In this episode I am SUPER SURE that I don’t care about what my dad thinks. We interrupt every topic to repeat that we’re excited to live together, and I get minorly butthurt before discussing Maslow’s Hierarchy and how the needs of an individual mesh with the needs of a partner. An update comes on the Brother who overdosed and the relational mess that comes afterwards. We also dote on Handsome Man’s therapist, ex-sister-in-law, and best friend and the importance of personal experience vs. gained kn

Todayyyyy we talk about the fact that “crisis” is a relative concept, lol. We get mildly inflammatory about whether drag shows allow men to profit off of feminine sexuality while female sex workers are persecuted for it. The main event of is a discussion of addiction in romantic relationships, and whether staying with someone who has a severe, active addiction actually helps anyone involved. We wrap up after examining what makes depression a disorder and how it can be contagious to those close to you.

Sorry the audio on my end is T-rash this week — I was puttering all over the house and packing for our move! Things with my Daddy’s dad are going... not great, per usual. But his latest therapy session shed some light on what the root issue is between them. We talk emotional protest behavior and what a sense of self really is. Handsome Man finishes us off by requesting an explanation of disability accommodations, and I give a scattered defense of my own disability-related needs.

This week, from the Thunderdome, our two relationship heavyweights break some big news! We talk buying a house together, transitioning the baby into the move, and my desire to make our bed “ours.” We bring up my dear ol’ Mom, her feelings about the big step, and the conversation we had about it, then talk about how I’ve been my-momming my sponsor over her engagement and partner choice. All this while trying to play video games! Listen to us get, waste magic, and run into each other incessantly. Much

This episode is mostly Daddy’s. We get a 3meta5me and talk about the current state of his relationship (or lack thereof) with his dad. Beyond the nitty gritty details of the discord, we expand the issue a little to his daughter and how to navigate being exiled from family life when other members end up being collateral damage. Squatter’s rights make an appearance, as does his stepmother, in the fallout of this fight.

This week your favorite attachment-challenged couple gives you a lot of food for thought. We start off with the lady’s first serious BPD splitting episode since the last one that brought her to a hospital, then kick into gear with her sponsor and the growing estrangement between the two. Finally we wrap up with some Father Peterson and his take on religion, in the context of the Mr’s sibling’s current relationship.

To please our Overlord Jordan Peterson, who asserts that the only way to keep a relationship healthy is to fight, we spar about the merits of strip clubs vs. play parties and when/why someone in a monogamous relationship may find themselves in these establishments! We also figure out what exactly intimacy means to us both. This episode was fun -- we haven't gone to the mat to really debate something in a while. Enjoy.

Today’s teeny-tiny episode features chats about playing Smash while in a relationship, “surprise” Christmas gifts, Stardew Valley addiction as an escape from a postgraduate degree program, and boring Masters classes. We celebrate Daddy’s return to therapy after the falling-out with his dad and also the fact that I haven’t been a complete mess despite being unable to attend therapy for a whole month.

Tonight in the Thunder Dome (the same room)... We get real rowdy on the topics of racism and fatphobia, Eddie Murphy’s Raw vs. Jordan Peele’s Get Out, and armchair activism as white-knighting and exhaustingly virtue signaling. We talk about the legal age of consent and why statutory rape is wrong. We catch you up to speed on boyfriend’s current daddy issues, debate the difficulties of trying to make things work with a parent that doesn’t care about you, and discuss the origins of lying to your kid.

This episode is sad -- you've been warned. After tripping in therapy, the boyfriend gives us a bigger look at the story of his mom and her death. He tells us about his family memories and how they all related to each other. We check in on our relationship, my lack of control over some aspects of my recovery maintenance, and emotional regulation overall. Discussion of "pulling the rug out from under you" makes a #BPD appearance as well, feat. abandonment feelings!!