C&F After Dark: Modeling Healthy Love

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Elizabeth, Lucy and Zak get together for our annual After Dark episode. This year, Lucy’s got a question about showing affection in front of the kids… and figuring out how to demonstrate what a healthy relationship looks like without making it weird. If you want to catch up on last year’s After Dark episodes, do it: we talked about sex and did couple’s counseling. And after that discussion, we’ll of course circle up for a round of triumphs and fails. Join us on Facebook and email us at [email protected] to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get to hang out with us on the Plus Playground every week for a whole additional grab-bag of content — and you’ll get an ad-free experience across the network. And you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Care and Feeding. Sign up now at slate.com/careplus – or try it out on Apple Podcasts. Podcast produced by Maura Currie, with special thanks to babysitter extraordinaire Rosemary Belson this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	This episode may contain explicit language. And we're talking about romance here, so you've been warned.
0:45.9	Wow. And we're talking about romance here, so you've been warned. Welcome to Karen Feeding After Dark, the annual show where we remember that romance and parenting can, in fact, coexist.
0:54.1	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the family
0:55.8	travel blog Dutch Gutsch goose. I'm the mom to Henry who's 12, Oliver who's 10, and Teddy who's 8.
1:01.5	We live in Tokyo, Japan. Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez. I host another podcast, the Mamacita Rica podcast.
1:08.1	I'm mother to Amelia, who's 14, and Avery, who's 12, and we live in Miami. I'm mother to Amelia who's 14 and Avery who's 12 and we live in Miami.
1:13.8	I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast also. It's called The Best Advice Show and I'm Dad to Noah
1:19.3	who's seven and Ami who's four. Currently we live in Amsterdam. Today is the day before
1:26.0	Valentine's Day. So as has become our tradition, we're talking about
1:30.9	romance. Our question for the day actually comes from Lucy, who was musing on this topic in the
1:37.1	group chat recently. What should we do when our kids are grossed out by their parents showing
1:42.9	each other affection.
1:47.3	How do we model healthy relationships without making it weird?
1:51.4	There's a ton to talk about, and afterwards, of course, we're going to circle up for a round of triumphs and fails.
1:52.7	So let's get going.
1:53.5	We're going to take a quick break, but about romancing your partner when you also live with children.
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