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The Dr. John Delony Show

My Boyfriend’s Fame Is Derailing Our Relationship

The Dr. John Delony Show

Ramsey Network

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

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm wondering how to navigate through an unsure season with my boyfriend, as he's recently made the decision to put everything into his music career.

0:14.7

This happens whether you're 22. This happens when you've been married to some regular old middle manager who suddenly gets to be the vice president.

0:21.4

And so the question I always want to ask is,

0:27.5

What's going on?

0:30.0

This is John with the Dr. John Deloney's show coming to you from Nashville, Tennessee, amidst the world on fire.

0:38.8

Here's my promise.

0:39.6

I'll sit with you in the smoke and the ash of what's going on in your home,

0:44.0

in your heart and mind, in your marriages, and your relationships with your kids,

0:48.1

your neighborhoods, wherever.

0:50.2

And we will figure out what's the next right move.

0:54.0

And by the way, I'm in this too. I'm a husband trying to figure out what's the next right move and by the way i'm in this too i'm a husband

0:57.2

trying to figure out how to do that right i'm a dad of two young kids i'm trying to run a business

1:03.7

i'm trying to be a good team member like i'm in the middle of all that too and so it's not like

1:08.2

i'm coming at people from above with all of this like like, wisdom from the stars. This is me pulling up a seat next to you at the table saying, yeah, me too, man, let's figure this out. So if you want to be on the show, if you want to pull up a seat and have a conversation, go to john Deloney.com slash ask. That's a D-E-L-O-N-Y.com slash ask. All right, let's go out to Ontario, Canada and talk to Ella, Ella, Ella, what's up, Ella? Hi, how are you, Dr. John? I'm good. How are you? Good. It's such an honor to talk to you. My boyfriend actually showed me this show, and now I'm the one calling in with a. Very well, you're dating somebody very wise. Well done.

1:45.8

That's awesome. Thanks for being in our gang. What's up?

1:49.5

So just to sum it up, I'm wondering how to navigate through an unsure season with my boyfriend

1:56.0

as he's recently made the decision to put everything all into his music career.

2:03.1

Tell me more about that.

2:05.9

So basically, my boyfriend and I have been together since we were 16 and 17.

2:11.2

We went to the same high school, grew up in the same town, and then started at the same university, only an hour from our hometown. Although we're still

2:19.4

young, we've always been goal oriented towards marriage and starting a family. Because of the

2:23.8

unstable environment I grew up in, I've always been in more of a hurry than he was, but we talked

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