Julie Jay: What if Ted ends up like me, worrying about everything?

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I HAVE always been a bit of an anxious Áine, but since becoming a parent, it is less a case of baseless fears and more a rational response to a world rife with hazards and imminent disaster.

While my natural default is to overthink, my husband would say that his natural default is to underthink, and I hope that our son’s disposition is to be found somewhere in the middle. Always a panicker, I have married a man so chilled out he once uttered the immortal line: ‘Julie, relax, it’s only a grill fire. There’s time there.’ What makes this more concerning is that Fred used to work as a lifeguard, but he constantly reminds me that even in emergencies, he never once dropped his
coffee.