75. Giving you boundaries, childcare, and PDA
Give It To Me Straight
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4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
You want to pack on the PDA? Nope, sorry, that’s a boundary. In this week’s episode, Alex and Jon discuss boundaries for your friends, family, and your significant others. Boundaries help keep a relationship healthy bu is too many just a relationship killer? They also have a real conversation about resentment during new parenthood. Having a baby isn’t hugs and kisses all the time!
0:00 - Intro
32:23 - My Friend’s Sister Snapped!
37:40 - My Husband Doesn’t Fit In
40:19 - I Want To Do A Maternity Shoot
43:18 - My Mom Needs Her Own Life
48:22 - Packing On The PDA
51:23 - Childcare or Momcare?
55:05 - Is My Honesty Too Much?
01:00:33 - Reading Your Secrets
01:03:06 - Recs of the Week
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:03.0 | My OB asked me today, she's like, how's John? |
| 0:05.8 | And I'm like, oh my God, he's great. |
| 0:07.4 | He cries every day. |
| 0:10.0 | She goes, does he, do we need to worry about postpartum depression? |
| 0:16.2 | I was like, he's fine. |
| 0:17.7 | He's just in love. |
| 0:23.9 | And welcome back to Give It To Me Straight. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm Alex. |
| 0:27.3 | And I'm John. |
| 0:28.2 | And we're your gracious, gracious, gracious, gracious host. |
| 0:33.9 | John, I just realized that by the time this episode comes out, it is Halloween and I forgot. |
| 0:40.2 | Oh, no. |
| 0:41.7 | So instead, I have my spooky luck with skeletons playing pickleball on it, which... |
| 0:48.0 | I like the felt fabric matted look. |
| 0:51.3 | Yeah, it's like a matte look. |
| 0:52.2 | I just realized they're playing pickleball. |
| 0:56.5 | I know. I didn't realize that either until i looked at it closely when i was putting coffee in it if we ever had any sort of schedule i would |
| 1:00.8 | say let's go i have it in my calendar go play pickleball bring us to the court how many pickleball paddles we |
| 1:06.4 | have to six unlimited we have six six feels excessive for people who never play. |
| 1:11.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.8 | I said I played pickleball once and everyone was like, here's your gift. |
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