Episodes

My oldest son Max has a theory about his marriage. He says he married his father. Not someone like his father. His father. And after watching my husband and daughter-in-law Emma go at it over everything from politics to grocery store chicken salad, I think he might have a point. So I invited them both onto the podcast. Emma is back for Season 2, and this time she’s going head-to-head with Mr. B. Two big personalities, two very strong opinions, and two people who seem to genuinely enjoy pushi...

For the first episode of Season 2, I figured I should start with someone who was there for all of it. My husband, Pete. We’ve been married 36 years, raised three boys, paid three college tuitions, survived three weddings, and have now reached the point where the people we raised are grown adults, building families of their own and explaining the new rules to us. So we compared notes. Did we actually have a parenting philosophy? Were we the same parents to all three boys? Who was stricter? Who...