I’m Married, but It Doesn’t Feel Like It

The Dr. John Delony Show

Ramsey Network

Relationships, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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0:00.0	We've been together for seven years, married before.
0:09.0	She decided that she wanted to be the sole provider of the family and delegate the job of parenting to me.
0:17.0	Wait, what?
0:19.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:20.0	What do you mean about you're the sole parent?
0:28.9	What up?
0:30.3	What up, what up?
0:31.0	This is John with the Dr. John Deloney's show coming to you from Nashville.
0:34.9	Real people with real problems.
0:37.3	Pulling up a seat and figuring out
0:38.5	what's the next right move in your marriage, your mental and emotional health, whatever you got
0:42.1	going on in your life, your kids, everything, politics, all of it. Give me a bus. If you want to be
0:48.6	on this show, actually don't give me a buzz, because this is the 21st century, as some of the guys
0:53.1	on the team say, click the link in the show notes, whatever that means. Let's go out to Birmingham, Alabama, and talk to Joshua. Hey, Joshua, what's up? How you doing, man? Doing great, brother. How are you? I'm all right. I think I'm just going to go right into my question. Let it rip.
1:11.6	All right.
1:16.2	So me and my wife, we have been together for seven years, married before.
1:27.5	And in that, she decided that she wanted to be the sole provider of the family and delegate the job of parenting to me.
1:30.1	And our time together.
1:30.6	Wait, what?
1:31.2	Yeah, yeah.
1:32.1	Yeah, yeah. The sole breadwinner, the sole earner, I don't have a, that's fine.
1:37.0	Couples decide that all the time.
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