280: Supporting Your Partner’s Mental Health and Parenting with Intention with My Husband, Joe

Conversations with Cam

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Motherhood, Cameronrogers, Freckledfoodie, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Parenting

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, my husband, Joe, joins me to talk about parenting, marriage, and how our relationship has evolved over the years from dating in high school to being parents of two. Joe shares his perspective on having a partner who struggles with mental health, how he best supports me, and reflects on whether he feels guilt or FOMO as a father when he gets time to himself. We discuss our division of labor and how we delineate tasks, how we deal with the mental overload of parenting, and how we moved through our “roommate phase” during postpartum. We also talk about advice for parents with kids having a “preferential parent” phase, the principles we try to live by as a family, working through disagreements while actively parenting, and much more.

Key Takeaway / Points:

Our relationship journey, from dating in high school to our experience in college
Joe’s perspective on having a partner who struggles with their mental health
Advice for those with partners struggling with ADHD and/or emotional overwhelm
On whether he feels guilt as a father when he gets time to himself
On feeling FOMO with our kids and witnessing special moments
On our division of labor and how we delineate tasks
On describing the mental load of parenting to someone who doesn’t understand
On moving through the roommate phase
What Joe learned from my postpartum journey
On his favorite parts about being a parent and the most challenging
On Joe’s experience with the transition from one to two kids
Advice for parents experiencing a preferential parent phase
On the principles we try to live by as a family
On working through resentment and arguments while actively parenting
On Joe’s unique relationship with my mom
How Joe feels about my job
What we’re most proud of each other for

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1:08.6	Today is a very special episode. Well, first of all, it feels so cozy to be on my couch upstairs in my house and not filming anything. Because yes, while video is fun sometimes for podcasts, I'm like, I get that it helps with trailers and we get to create content out of it and people
1:30.0	watch it on YouTube, all of that. Sometimes I really miss the days of no video and just podcasting
1:36.6	and not thinking about any of that aspect. And today, we're just at home recording because I have
1:43.3	on my rock, my best friend, my partner
1:45.1	and crime, my husband. And I knew that getting to the studio was going to be nearly impossible
1:51.0	with his work schedule and just the fact that we have kids. Like if he wasn't working,
1:55.7	us going to New York and recording in studio is not exactly what we want to use child care for.
2:03.2	So no video for this episode, but it has been a very, very highly requested one. He came on, I think after we had our
2:11.5	first, I think so. Because yes, I remember that. Okay. Wait, even on twice. The microphone has to go in front of your face. No, I don't. Okay. Wait, you've been on twice.
2:18.7	The microphone has to go in front of your face.
2:20.1	No, I don't think so.
2:21.0	Yes, you have.
2:21.8	Because you went on, you came on when I was at the Samsung studio.
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