From Addiction to Freedom: A Dad Tired Listener’s Story
Dad Tired
Jerrad Lopes
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
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Most men don’t believe freedom is possible.
They assume they’ll carry shame, addiction, and secrets for the rest of their lives.
That was his story too.
For years, he struggled silently with porn, lust, and shame—even while loving his wife, following Jesus, and doing everything he thought a “good Christian man” was supposed to do.
Until one conversation changed everything.
In this powerful and deeply honest episode, a Dad Tired listener shares his journey from secrecy to freedom, from hiding to truth, and from addiction to healing.
You’ll hear:
• The moment he realized his marriage was in danger
• Why white-knuckling never leads to real freedom
• How honest community changed everything
• The surprising cost of becoming a truth teller
• What freedom actually feels like on the other side
This episode is for the man who feels stuck.
For the man who thinks he’ll never change.
For the man who’s tired of hiding.
Freedom is possible.
Strong families begin with healed men.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by our Dadology Parenting Conference in San Diego. |
| 0:04.7 | Coming up in April, if you're not signed up for our newsletter, you are likely missing out on |
| 0:08.9 | lots of events that we do throughout the year. |
| 0:10.8 | We have this parenting conference. |
| 0:12.2 | We also have an annual retreat in the fall. |
| 0:14.6 | We do family camps in the summer, father and son trips in Alaska. |
| 0:18.3 | And I'm not supposed to tell you guys this yet, but we're actually |
| 0:20.9 | planning a family mission trip that you can literally bring the entire family on. It's going to be |
| 0:26.5 | incredible. More details on that coming soon, but you can get information on all that. Click the link |
| 0:30.8 | in the show notes to go to dadtire.com forward slash subscribe so you can be signed up for our email |
| 0:35.1 | list and stay up to date on all the things that we have |
| 0:37.9 | going on. I just want to give some context before we dive into this interview. I had a guy reach out |
| 0:44.2 | to me recently and sent me an email about some life change that he's experiencing and just |
| 0:49.4 | asked him kind of randomly, hey man, would you be willing to share your story with the rest of the |
| 0:53.9 | dad tired guys? I know that it took a lot of courage for him to come on the show, but I really |
| 0:58.4 | believe that his story is going to be helpful for you. I love talking to authors and we've had |
| 1:03.0 | celebrities and musicians and athletes and all kinds of different people on the show. All of those |
| 1:08.4 | interviews, I think, have been really helpful. But there's |
| 1:11.5 | something about a guy who's very relatable, who's like the rest of us, who's just working hard |
| 1:16.7 | and trying to be a man of faithfulness, he's trying to be a good dad and a husband, and he's just |
| 1:21.3 | grinding out the discipleship journey in real life. And I think all of us can relate to that. |
| 1:25.9 | So I'm really convinced that today's |
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