Family Stresses Me Out

Sean of the South

Sean Dietrich

Personal Journals, S-town, Music, Alabama, Garrison Keillor, Storytelling, Story, Garden And Gun, Southern Living, Serial, Southern Culture, S Town, Old Radio, Lake Wobegon, Stories, Prairie Home Companion, Arts, Society & Culture, Live From Here, Story Podcast

5.0 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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To subscribe to Sean's daily blog, https://seandietrich.com/subscribe/ For information on events or other Sean of the South news, visit https://seandietrich.com/ To sponsor an episode, email LauraBeth@SeanDietrich.com Sean Dietrich is a columnist, humorist, multi-instrumentalist, and stand-up storyteller known for his commentary on life in the American South. His work has appeared in Newsweek, Southern Living, Reader's Digest, Garden and Gun, and his column appears weekly in newspapers thr...

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0:33.0	Sean South starts now.
0:40.3	Yeah. South starts now. I have here. I have here, letter from 19-year-old Erin who lives in Bristol, Virginia.
1:03.0	Dear Sean, she begins. I want to be happy, but I'm not. My family is stressing me out big time, especially my mom.
1:13.4	My therapist actually recommended that I write to you,
1:17.0	seeing if you have any insightful thoughts about happiness.
1:21.8	Well, dear Aaron, my first insightful thought is fire your therapist, because if he or she is
1:31.4	recommending that you reach out to me, your life is in serious trouble.
1:36.8	If you want pure happiness, however, you really should visit the guest laundry facility
1:41.3	at my hotel, which is where I am right now as I write these words
1:45.2	that I will eventually deliver to you.
1:48.9	The guest laundry facility in my hotel is a room about the size of a residential bathroom,
1:54.2	and I'm trapped in this room with an all-boy soccer team.
1:58.9	There must be 841 little boys crammed in this space. They are loud, and they
2:05.7	are unbelievably happy. Testosterone waves crash against the walls, compromising the structural
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