DOD277: This Husband's In the Doghouse

Dear Old Dads

Thomas Smith

Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The dads spend today's episode exploring a few different areas of concern from a listener email. But at it's core: how do you negotiate one partner's needs and the other partner's hurt?

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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.
0:28.2	Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that's barking up the wrong tree. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, hello. Hey, just
0:40.9	asking, is Mother's Day coming up again? No, well, yes, in a year. In a year, you've got
0:46.0	years. Here's the thing that maybe, maybe you need to understand. Yeah. Go ahead and jump into the
0:51.5	idea phase. I just need to be really sure that you know this is a yearly thing.
0:57.3	This will every year.
0:58.1	Yeah, that's what they say.
0:59.8	Yeah.
1:01.5	What do they mean?
1:03.6	These are questions.
1:05.5	They don't want to be.
1:05.9	A yearly anniversary outrageous.
1:09.3	That's crazy.
1:10.6	Well, that's the same date every year, though.
1:13.6	All right.
1:15.1	No, that makes sense.
1:16.5	It's the Greek Orthodox nature of Mother's Day.
1:20.5	How could I know such a thing?
1:22.6	It's not like I have the entire internet in my pocket.
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