Welcome back to Father Knows Something! Real People. Real Stories. Real Dad advice with a dash of ADHD, and maybe a couple of millennials chiming in from time to time to add their takes. This week's episode has Jerry, Justin, and Matt and Amy from Midwest Married chatting about romance! Now romance, or the excitement associated with love can come at many phases.. from the planning your wedding phase, to the honeymoon, and even the post kid phase. It's important to keep it alive, but what do you do when you feel it fading? Is there a way to get the romance back? Luckily we have longtime married couple Amy and Matt here to help us tackle these ones! Can't wait to hear your thoughts too! Checkout Midwest Married!!: https://www.youtube.com/@MidwestMarriedPodcast Audio for Midwest Married available wherever you listen to podcasts! Partners: Betterhelp: http://betterhelp.com/fks for 10% off your first month! BRĒZ: https://www.drinkbrez.com/ Promo Code: fks for $10 off! Dipsea: http://dipseastories.com/fks for 30 days FREE ! Submit your write-in ! https://forms.gle/8G2e4ockyZLNoiuX7 Bonus Stories on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fatherknows !! Our P.O. Box: Father Knows Something. 5042 Wilshire BLVD. #470. Los Angeles, CA. 90036 Follow up on Instagram @ Father Knows Something UPDATE US!! If your story has been read respond here: https://forms.gle/6CP9KoWvJ4NMKewa7 Video version available on YouTube: YouTube.com/fatherknowssomething Be sure to subscribe and tell us what you would give for advice! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
Hello, everybody, and welcome to this special, special, special week of Father Knows Something. We have not only Justin as a reader and guest host again, but we have a very special set of guest hosts tonight. We have Midwest and Married with us, my son, Matt, and daughter-in-law, Amy. Can I correct you? Yeah.
It's just Midwest Married.
Oh, okay. So what is it? What did I say?
No and. Oh. Okay.
And Midwest Mary, we have Matt, my son, and his wife, my daughter-in-law, Amy. And we're just kicking it off as the now Thanksgiving is over. We're going to the Christmas season. So you can see we're all bundled up here in sunny, warm California with our blankets and our Christmas socks.
Getting cozy.
We also got to do Disney this weekend and we brought Donald Duck back with us. So Donald, are you around? Okay, let's go.
What's the theme tonight?
Okay, so tonight we're going to be diving into romance.
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Chapter 2: How can a couple keep romance alive during different life phases?
I don't regret for a second the kids that I have. Not for a second. And the life that I ended up with. But let me tell you, it is certainly a commitment and it does cost you a relationship that might be out there. So you got to make that decision. Is this relationship really the one that's going to work for you? And I would roll right now.
And if it comes back and it's really meant to be, it's going to happen. You can't stop the universe with that. Okay, let's roll on. Number two.
Hello, FKS family. Looking for advice about my wedding. I 28 female and my fiance 27 male have been planning to get married in May of 2025. We booked a beautiful Airbnb and plan to host 30 of our closest friends and family members. My fiance and I are both shy and don't like being the center of attention. So a small and intimate wedding seemed ideal.
We plan to have our siblings be bridesmaids and groomsmen and even plan for our nieces and nephews to be flower girls or ring bearers. Our nieces are so excited. They talk about being flower girls all the time and even practice at home. I'm writing in for advice because my fiance and I are considering changing our wedding plans.
we have been starting to get overwhelmed by all of the work, planning, and logistics that will go into having a wedding out of state. We were planning on a lot of DIY, but now feel like our wedding weekend will be so much work. We're also finding that it will cost more than we anticipated.
We have other financial goals that we are focusing on right now too, like traveling, buying a house, starting a family in the next few years. We want to change our plan to have a courthouse wedding in our home state and an intimate dinner to celebrate afterward. We still want to make it as special as we possibly can, just less stress, hassle, and more budget friendly.
We would also plan to go on a really nice honeymoon and have professional pictures taken while we are there. My fiance and I are so tempted to change our plan. We feel that it makes a lot more sense for us as a couple. We would just feel awful about changing the plans of our guests who are already looking forward to our wedding.
We would especially feel terrible about disappointing our nieces who have been looking forward to being flower girls. Any advice is truly appreciated.
Well, weddings are expensive. Let me tell you what. We went all out on ours. We had 200 people. That was the max we could have. And we filled that venue. And it was a destination a couple hours north up on Lutzen Mountain. And it's expensive. And I can understand if you have the ability to... change the destination and save money, by all means, it's your wedding and it's your day.
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Chapter 3: What should I do if my partner wants kids but I don't?
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Cuatro. Four. Four. Okay, jumps right in. My ex moved on to the next person within a week, and I have to see them every week. Okay, so I met my ex in a student sport association two years ago, and we were in a committed relationship for about one year. We had many problems and ultimately it wasn't working, which led to us breaking up at the beginning of the year.
However, we're both still very active at the association. So we see and saw each other every week still, which led to us coming back together and we were in an on-off-ish relationship for the last couple of months. Now, do not get me wrong. I am happy the relationship is over, as we really were not working, but I am very hurt by how he is handling everything.
It basically stopped as we stopped messaging each other. When he also stopped texting, I was relieved it was over, but I also had a bad gut feeling. He was very often sad and closed down in our relationship. That is basically how I've seen him most in the last year.
Now he is very active again, being very loud and present, especially very loud in the group chats about all the fun things he is doing. Now, this already bothers me, as I feel like it is a facade, but whatever, I can get over it. However, as I stated, I had a bad gut feeling, already since we actually ended, about this girl in our association.
But I calm myself down, thinking, well, he wouldn't do that. Go on within a week after we ended. However, last week I was in the pub with some people including the both of them. If they tried to hide that they are talking, they at least failed miserably because the flirting was way obvious. Mind you, I was right there all the time as we were a smaller group.
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Chapter 7: What should I do if my partner is moving in with an ex?
Yeah. Yeah.
Peace. Peace. You know, passion. Having passion and trying to make sure you find the desire for passion, that you can get that, you know, within your eyes for each other. That's sometimes a... you know, a line of work together to keep that alive and to keep it where you can. It's part of growth.
I really do believe it's part of mutual respect and growth that you still have that feeling when you see them and your heart gets tickled when you see their car when you drive up in the driveway and you see them, but they're there, you go, oh, they're home. You know, I get to see them. It's a nice thing. And I've had that experience and I've had the other side.
And if you're with the wrong person, it doesn't last. It's time to go find that with the person that you really think that you can communicate with and that you have that meeting of the minds that it really is something that's going to continue to grow. Mm-hmm.
So it seems like they just need to explore this a little bit more, dive deeper into themselves, figure out if it was a real thing to begin with, if it's something that can come back.
Or if it was just a try and it just found out it's mutually not there.
But we do know we have a good base. Best friends for the past four years. If you already have that down... Maybe it doesn't work romantically, but you at least have a really strong connection. So let us know where it goes. And that's romance.
So that is it for our show for tonight. That's the opening of the Christmas season socks.
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