The Perfect Husband
The Dating Detectives
Dear Media
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Dating Detectives, the hosts sit down with Sydnee, a resilient mother whose seemingly safe, stable relationship with a “gentle giant” slowly unravels into a chilling double life filled with deception, manipulation, and emotional abuse. What begins as a story of healing and unexpected love takes a dark turn as Sydnee uncovers years of secret behavior, gaslighting, and control—but by then, she’s already given up her independence to become a stay-at-home mom, leaving her financially and socially trapped in a life she can’t escape. As she fights to protect her children and rebuild her autonomy from the ground up, Sydnee shares a powerful story of survival that exposes how abuse doesn’t always look the way we expect—and how quickly trust, love, and dependence can become a cage if you’re not careful.
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| 0:00.0 | The following program contains names, places, and events that have been anonymized or fictionalized for the purposes of protection and safety. |
| 0:08.8 | The following program is provided for entertainment purposes only, and any commentary from the hosts are strictly conjecture and should not be held as making any definitive statements about the truth or identity of any particular individuals or circumstances. |
| 0:21.2 | If you or a loved one are involved in an abusive relationship, |
| 0:24.2 | please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-723 for support. |
| 0:40.6 | Happy dating detectives Monday. |
| 0:42.0 | Hello. |
| 0:44.2 | We had a fun weekend. |
| 0:45.9 | You had a Barbie convention. |
| 0:47.1 | I had self-defense. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm so proud of you. |
| 0:49.8 | Hannah, |
| 0:51.6 | I love that you're doing these self-defense classes. |
| 0:53.3 | It's called Don't Get Killed Club. And Hannah has done an amazing job of creating this space where she's making self-defense normal and cool and encouraging you. Just do it. Like it doesn't have to be like. You don't have to be a boxer. Yeah. But we do need to practice. I'm literally just a girl. Yeah, we just got to practice. |
| 1:11.5 | But I'm excited. |
| 1:13.7 | I mean, we're also, we'll do these announcements. |
| 1:14.9 | Then we'll get to the episode. |
| 1:19.9 | CrimeCon in Vegas will be there taking of other conventions. |
| 1:21.9 | So that's the end of May. |
| 1:29.0 | And if you want to come hang out with us and also if you're a true crime person, like you got to go. It's the last weekend in May. It's in Vegas at the, is it the Caesar's Palace? I think so. And it's going to be so much fun. |
| 1:34.7 | We're going to be there with a booth and we have some fun surprises for you. So please come and see us. |
| 1:41.0 | It's going to be so cool. Yay. And that's that. Patreon also. Join |
| 1:46.1 | Patreon. We love Patreon. I'm sorry, I'm flying through these announcements without grace. |
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