# When A Man's Wife Gives a 90-day Ultimatum (The Marriage Repairing Secrets) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dad-edge-podcast-522814/when-a-man-s-wife-gives-a-90-day-ultimatum-the-marriage-repairing-secrets Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dad-edge-podcast-522814/when-a-man-s-wife-gives-a-90-day-ultimatum-the-marriage-repairing-secrets.md Podcast: [The Dad Edge Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dad-edge-podcast-522814) Published: 2026-05-06T00:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://thedadedge.com/1474 Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/gooddadproject/5.5.26_-_Larry__Joe.mp3?dest-id=264727 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-dad-edge-podcast-522814/episodes/when-a-man-s-wife-gives-a-90-day-ultimatum-the-marriage-repairing-secrets Duration seconds: 3008 ## Resource In this episode, Larry and Uncle Joe are back for another live Wednesday Q&A with real men from the Dad Edge Alliance — and this one hits on two of the most common struggles we hear from men: a marriage in repair mode that's sending confusing signals, and a hot-tempered nine-year-old that nobody knows how to reach. The first question comes from Jimmy — a man whose wife gave him a 90-day ultimatum, who has been doing the work, and who is now completely confused by what's happening. She's been affectionate. Then she's not. Then she pulls back and says no more physical contact. Is it over? Should he give up? Joe and Larry speak into this with the kind of wisdom that only comes from having lived it — including Joe's own experience with physical contact happening and then the wall going right back up, and Larry's stock market analogy that every man in a marriage repair season needs to hear. The second question comes from Mark — a teacher and dad of three whose nine-year-old middle child has a hair-trigger temper that seems to come out of nowhere. Joe drops one of the most memorable pieces of wisdom this show has ever heard about what anger in a young boy actually means, what's running underneath it, and how to find the magma before it erupts. Larry adds his own raw, honest story about his ten-year-old Colton — a family meeting he called, the guilt he took full ownership of, and what it means when the softest voice in your family has to fight just to be heard. Joe closes with a Solomon quote that stops the whole room cold. Timeline Summary [0:00] Introduction to the Dad Edge mission and the movement to raise leaders of families and communities [1:02] Larry and Joe open the Q&A — May is here, and the Alliance Bible study group gets a shoutout [5:28] Jimmy's question:… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-dad-edge-podcast-522814/episodes/when-a-man-s-wife-gives-a-90-day-ultimatum-the-marriage-repairing-secrets/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dad-edge-podcast-522814/when-a-man-s-wife-gives-a-90-day-ultimatum-the-marriage-repairing-secrets.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.