DOD185: "My Partner Won't Get Help and I Feel Stuck..."
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The dads do their best to help a listener with a tough marriage/parenting problem. Their partner behaves terribly both with them and with the kids, but blames it on self-diagnosed mental health issues. Where is the line between accommodating and being taken advantage of?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing. |
| 0:09.7 | I know now what I can offer you that no one else can. Complete and undependent. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm a man. I'm sensitive. I need to feel loved. I need to be desired. |
| 0:23.1 | Yelling is the only part of being a father that I enjoy. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that's unafraid to wash its ass. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. |
| 0:38.4 | We're taking a bold stance. Is there anything worse than the, I'm going to say, annual revelation of horror that just glides into the internet where we realize like 40% of men don't wipe or, you know, six out of 11 men have never, |
| 0:57.4 | they don't know you're supposed to use the bristly end of a toothbrush, |
| 1:00.1 | whatever the fuck it is. |
| 1:01.9 | Is there anything that more verifies for you why Donald Trump is president |
| 1:06.6 | than the yearly, I ain't washing that conversation we have to have as an internet culture. |
| 1:13.4 | Dude, I was blown away when I found on the internet, like all these women saying like, yeah, |
| 1:19.3 | my boyfriend thinks it's gay to wash his ass. |
| 1:22.8 | So insane. |
| 1:23.7 | It has to be fake. |
| 1:24.6 | To wash your ass! |
| 1:25.3 | It has to be. |
| 1:26.5 | Well, that's the other thing too, right? |
| 1:29.4 | If it's fake, can we talk about how fucking insane it is that so many people are just like, |
| 1:36.0 | you know what I'm going to do today? |
| 1:37.4 | A little creative writing exercise with human existence, because I'm the main character |
| 1:41.9 | and everyone else is a chat bot that I just get to fuck around with whatever I feel like. |
| 1:46.9 | Like it's almost worse to pretend you think washing your ass is gay than thinking washing your ass is gay. |
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