Parenting Unfiltered: The Talk You Forgot Before Walking Down the Aisle
Cat & Nat Unfiltered
Cat & Nat
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🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this repeat episode we are bringing you another parenting conundrum: you decide to spend your life with someone… but how much of the really important stuff do you actually talk about first? Parenting styles? How you handle conflict? The tricky stuff—like your kid’s sexual orientation or dating rules for your teens? Most couples barely scratch the surface before walking down the aisle. You can bet we didn't!
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| 0:00.0 | I just think it's weird that men and women get together and then live together. And like nobody, there's no, like, there's no training for it. There's no, the one thing that I had was before I got married, I went and I talked to like the guy in the church. But really, he was like, like a normal just guy talking about relationships. And he was the only one who ever asked like about particular categories and have you two talked about |
| 0:21.7 | that like that it was the one time and I was like this is interesting but I also have a wedding day |
| 0:26.3 | book so now isn't the time to find out that like we're on a different page for finances you know |
| 0:32.4 | we're like this is happening I'm getting married no matter what yeah I don't care if I got to bring |
| 0:36.4 | this guy to the country, so... |
| 0:38.1 | This is happening. |
| 0:39.2 | So let's just wrap this up. We can just land this plane. In hindsight, it's like we should go back to that conversation. Oh, he was actually talking about important shit. We weren't interested, though. No. We were just going to get married. Drop it like a high. Drop it like a high. Natalie, what do I do? |
| 0:57.1 | I hope it's a hot. Drop like a tie. Natalie, what do I do? |
| 0:55.1 | I hope it's giddy-gitty. |
| 0:59.4 | This is your Monday parenting all shit parenting relationships. |
| 1:03.1 | I was going to say I watched, I finished, I almost finished my book on relationships. |
| 1:11.6 | Minds are fucked up. |
| 1:13.8 | Relationships are fucked up. |
| 1:15.9 | People in relationships together are fucked up. |
| 1:18.6 | Or intricate, complicated and interesting. |
| 1:24.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.3 | I mean, it's a, it's very, |
| 1:27.1 | everything in life is complicated. |
| 1:29.2 | Just think about us as humans being alive. |
| 1:31.9 | If you, a couple up with someone, |
| 1:34.2 | that's a complicated process. |
| 1:36.0 | It's so much more complicated than you ever think it is. |
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