How to Approach Your Wife When You're in Crisis
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
How should you approach your wife when you're in crisis? When we men go into crisis, we have a tendency to shut down. We don't want to appear like we don't have it all under control. We don't want our spouses to worry. Some might think that sharing all of our feelings of anxiety, stress, anger, or overwhelm with our spouse is the logical alternative, but this isn't the answer either. There's a fine line between what and how we as husbands should share bad news with our wives.
Today, we have Alliance Member Alex Vanhouten on the show. He is the creator of Defining Dadbod, which aims to create a legacy of health and fitness for our kids. But he wasn't always an entrepreneur. A few months ago, Alex was a successful employee who terminated from his job without any warning. Alex's wife is a stay-at-home mom and he didn't know what to do as the sole support for a single-income household. He tells us what he did before explaining his crisis to his wife to make sure that they both could cope with it in best way possible.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:28.3 | What's up guys? What's up guys? |
| 0:29.3 | Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. |
| 0:31.1 | This is Thursday Throwdown, |
| 0:32.8 | episode 113. |
| 0:36.0 | Glad you guys are here. |
| 0:37.0 | Hope you're enjoying your week. |
| 0:38.6 | We're at the tail end of the week, |
| 0:40.4 | and we are also on a holiday week. |
| 0:42.4 | So I hope you guys enjoyed your 4th of July. |
| 0:45.8 | I know I did it was awesome I mean how can it not be awesome when you have four boys |
| 0:50.2 | who are right at that age that they think fireworks are like the most amazing thing ever. |
| 0:55.4 | So we thoroughly enjoyed our holiday and I hope you guys are too. |
| 0:59.3 | I'm sure you guys might be enjoying some barbecues, some families, all that good stuff. |
| 1:04.5 | It's all about quality time. |
| 1:06.2 | So, thanks for taking a few minutes to be with us today. |
| 1:09.2 | If you're new here, Thursday Throwdown |
| 1:11.2 | is our, what we call our shorter show where I am |
| 1:14.1 | absolutely always now it seems like interviewing a man who is in the trenches |
| 1:18.9 | interviewing guys who are literally just trying to live lives of significance who are trying to |
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