Should I Get Back Together With My Child's Father? #HMAY Ep. 269
How Married Are You?
Glen & Yvette Henry
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
We’re talking to a solo mom who wrote in real honest: should she try again with her son’s dad? We unpack trust after hurt, how healing changes what you want, and why “for the baby” is not a dating strategy. We keep it tender, tell the truth, and give some practical next steps. Plus, Chocolate Baby Storytime, cleanse life, and Lily the dog leaving sticky-note reminders like a tiny furry manager.
This one is warm, real, and rooted in wisdom. Pull up a chair.
✨ What You’ll Hear
• Naming hurt without living in it
• Signs of real change vs wishful thinking
• Co-parenting well even if romance is paused
• Why a no-dating season can be a reset for your soul
• What a rebuild plan should include if you try again
• A marriage quote that reframes starting over with the same person
• Community updates, Patreon goals, and how to get plugged in
📚 Resources & Links
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The more work I do on myself, I hate him less. |
| 0:03.7 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:06.1 | That, that, that says so much. |
| 0:08.3 | It really does. |
| 0:10.1 | Hello, my name is Mrs. Melanin. |
| 0:22.5 | And I'm Belief Mel. |
| 0:23.4 | And we're here with episode 269 of How Married Are You? |
| 0:28.1 | Okay, my name Belief. |
| 0:29.3 | This is Yvette. |
| 0:29.9 | We married 15 years. |
| 0:31.8 | In California, we got four. |
| 0:34.1 | Relationship scary is very necessary. |
| 0:36.7 | We share love our struggles we ask how married |
| 0:39.1 | every two day and third day shoddy if you're listening you're in the wedding party |
| 0:44.5 | it's okay if you want to put your hands up you've got the questions we got the answers |
| 0:49.6 | it's chocolate baby story time chocolate baby story time it's chocolate baby story time Chocolate baby story time |
| 0:54.8 | It's chocolate baby story time |
| 0:57.5 | One, two, three, and |
| 1:02.6 | It's chocolate baby story time |
| 1:05.5 | All right |
| 1:08.0 | You want to talk about it? |
| 1:13.1 | There's so many things there's so many things |
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