Is My Boyfriend a Bad Parent?

The Dr. John Delony Show

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

4.8 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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0:00.0	So I have been dating a man who is divorced and he has three kids.
0:09.9	I'm realizing that we have very different parenting styles and I am trying to figure out if this can work long term.
0:16.6	Okay, so can I play the devil's advocate challenge game with you? Is that cool?
0:21.3	Of course.
0:22.1	I like that game.
0:28.8	What up?
0:30.0	What up?
0:30.4	This is John with the Dr. John Deloney's show.
0:33.5	Coming to you from Nashville, Tennessee, taking your calls on your relationships your life your marriage
0:37.8	whatever you got going on in your life i'm i'm here i'll sit with you and we'll figure out the next
0:43.6	right move thank you so much for for being with us let's go out to austin texas and talk to jay
0:50.3	what's up jay how we doing man i'm doing all right how are you i'm doing great what's up, Jay? How we doing, man? I'm doing all right. How are you? I'm doing great. What's up?
0:58.3	So I, well, first, thank you for your show because I think you're awesome.
1:05.3	Thank you so much. That's literally, I've been talking to Kelly for the last 30 minutes.
1:09.8	That's the nicest thing somebody has told me in a while, so thank you. Um, so I have been dating a man who is
1:17.1	divorced for about 10 months now, and he has three kids. And, uh, I met the kids about six months ago or so.
1:27.4	And, um, as I'm spending more time with the kids than him and his parents,
1:32.9	I'm realizing that we have very different parenting styles.
1:37.3	And I am trying to figure out the longevity of things and if this can work long term and how to move forward with that.
1:46.8	Oh, good one. Do you have kids too? I do not. So I was married for seven years. It was a traumatic
1:56.9	marriage. And I, because he turned up to be an addict and I was determined that I wasn't
2:08.4	going to have kids with them until he got clean. And he never did. So I do not have children,
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