Why Parenting Is So Hard For Our Generation & How to Keep Your Marriage "Spicy"
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, John and Vanessa talk about the struggles of parenting in today's day and age. They also talk about how to keep your relationship/ marriage "spicy" after having kids, and have a healthy social life and identity outside of your children.
Roughly ten minutes of self help in a shot glass. If you're looking for a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place. Marriage family therapist and best-selling author, John Kim, shares his life and love revelations as well as insights from his sessions. He pulls the curtain back and documents his journey as a therapist but more importantly, as a human being.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own |
| 0:04.3 | rebirth many years ago and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life |
| 0:08.9 | lessons and revelations. I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose |
| 0:16.2 | because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated. |
| 0:22.0 | So I just got back from a six-day trip from Mexico and I'm literally doing a walk and |
| 0:31.6 | talk as I try to find my partner to pull her into this conversation because the people that were there were a lot of parents and there's her brother half naked. There's she |
| 0:46.4 | brother half naked. There she is. Okay, so I'm going to pull her into this |
| 0:50.7 | conversation because it's, I had some |
| 0:54.7 | revelations about parenting. Okay. And we went to a wedding in Mexico and there |
| 1:01.8 | were a lot of parents and for many of us it was our first time |
| 1:07.3 | away from our child for six days and both parents being gone and one of the things that I thought about was |
| 1:18.9 | this generation mostly Vanessa's since she's a millennial and I'm more Gen Z. |
| 1:25.6 | No. |
| 1:26.6 | Gen X. |
| 1:27.6 | Yes, Gen X. Definitely not. |
| 1:29.6 | Definitely not. |
| 1:30.6 | There's this illusion that because I think a lot of |
| 1:36.2 | a lot of millennials are talking about how hard parenting is which we also have talked about. |
| 1:44.1 | And I think it's not that it wasn't hard for our parents. |
| 1:49.4 | They just never talked about it, right? |
| 1:51.2 | I think for them, I think the millennials are the first generation finally speaking out about what is hard and I think for our parents, it just as hard if not harder they just never said anything |
| 2:06.8 | you know and I think that's what's happening so then it gives the illusion that |
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