RERUN - Supporting Your Partner’s Mental Health and Parenting with Intention with My Husband, Joe
Conversations with Cam
Cameron Oaks Rogers
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In this episode (originally aired on 1/22/25), my husband, Joe, joins me to talk about parenting, marriage, and how our relationship has evolved over the years from dating in high school to being parents of two. Joe shares his perspective on having a partner who struggles with mental health, how he best supports me, and reflects on whether he feels guilt or FOMO as a father when he gets time to himself. We discuss our division of labor and how we delineate tasks, how we deal with the mental overload of parenting, and how we moved through our “roommate phase” during postpartum. We also talk about advice for parents with kids having a “preferential parent” phase, the principles we try to live by as a family, working through disagreements while actively parenting, and much more.
Key Takeaway / Points:
Our relationship journey, from dating in high school to our experience in college
Joe’s perspective on having a partner who struggles with their mental health
Advice for those with partners struggling with ADHD and/or emotional overwhelm
On whether he feels guilt as a father when he gets time to himself
On feeling FOMO with our kids and witnessing special moments
On our division of labor and how we delineate tasks
On describing the mental load of parenting to someone who doesn’t understand
On moving through the roommate phase
What Joe learned from my postpartum journey
On his favorite parts about being a parent and the most challenging
On Joe’s experience with the transition from one to two kids
Advice for parents experiencing a preferential parent phase
On the principles we try to live by as a family
On working through resentment and arguments while actively parenting
On Joe’s unique relationship with my mom
How Joe feels about my job
What we’re most proud of each other for
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Conversations with Cam. This rerun on our mini like hiatus is an |
| 0:08.2 | episode from this year in January with none other than my rock, my favorite person, my best friend, |
| 0:15.7 | my husband. And originally this was going to be later and a different episode was going to be this week, |
| 0:21.2 | but we moved the other episode and I swapped this one in. |
| 0:24.7 | And then he just gave me a hug and was like, happy dating anniversary. |
| 0:27.8 | And I realized that today, well, not today when you're listening to this, but last week, |
| 0:34.3 | when you're listening to this, is our dating anniversary of 18 years, which is |
| 0:41.1 | fucking insane to me, like utterly insane. |
| 0:47.1 | Crazy, crazy, crazy times. |
| 0:48.7 | And we do talk in this episode about like how long, you know, just the fact that we've been |
| 0:53.6 | together for so long and going on |
| 0:55.3 | breaks and what that was like and getting back together, I think. I'm pretty sure we talk about it. |
| 1:00.0 | And really a lot of this episode talks about how he supports my mental health and navigating |
| 1:05.9 | that as a partner of someone with anxiety and ADHD and a slew of mental health struggles |
| 1:14.9 | because I honestly think he is so freaking good at it. |
| 1:20.6 | Like I tell him all the time. |
| 1:22.4 | I'm so grateful for him and his patience and his willingness to do anything and everything and how much time and |
| 1:36.3 | effort he puts into supporting my mental health. And transparently, it's something that I am not always the most understanding when the tables |
| 1:47.7 | are turned and not that they're turned often, but when they are, it's something I need to work on. |
| 1:52.0 | So I really just admire him for this, among many other incredible traits that he carries. |
| 1:59.9 | This episode kind of goes into all of that, our relationship, |
| 2:04.8 | how he helps me, advice, the transition of one to two kids, kind of everything under the sun. |
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