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Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on IHeartRadio.

I'm kicking it off today with one of these advice segments that you all seem to enjoy so much.

And if you've got questions, write in at

Carol Markowitz Show at gmail.com. And I'll also post an anonymous form from time to time on X.

My guest today, to answer the question that I received is the co-author of the book I wrote,

Stolen Youth, my friend Bethany Mandel, who does the fantastic substack,

The Mom Wars, which you should go sign up for right now. Hi, Bethany. So nice to have you on.

It's also a podcast if people like podcasts. It's also a podcast. Yes, absolutely. We have to tape.

It's great. The Mom Wars is so good. We read it in our house. I've had my kids read some of the

pieces. It's really fantastic. Bethany does a fantastic job there. All right. I got this question

and I was literally like I have to bring on Bethany to answer it because it, well, let's get into

it. You'll see why. You didn't even preview it for me. I know. I didn't. I like the not previewing it. Buck Sexton, who comes on here a lot to answer questions, he doesn't like to have the previews. I'm kind of into it now, too, just to, you know, go in blind. All right, here we go. Hi, Carol. I've been listening to your show since the first episode, and I love the advice segments. I wish you did more of them. All right, maybe we will. I never thought I'd write in, but I feel like I'm losing my mind and need your thoughts. My husband and I live in a small city where he grew up, where both committed Christians and moved here to be closer to his church. About a year ago, he stopped wanting to go as regularly.

This was a big change for us, but I let it slide.

I still took the kids now age four and two most Sundays.

Our plan was for me to homeschool the kids,

and now my husband is saying he doesn't want to do that anymore either.

Writing this all out now, I realize he sounds

erratic, but he really is not. He's a great man, works hard, home every night, nothing strange.

When we talk about it, he says he still feels close to God without church. And about the homeschooling,

he says he wants the boys to go to the same small Christian school he went to because it's a great community.

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