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I don't know. What's up, gentlemen? Hey, welcome here to the Dad Edge. If you are an F3 guy, if you're a part of the F3 community, you'll want to listen to this episode for a big,

big reason. Also, if you're having any type of power struggles with your kids, like you can't get them to brush their teeth, they won't go to bed on time, they won't come home for curfew

on time, all these different things. This episode, you're going to want to hear it as well. And also,

finally, if you feel a bit stuck

in your relationship, if you feel like, you know, your relationship with your wife is more like a

roommate type of a situation where you're just like, man, like, I feel like we're good co-parents,

we're kind of a good team, we're friends, but man, the intimacy, the connection, the deep connection is just lagging. I literally feel like I live with this woman, but the intimacy just isn't there anymore. And you're probably even like laying next to her some nights like I used to and laying next to Jessica wondering like, should I even touch her tonight? You know, should I even make a move? Should I try? Or am I just going to be rejected again? Or are she just going to, you know, want to be intimate for out of obligation? There were so many things that I was missing outside the bedroom that were really, really affecting inside the bedroom. And this, that's why today is it's all about what is coming in the dad edge and what we're going to be doing about these things. So gentlemen, welcome here. Welcome to the dad edge podcast. I'm Larry Hagner, your host and founder of this podcast, this show and movement. And as promised, what I'm going to be doing in 2026 is I'm going to be giving you guys a bird's eye view of things that are coming up in the dad edge group for my last episode of the month and that this is the last episode of february so you'll find all the show

notes if you guys go the day for my last episode of the month. And this is the last episode of February.

So you'll find all the show notes if you guys go to dad edge.com forward slash 1445.

Somebody mentioning a lot of links.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to start out here, guys, with for those of you guys who are impacted by power struggles and not that i have any of

those with four boys at all they brush their teeth without any problems they come home on time all

the time they they gladly with with a smile on their face clean up their rooms no problem do the

dishes their own laundry and and empty the dishwasher cut grass and sweep and mop and all they good stuff. And they do these things with a smile. I'm totally lying. They don't do that. But what we are doing, and it's something that my wife and I've been doing for quite some time, is we approach this a bit different because we've learned different things. And that's one of the reasons that, quite frankly, we don't have a whole lot of power struggles in our house anymore, knock on wood. Now I say that and I'll be like, tomorrow something will happen and it'll spin us up into a three-month season of us being in a power struggle with one of our kids. So I'm not immune to this stuff by any means, but I'm just saying as of right now, we're doing pretty good with that. But we also, I think, do a lot of the right things. But my cheat code is I get to ask all these experts, all these questions and learn. So it's one of the things, one of the greatest things about being on, you know, on the podcast as far as being the host is you get to learn all of these things. You get to implement them right away into your family. And after almost 1,500 episodes, we've been, we've implemented quite a bit.

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