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Daddy Tissues

Gina Sullivan

What happens when a woman who has survived enough finally gets a microphone. Gina Sullivan is 40, divorced, raising three kids, and done pretending she's fine. Every week she gets brutally honest — and brutally funny — about divorce, dating after divorce, daddy issues, toxic relationships, gaslighting, co-parenting, and rebuilding your life when it didn't go the way you planned. No filters, no shame, no judgment. Just the truth that makes you say "oh my God, me too." Grab your coffee, your tequila, or your Ativan — and grab your Daddy Tissues. New episodes every Monday.

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  • #22
    Yesterday · 34 min

    Insanity

    📍 Chapter 15 of Gina's story (Episode 22). New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this My friends literally chant it at weddings: Gina never loses. Turns out there's one thing that can beat me, and it lives on my bathroom floor. Superman didn't call. Again. Are we shocked? But this time I told myself I didn't even like him anyway, and I went on with my life — working, going out, and getting up at five in the morning to train for the Broad Street Run in the freezing fucking cold. Because back then I had a checklist: the man, the house, the money, the kids, and number one on the list, being skinny. This is Chapter 15. Sunday binge days turned into 10 PM bowls of cereal and PB&J after PB&J, wrappers hidden in the trash like a dead body, seven-mile runs and laxatives to pay it all back — and thirty days of Shaun T's Insanity with one rule: no scale until it's over. Then came the scale, my mom, a therapist, a diagnosis I actually wished for, and a pill that made me feel nothing at all. And six months after our make-out session… a Facebook friend request from Superman. That bitch went in the icebox. Plus: why Tammy Takedown is the only woman you call when you need to run 10 miles with no training, and the day she gave a pizza place a show it will never forget. And the thing I learned the hard way: you never know what it feels like inside somebody else's body, so don't judge. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and discussion of disordered eating (binge eating, bulimia, laxatives), body image, depression, anxiety, mental health medication and addiction. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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  • #21
    November 2 · 20 min

    The Committee of Ten

    📍 Episode 21 of Gina's story. New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this We're taking a little pause in the story today. Superman has returned to his home, everybody's where they need to be — and I want to talk about something that's been sitting on my chest since I recorded the last one. Because at the end of that night I asked myself the question I always end up asking: why do I take one beautiful face and build an entire man out of it? And why do I need ten people to weigh in before I can decide whether I even like him? Part of the answer showed up in a conversation with my mom and my sister. Here's why we were even having it: my brother and I have wrestled with anxiety and depression, my sister hasn't in the same way, and the three of us were trying to figure out why we turned out so different. Remember Episode Two — The Roots? Well, the roots are still growing. My sister said, "You know what I remember? Dad always brought something home for me. And he never had anything for you." And my mom said she always felt bad for my sister… because of me. I was the well-behaved one. Good grades, cheerleading, teacher's pet. "The kid I didn't have to worry about." And sitting there I heard something I'd never heard before: everybody thought I was fine, so nobody checked. I was getting attention — just not the kind I needed. Being the good kid doesn't mean you don't need anything. Sometimes it just means you got really good at not asking. And here's what that kid grows up into: somebody who ran every decision through ten people — the Gina Sullivan Advisory Board — because she never learned to trust her own answer. Belonging and trusting yourself are not the same thing. Then there's the part where I catch myself doing the exact thing my overwhelmed mom did — "when this is over, it'll be easier" — wishing away the very stage I'm standing in. Play with my kids, or do the wash. The dishes can wait — okay, for how long? Because now we have no forks. I check on the quiet one now, because I'm a mom and I know how you miss things. I don't want my kid to have to fall apart to get my full attention. I'm in the lowest financial spot of my life — partly because I chose it. I had my son young, I missed things, and I'd do it all over again. My body hurts, my hair's falling out, I might cry — and I'm happy, because I finally know who I am. I lived forty years the other way. I've got a whole other half to live as me, because I said so. We are developing character and boiling water at the same time. To the kid everybody thought was fine: we see you. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and honest talk about childhood emotional dynamics, mental health, financial stress, and single motherhood. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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  • #20
    October 28 · 26 min

    The Juice is Worth the Squeeze

    📍 Chapter 14 of Gina's story (Episode 20). New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this Twenty episodes. Twenty fucking episodes. I can't believe I even did this. So before we get back into the story, grab whatever you've got — your iced coffee, your water bottle, the juice box you just stole out of your kid's lunchbox — one hand on the wheel, please, I need you alive for the next episode. To you, for not deciding I was just some crazy bitch with a mic. Maybe you did. But you stayed. Cheers to you, cheers to me, and cheers to our fucking bodies for dragging us all the way here. This is Chapter 14. Philly. January. Freezing. A random little Northeast bar we never go to, me and Dr. Murray with tequila up to our ears, my favorite little leather jacket, big hoops, lip gloss. I turn to my right and — well, look who the fuck it is. Superman. Seven years of nothing, one summer day in Sea Isle where I couldn't even get a bagel, and now here he is again. And this time I want an answer. A few shots of Mr. Patrón later, I got one. Verizon couldn't help us, but the tequila could. He did get my text. He didn't answer on purpose — because of the neighbor. He and his friends went to high school with him, and his friends basically went, "Dude, are you crazy?" So I made it make sense the only way I knew how: anybody willing to sign up for all that must be amazing. The juice is worth the squeeze. My filtering system. Looking back? That was a pretty dangerous place to put the bar. Then the rock wall, the car, the stairs up to my condo… and the next morning I'm hungover, there are two boys in my apartment, and I'm volunteering to drive them home to South Philly. Imagine spending years hoping a man will come to you and then personally providing the return trip. Turns out I'd never really known who he was. I'd known how he looked. Quiet meant deep. Gorgeous meant romantic. I'd done most of this relationship by myself. So here's the question I wish I'd spent more time on: do I want him, or do I want the feeling I think I'll have when he finally wants me? Before you spend seven years wondering if a man likes you, try having a full conversation with him. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and discussion of heavy drinking, a hookup, a difficult co-parenting situation, and dating as a single mom. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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  • #19
    October 18 · 26 min

    Nothing but a Pretty Face

    📍 Chapter 13 of Gina's story (Episode 19). New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this Seven years. Seven years I had not seen this man, not once. Same neighborhoods, same bars, same shore towns, same everything — Philly's not that big and the shore's even smaller — and not one sighting. He went from the moon to just gone. And now here he is, at the one bar, on the one day, at no-shower happy hour. This is Chapter 13. I knew exactly what this was: God had finally answered my prayer from the ocean at 17. So I handed Dr. Murray my drink and walked across that bar like I was walking into surgery — me, the girl who never pursued a man in her life, who'd see a guy and discuss it with a friend for four to six business days. And he pulled my sunglasses down my nose real slow and said, "I want to see your face." On the one day I'm legally allowed to look like this and smell like this. That was the whole point of no-shower happy hour: the sunglasses stay on. And this man broke the deal to look at my face. Numbers exchanged. I went home, showered, did the full face — the real face, the one I'd spent seven years wishing he'd seen instead of the other thing he saw — and sat there in my best outfit waiting by the phone like it was 1998 and he was going to call the landline. What happened at 2 a.m. involved his name and the letter N about 700 times. What happened the next morning involved an everything bagel, a bag of potato chips, and the floor. Then, because believe it or not I was still on my mission, a bartender with beautiful eyes who made me laugh. We're calling him Night Shift. Almost a year of fun — no plan, no "where is this going," two ships passing in the same night, one of them docked by 9 p.m. with a retainer in. Until one night he got really drunk and said one sentence I can still give you with the punctuation. And a little while later there's a knock at my door: a crying man, a handwritten letter, and the exact Louis Vuitton I had wanted my entire adult life. A gift is not an apology. A gift is an apology-shaped object. Two doorways, eight years apart. At 17 the bar was on the floor next to a bare mattress and I handed a man a medal for stepping over it. At 25 the bar went to the top shelf. The men didn't change — there's a Night Shift in every bar in America. What changed was the exit. Nobody tells you this part about healing: the day you're healed isn't the day you finally pick the right man. It's the day you pick the wrong one and leave in one sentence instead of 11 years. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and discussion of drinking, drunk texting, a blackout (recapped), and dating as a single mom. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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  • #18
    October 11 · 33 min

    No-Shower Happy Hour

    📍 Chapter 12 of Gina's story (Episode 18). New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this I'm recording this at two o'clock in the afternoon and I have not showered. I'm not sure when the last time was. I did school drop-off like this. I did the UPS return like this. I had a full conversation with another mother in a parking lot like this — and nobody has any idea. Sunglasses are a miracle we get to hide behind. When I was 24 there was a magical place where you showed up like this on purpose. No shower, sweaty, salty, sticky and half naked. Now I'm 40, it's Tuesday, I'm late releasing my podcast for the second week in a row, and I would give anything to be half naked and sticky. This is Chapter 12. First we finish Wildwood — what actually happened after that wave. One night inside Superman's shore house, a plastic bottle of Bankers Club, a jug of Friendly's Creamsicle mix in a blender, and exactly two Polaroids left in my head: a hallway wall, and a bare mattress with gum in my hair. Two witnesses, zero memories. And the part 40-year-old Gina had to stop the tape for — I woke up with no idea what happened, and the feeling I walked home with was thank you. That's where the bar was. On the floor, right next to the mattress. Then back to the balcony and the promise. Never again. The mission to find the man with the W-2. The most reliable man of my entire life, who Dr. Murray and I found on the same night at the Springfield and agreed, like adults, to share — nurse, surgeon, scrubbing in. A blonde, tan schoolteacher with a Jude Law voice who called me Gige, took me to dinner in the city, heard "I have a son," and something behind his face closed. Your gut isn't being dramatic. It's being early. And then the thing this whole episode is sitting on: no-shower happy hour at the OD in Sea Isle. The only happy hour in America where the dress code is don't. Everybody looks like a wet dog, so nobody looks like a wet dog. The one hour where a girl with a checklist, a title to win back, and a man and his lawyer building a version of her out of one true detail got to show up exactly as the day had left her. It was the ocean with a bar in it. Lemonade in hand, sunglasses on, the best kind of day — and I look across the bar. Superman. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and discussion of heavy drinking, a blackout, and dating as a single mom. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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  • #17
    October 1 · 40 min

    Permission Slip

    📍 Chapter 11 of Gina's story (Episode 17). New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this Somebody is saying something about you that is so wrong, so twisted, so completely fucked up that your brain disconnects — and what do you do? You smile. Head tilt. Little nod. "Mm-hmm." Meanwhile, inside your body is a Slipknot concert. Front row. Volume all the way up. This is Chapter 11. It starts with the Good Little Girl Expectation List — the one nobody hands you, but you know every line of by heart, numbers one through six — and the day I decided that me and my kids are done following it. You are the hostage and the hostage negotiator. Throw a chair, just don't hit anybody (and not the good chairs — the folding chair). The parents at the soccer game, and why a six-year-old is not a hostage negotiator. Anger is a second emotion; underneath it is sadness, always. Same feeling, two costumes. Why I'd rather be the wolf everybody's scared of than the donkey everybody rides on. Your permission slip to feel every single thing: signed, dated, no expiration date. Get out of the petting zoo. Then me and my picker break up. The new picker wants a man with a W-2. And we go back to a Wildwood summer at seventeen: a boy in a black hoodie and big headphones at a Philly house party, a shore house with a staircase that went straight into the ceiling, the best wall in Wildwood, and a photo of a man on a Superman towel. My sister's bikini (she never found out). Standing in the ocean, my happy place, doing the most good-little-girl thing I have ever done — asking God, nicely, for a man I had never said one word to: "God, I will do anything, and I mean anything. If I can marry this man, please God, I will do it." God's answer? I asked for a husband, and He took my top off. Fuck you, God. Seriously. That was fucked up. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and discussion of emotional abuse, anger, and dating after trauma. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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  • #16
    September 22 · 46 min

    Black Sheep

    📍 Chapter 10 of Gina's story (Episode 16). New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this A few years ago I found an old camcorder in a box... there was my oldest, four years old, right after Christmas, in his little blue robe and slippers... I forgot his voice. I forgot what that little voice sounded like, and the second I heard it I missed it so much I couldn't breathe. And I have a five-year-old downstairs right now. This is Chapter 10. The years in the apartment while the box in my basement quietly filled up. A woman calling my kid's daycare to check whether I'd sent him in with a hat and gloves. Text messages that came in like novels with no chapters. A soccer game, a wedding I never got to, my aunt on the phone saying "Gina, he took him" — and me chasing them up to a door on a Philly street that got locked in my face while my son was on the other side of it. The day my kid told his principal the truth and I had to decide what to tell child services. The thing I said to his father afterward that I've regretted ever since. And then, because the universe has a sense of humor: Aspen. Down the shore. Telling me he and Boston are "just roommates." So I found her, and I told her everything, and she believed me — and then she never called. They got married. Coolio married the other woman too. Two for two. Because sometimes we know the truth. We just don't want to actually know it. I went from being the perfect one to the black sheep. And I spent the next twenty years trying to get my title back. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and discussion of family conflict, custody disputes, child welfare, and abusive relationship dynamics. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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  • #15
    September 16 · 34 min

    Leftovers

    📍 Chapter 9 of Gina's story (Episode 15). New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this The last time I told my story, my mother said the neighbor was going to torture me for the rest of my life, and I said he'd get over it. I was wrong — there's a box in my basement with 294 court entries that says so. But before I open it, you need to meet the girl who was living her life while it filled up. This is Chapter 9. How I got out of my parents' house (there were scissors involved — nobody lost an ear). The car my dad took, the apology I didn't mean, and what my mother taught me about enduring. A bartending shift, a third-floor apartment over the Delaware River with my best friend, a walk-in closet that changed my life, and a mattress on the floor I was perfectly happy with. A Mercedes. A boob job. Shore houses. Some of the best years I ever had. And right at the start of them, a boyfriend we're calling Aspen — the Spider-Man blanket guy — who suddenly, out of nowhere, got very into skiing. Every weekend. Until one night, with him asleep on my floor, I picked up his phone and met Boston. And a text about leftovers told me everything. This one's about the night I learned I didn't need a confession to believe my own eyes. And about a closet that smelled like cigarettes I couldn't smell — because when you live inside something long enough, your whole body adjusts. Your nose. Your brain. Your idea of normal. You can't smell your own house. But once you step outside long enough to smell it, it's really hard to pretend it doesn't stink. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and discussion of family conflict, infidelity, and toxic relationships. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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  • #14
    September 7 · 30 min

    The Box

    📍 Chapter 8 of Gina's story (Episode 14). New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this It's Labor Day weekend. Fireworks going off outside. I'm alone in my house, and instead of being at the shore, I went down to the basement and dragged up a giant box with one word written on it in permanent marker: COURT. Some people have a cooler. I have litigation. Inside: 300 entries between two court cases — custody and support — and sixteen years of stories behind the paperwork. I sat down to tell you what happened after my mother said "he's going to torture you for the rest of your life," and I had no idea where to start. So instead, I cried. Loud. And then I told you the truth about where I am. This is Chapter 8. Why the first story was easy to tell and everything after it comes in glimpses — a Facebook page my friends made about him, a co-parenting session I got kicked out of at nine months pregnant. All the years I spent trying to make peace with a man who only offered two options: be with him, or be his enemy. The dinners where I tried to be a co-parent and he tried to reopen applications for girlfriend. Polly Pocket and her little rolly cart, and why my six lawyers were never the problem. What all of this did to my friends and my little sister. And two people harassing me right now, at forty, making me ask: how am I back in this position? I don't have it figured out. But I've got a whole box of what happened next. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and discussion of family conflict, harassment, and abusive relationship dynamics. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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  • #13
    August 31 · 28 min

    He'll Get Over It

    📍 Chapter 7 of Gina's story (Episode 13). New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this I'm human. My electric got shut off, my kids are mean, and I don't have a production team — but the story keeps going. Chapter 7: my first time ever in a courtroom (the first of hundreds), and the debut of a woman you'll be hearing a lot more about — Polly Pocket. What it feels like to walk into a room where everyone has already decided who you are. The gossip lesson I'm actually grateful for: "and then I became Linda." The hearing he walked away from with no consequences, and the regret I still carry about being the bigger person. An apology on my parents' doorstep I still can't tell you was real. And a porch, a man crying, and the four dumbest words I've ever said. My mother told me he'd torture me for the rest of my life. "He'll get over it," I said. Boy, was I wrong. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and descriptions of family conflict and abusive relationship dynamics. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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  • #12
    August 25 · 37 min

    Don't Forget to Brush

    📍 Chapter 6 of Gina's story (Episode 12). New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this My three-year-old son was lying in a hospital bed recovering from being hit by a car — and that's when I found out his father had gone behind my back and taken emergency custody of him. Not because he wanted to raise him. Because I had moved on, and this was the punishment. This is Chapter 6. The kitchen where my dad said "I'm going to start making phone calls." The welcome home party where nobody spoke to me for two days. The hospital bathroom, where a powerless 21-year-old found the only weapon she had access to — and used it. The phone call from my lawyer that changed everything. The five o'clock countdown. And a car caravan following me home, then standing on my lawn until my mother — the peacemaker, the one who never raises her voice — told them all to get off her property. They thought they could write down whatever they wanted about a 21-year-old girl and take her child. They fucked with the wrong people. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and discussion of custody conflict and child injury. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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  • #11
    August 17 · 38 min

    Car Insurance

    📍 Chapter 5 of Gina's story (Episode 11). New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this I thought the worst thing that could happen had already happened. My three-year-old had been hit by a car. He almost died. And somehow… that wasn't the end of it. Chapter 5 picks up in the hospital, on the night before my son was finally supposed to come home. The Spider-Man blanket — and the moment he realized I'd moved on. Why my son's father suddenly HAD to leave to go get "car insurance" while our child lay in a hospital bed. The grandfather who reappeared after years of being frozen out (I thought it was forgiveness — it wasn't). Papers handed to me in a hallway, and the lawyer who said "Gina, I'm so sorry… but they're real." The two allegations I'll never forget — and why the most believable lies always have a little truth buried inside them. Being "allowed" to accompany my own child. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and discussion of custody conflict and a child's injury. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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  • #10
    August 13 · 31 min

    The Wrong B*tch

    📍 Episode 10 of Gina's story. New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this You know what's really fucking annoying? Growth. I've grown enough. Every time you become a stronger, wiser woman, God goes "Amazing, she learned that lesson — let's absolutely fuck her week up and see if it stuck." I'm tired. Give me Botox and peace. This episode was supposed to be the next chapter of my story. For the first time in ten weeks, I couldn't do it — because my brain couldn't go back into old trauma when it was busy with brand-new trauma. This is the story of what just happened to me. A program I believed in. A question I asked out loud that I wasn't supposed to ask. Getting thrown out — and then finding out a completely different version of why was being told to everyone. It's about being the person who says the true thing and instantly becomes the villain. And it's about the moment you realize: you fucked with the wrong bitch. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and discussion of manipulation and group dynamics. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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  • #9
    August 3 · 27 min

    The Battleground

    📍 Chapter 4 of Gina's story (Episode 9). New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this This is the chapter I almost didn't tell. Last chapter ended on a normal fall night in Northeast Philly — leaves in the orange pumpkin bags, mac and cheese on the stove, a kiss on my son's head before I left for the gym. And then my phone rang. My actual next-door neighbor, completely out of breath: "Your son got hit by a car." I thought he was messing with me. He wasn't. And when I asked "Is he okay?" — over and over — he wouldn't answer me. There is no way to explain where your mind goes when somebody won't answer that question. This is the story of that night and the eleven days that followed. The ambulance that appeared out of nowhere like God dropped it in front of me and said "follow that." The phone call from HER — the get-out-of-jail-free sister — that I can still hear word for word twenty years later. Holding my baby's hand on a stretcher. And the waiting room scene that looked like a Jerry Springer episode. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and detailed discussion of a child's serious injury and family conflict. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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  • #8
    July 27 · 28 min

    Fan Mail

    📍 Chapter 3 of Gina's story (Episode 8). New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this Today is a celebration. Pour yourself some champagne — I've reached the magical level of podcasting where people are angry about things I didn't say, names I didn't use, and jokes they've decided to treat like sworn testimony. So this one opens with a little fan mail: a toast to the haters, a quick word with God (we're boys, we get each other), and the one thing I need everybody to understand — you can love people and still tell the truth about what happened to you. Both things can be true at the same time. Then we get back in the time machine. Chapter 2 ended with me going into labor at 18. This chapter is what came home from the hospital with me: a baby I loved more than my own life, and a relationship where I had to fight for permission to be my own son's mother. The flowers that vanished to a house I never agreed to live in. The 3 a.m. calls. The beginning of the pattern that would run the next sixteen years. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and discussion of coercive control and new motherhood. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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  • #7
    July 20 · 45 min

    Get Out of Jail Free Card

    📍 Chapter 2 of Gina's story (Episode 7). New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this I'm 18 years old and I'm sitting in a basket of dirty laundry. Not next to it. IN it. In my mother's cellar, following her around the house all day like a puppy, because I have something to tell her and I physically cannot get the words out. Chapter 1 ended with one word on the morning of my 18th birthday: pregnant. This week you get the whole story. Five positive tests and a due date instead of a keg party. The get-out-of-jail-free card his sister put on the table — and the reason I couldn't take it: a psychic with a glass eye, a miracle baby, and my mother's voice from a random Tuesday in our kitchen. And then my mom turns around in that cold Northeast Philly cellar and says the two words I never got to say. What comes after is nine months of everything falling apart in slow motion: a father who went silent, a boy who wasn't who I thought he was, one accidental phone call that told me everything, and a "perfect" family whose foundation I never checked before I built on it. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and discussion of teen pregnancy and family conflict. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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  • #6
    July 13 · 30 min

    Who Is Vicky?

    📍 Chapter 1 of Gina's story (Episode 6). New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this I'm 17 years old, standing in an art supply store outside the city, talking to a boy I met five seconds ago. My mom is behind me going "Gina, stop." And I look this complete stranger dead in the eye and say: "Who is Vicky?" What he said broke my heart into a million pieces for the very first time. Welcome to Chapter 1. I told you I'd tell my story from the beginning, and I keep my promises. Time machine to Northeast Philly: the loving chaos, 70 lates a year, Sister Helen, the perfect-little-girl checklist. My dad's story — the part that's mine to tell. My first soulmate, who we're calling Coolio. The most important sentence in this episode: kids don't do what you say, they do what you allow. And the day 17-year-old me chose herself for the very first time. It ends on the morning of my 18th birthday with a bombshell you are not ready for. Every name in this story is changed. The people don't matter. The pattern matters. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and discussion of family dysfunction and teen relationships. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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  • #5
    July 6 · 32 min

    White Trash

    📍 Episode 5 of Gina's story. New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this A couple of days ago my phone rang. My cousin — an amazing human, a very important person in my life — and I could tell by her voice something was off. Then came the words that always come right before a bomb drops: "I'm always hesitant to tell you these things because I don't want it to be hurtful." My whole body was on fire before she'd even said it. This is the episode where I'm real to the bone. The woman who felt like a second mother when I was growing up. The fallout that happened after my divorce. What it feels like when family love turns out to have terms and conditions — and what someone who helped raise me actually thinks about me and this podcast. It's about truth, grief, family judgment, and what happens when someone attacks the packaging because they cannot attack the truth inside it. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and discussion of family conflict and grief. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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  • #4
    June 22 · 12 min· Video

    Let's Get High

    📍 Episode 4 of Gina's story. New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this 🎬 Watch this episode on YouTube → https://youtu.be/G9jYxT2HebQ If you want to give your daughters some kick-ass birth control, park them in a comfy chair with a blanket and tell them my story. But that's coming. Today is about the feeling that says "I want to fuck his face off" — otherwise known as chemistry. You read every book. You went to therapy. You drank the Kool-Aid and carried around the giant embarrassing water bottle. And then he walks in with the right eyes and the right chaos, and it's like morphine-acid-kryptonite-crack straight into your veins. So what IS that? Love at first sight — or your childhood trauma being pushed through your bloodstream by the little mad scientist I lovingly call Mr. Trauma? This one's about the most inconvenient truth in dating after divorce: danger feels incredible, butterflies might be a warning, and the high we chase is sometimes just a starved nervous system finally getting fed. But it's not a lecture about settling for the beige-wall guy. It's the real question: can love be electric AND safe? Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and frank discussion of dating and trauma responses. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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  • #1
    June 15 · 20 min· Video

    I'm F*cking Doing This

    📍 Start here — this is Episode 1. Daddy Tissues is told in order. 🎬 Watch this episode on YouTube → https://youtu.be/70zBcBjeeQg I'm doing this. I am fucking doing this. I just got divorced, turned 40, I have three kids, a lifetime of trauma, and a microphone I barely know how to use. I literally just learned how to post an Instagram story. I am completely unqualified — and somehow I know I'm the most qualified person on earth to do this show. This is the first episode. It's about why: the lump in your throat when someone asks what's wrong. The husband fight that ends with you crying in a Target parking lot. Holding it together while someone gaslights you — and then getting called crazy the second you finally explode. The supermom on Instagram who secretly wants a week alone in a hospital. Twenty years as a hairstylist doing therapy with foils in women's heads. And the day 40 hit me like a smack in the face and I realized I had all the stuff — the degree, the wedding, the jawline, the trampoline — and had never once asked myself if I was okay. To everyone who knows me and is currently having a panic attack: yes, Gina has a microphone. Everyone remain calm. I'm not here for revenge. I'm here for the truth — the kind that hurts coming out and then finally lets you breathe. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 ⚠️ Contains strong language and discussion of divorce, mental health, and family trauma. 📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻 New episodes every Monday. Grab your daddy tissues. Till next time, my queens. 🖤 Connect with Daddy Tissues: Follow along for more brutally honest conversations about dating, divorce, motherhood, daddy issues, toxic relationships, healing, self-worth, and all the emotional junk we somehow inherited without asking for it. 🎧 FOLLOW THE SHOW If Daddy Tissues has ever made you laugh, cry, or think holy shit, me too, hit FOLLOW so you don’t miss the next chapter. Everywhere: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/listen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMb Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 ⭐ LEAVE A REVIEW That helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this white trash right here is worth listening to. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529 💸 THE SWEAR JAR Every “fuck” costs me a quarter. Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support 📱 SOCIALS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/ Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.com Music: “Do It Anyway” by Scarlett Solo, used under license. Disclaimer: Daddy Tissues is a personal storytelling podcast for entertainment, reflection, and connection. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, or a replacement for professional support. Names and identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. 📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER: every episode, start to finish

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