In this episode of the Dope Black Dads podcast, Marvyn breaks down what it really takes to support a good man in 2025, without shrinking yourself or cosplaying a “good little wife.”
He covers:
• The truth about “something happening with men” — and why it’s about to go one of two ways
• The viral Chanté Joseph article about women feeling ashamed to say “I have a boyfriend,” and what that reveals about how men are valued
• Why humiliation content (fake throw-up pranks, mocking your man online) destroys respect and never builds the man you actually want
• Misogyny vs misandry: why they’re not mirror images and why that distinction matters here
• How you speak to your man: nagging vs affirmation, and why rants don’t land but clear, short statements do
• The “tennis vs American football” mistake when men share feelings, and how to catch the emotional ball instead of smashing it back
• What to do when he goes silent or withdrawn and you suspect more than “he’s just fine”
• How to investigate his mood without the dead-end question “You alright?”
• Respecting his pace of change instead of treating him like a broken service provider you ordered from an app
• Why not every mood change is cheating: money, parents, pressure, identity, and all the other stress signals you keep missing
• Turning the home into neutral ground so he doesn’t sit in the car dreading walking through the front door
• The “driveway rule”: negotiating how much decompression time he needs and what you need once he comes in
• Why there’s no serious “transition programme” for men moving from work-only identity into work + family, unlike the decades of systems put around women at work
• How political and economic systems still profit from overworked, emotionally absent men, and what that means for your relationship
• The truth: if your man is genuinely bad for you, you should leave; this episode is for people with a good man who’s struggling
• The tactic almost nobody uses: sitting in silence, breaking the touch barrier, and offering safety instead of demanding it from a depleted man
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