I Overheard My Mom Bad-Mouthing My Wife

The Dr. John Delony Show

Ramsey Network

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

4.8 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0	I was doing some side work for my aunt.
0:07.8	She had been calling me all day, and one of the times that she called, it ended up being
0:11.5	a butt dial.
0:12.5	I heard my wife's name, so it was an eight-minute conversation that I listened to.
0:16.2	Damn, Gina, they did this, dude.
0:23.0	They went after your wife.
0:30.8	What's up?
0:33.5	This is John with the Dr. John Deloney show.
0:57.1	Taking your calls from all over planet Earth, real people going through real tough stuff. And my promise says I'll sit here with you. I've been sitting with hurting people for more than two decades trying to figure out what's the next right move. You want to be on the show? Go to John Deloney, D-E-L-O-N-Y. John Deloney.com slash ask. A-S-K. Let's go out to Raleigh, North Carolina and talk to Chris what's up Chris hey dr. John how are you I'm good brother what's up with you oh man I'm trying not to
1:03.7	sweat my butt off out here it's hot it's hot it's hot you want to keep your butt that's
1:08.0	an important part of human anatomy but yeah it is it is hot up there, dude. It's hot, hot, hot. What's up, man? Well, I'll just kind of get right into my question. I was doing some side work, some extra work on the weekends, and I was working for my aunt. And she had been calling me all day just to kind of check in and see how the work was going and
1:29.2	one of the times that she called it ended up being a butt dial and picked it up said hello and
1:35.7	I heard my name and then I heard my wife's name in the background and realized it was a butt dial
1:41.7	and so I thought okay maybe I should hang up. But then hearing my name and
1:45.6	my wife, I decided to listen in. We got to keep listening to this one. Yeah. Yeah. So it was an eight-minute
1:52.1	conversation that I listened to. And it was basically my aunt and my mother talking about what my wife and I should do differently, about how my wife
2:05.3	should work more, about how she should just get over the mental illness that she deals with,
2:10.1	and how she, you know, they're just better ways that she could parent our kids.
2:14.5	Damn, Gina, dude!
2:18.8	They went after your wife.
2:21.2	They did, yeah.
2:24.1	What an unfortunate button.
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