DOD224: Knowing When to Walk Away
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
A listener writes in looking for advice on approaching their relationship with a parent when the parent won't accept them for who they are. After exploring if the listener could have offered more in helping their parent understand, the dads reflect on a tough question - how do we know when it's time to let go of relationships that are hurting us? Then, in the patron-only story, Eli shares a heartwarming and grateful observation.
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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. |
| 0:28.7 | Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that's not playing Monument Valley. |
| 0:33.9 | I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Eli Bosnick and Thomas Smith. Hello, |
| 0:38.5 | gentlemen. Hello. Welcome back to Tom's Joy Watch. |
| 0:43.3 | Juj, you, do, you, joy. Yes, that's right. Before we get into our episode today, I want to talk |
| 0:49.9 | about what our podcast has become when we decided to start dear old dance. I wasn't sure what |
| 0:54.9 | the show would be. How much would we have to say about parenting and the experience of being |
| 1:00.3 | fathers? Turns out it was about 22 episodes. So what would the show be about from Vince on? Well, |
| 1:07.5 | as you know, if you are a regular listener to our radio program, it's been about |
| 1:11.7 | Tom's eventual realization that he is in the bad place. |
| 1:18.0 | The best possible example of that. Tom, what happened this week? Tell us a little about |
| 1:22.6 | what it happened. Just, like, listeners to this show will know that I am not much of a gamer. |
| 1:27.8 | I don't play video games. |
| 1:29.6 | I don't do a lot of casual gaming either, but I did stumble across a few years ago, |
| 1:35.0 | Monument Valley, which I thought was really fucking cool and really beautiful. |
| 1:39.8 | And, like, it, like, is really relaxing and calming. |
| 1:43.3 | It's a very chill game. It's really cool. I can't recommend it enough. There's Monument Valley 1 and Monument Valley 2. And they came out with Monument Valley three. And I was all excited. It was like available on like the Netflix suite of apps, which is annoying and obnoxious, but like fucking whatever. And I got it and I started playing it and I played through I don't know |
| 2:02.4 | most of it but not to the end of it and then I went to open it up it's just fucking gone it's |
| 2:08.5 | fucking wiped out of the app store it's you can't it's just fuck you now that's what it is |
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