Love Makes A Family, With Linda Fruits and Maddy Gross
Marriage and Martinis
Adam Silverstein
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
It's pride month, but it's always a good time to celebrate all the love. This episode has no shortage of real, honest, deep, intense love, and what beautiful things can happen when someone stops letting society dictate how their life should look, and starts looking inward to make big decisions. Danielle was so excited to catch up with her friend, Linda, to get caught up on the impactful and enormous changes that have occurred since she came out over two years ago. Danielle was even more thrilled that Linda's partner, Maddy, (who happens to be pregnant with Linda's ex-husband/co-parent's baby) was gracious enough to join the conversation. They catch up on the huge events that have taken place, including:
- How Linda and Maddy met and fell in love
- What life looks like now, while they are living with Chris, Linda's ex-husband and their kids
- What made them ask Chris if he would be willing to be the biological father of Maddy's baby, and what his response was
- How people react to their "atypical" family
- What it's like living in Florida now that so much anti-LGBTQ legislation is being passed, and if they plan to move
- What they will tell the new baby's older siblings concerning why their family looks different from other families
- How they deal with negative looks, attention, and feedback concerning their unique lifestyle
Linda and Maddy have recently been feature in People magazine and other media outlets to highlight their love story. But only on this episode will you get the raw, complete details of how it all happened.
Check out Linda's instagram @fruitsofmotherhood to follow along their journey from here.
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| 0:00.0 | We'll see you in the next video! |
| 0:30.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to Marriage in Martinez. First I have to say Happy Pride Month. |
| 0:35.0 | And we have done quite a few episodes in our four and a half years during the podcast. |
| 0:43.0 | Having to do with LGBTQ and Pride, and especially as you know, we are the parents of a lesbian daughter. |
| 0:54.0 | And that has been really an incredibly amazing, wonderful, informative journey for us as parents. |
| 1:09.0 | And it's taught us so much about what it means to be unconditionally accepting of people. |
| 1:17.0 | And has sort of shifted our whole life philosophy. |
| 1:24.0 | And I guess one thing that I've learned in my 45 years on this planet is that if someone is doing something that isn't bothering you, |
| 1:37.0 | that isn't hurting you, that doesn't affect your life in any way, leave it alone. |
| 1:45.0 | Either be supportive or just let it be, right? |
| 1:51.0 | It's like how you say with people on the internet, you know, why do they stop and say mean things when they could just keep scrolling. |
| 2:00.0 | I feel that way in life too. |
| 2:02.0 | I'm always so baffled by why anyone wants to make any kind of marginalized community, even feel less safe than they already do, less understood than they already do. |
| 2:22.0 | Why? Why are we doing that? |
| 2:25.0 | I don't understand it with all of the issues and problems in the world today. |
| 2:30.0 | I just cannot understand why anybody doesn't leave marginalized communities alone or help them. |
| 2:38.0 | And I feel that way very much about the LGBTQ community, I feel like why is more love not good love, right? |
| 2:47.0 | That's all we want in the world, more love. |
| 2:51.0 | So to me, it's a no-brainer, let people love in the way that they feel is right, is necessary. |
| 3:01.0 | And if they're not hurting anybody, then let's just support it. |
| 3:07.0 | So anyway, now that I've given my little spiel at the beginning of Pride Month, I have to say that I was so excited to talk to my friend Linda Frutes |
| 3:18.0 | and her partner, Maddie, and sitting down with the two of them for me was really special because I do worry about my daughter one day, being able to live a life that's full and magical and accepting of others from others. |
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