Dan Martell - October 19, 2025


Divorce is a bad word


Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

230.21582

Word count

256

Sentence count

15

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Toxicity

3

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Summary

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Too many couples are so playful and quick to go there when they re upset that it s just a dangerous pattern. Stop joking about divorce because it quietly breaks your marriage. I don t care how much I fight with my wife, that conversation is not to be brought up.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 My wife and I had to get to a point where the concept or word divorce was never in the 0.79
00:00:04.840 conversation. I just watch people use it even a joking way. You know, they're at dinner and
00:00:08.960 they're like, oh my God, if you do that, I'd divorce you. It's like, I don't want to bring
00:00:12.680 that energy into my life. And what I've learned is over the years is people have a fracture.
00:00:16.940 And when they keep amplifying it with words, the fracture gets bigger and bigger until the point
00:00:21.660 where the two people are standing on the two sides of the cliff across the fracture. And
00:00:26.500 they're just too far to come back together. Whereas if they stop using words that disempower
00:00:30.880 them or create that distance, that it would actually make it easier for them to come back. 0.70
00:00:35.160 Call me weird, but words fucking matter in my life. And the language we use to describe
00:00:38.960 situations for fun or not, there's just certain things that I don't think it's worth using
00:00:43.340 in your life. I don't care how much I fight with my wife. That conversation is not to be brought
00:00:49.080 up. You can say a whole lot of other things, but we don't need to go there because the truth is
00:00:54.040 neither of us want that. And I just think too many couples are so playful or quick to fucking 0.98
00:01:00.420 go there when they're upset that it's just a dangerous pattern. Stop joking about divorce 0.97
00:01:05.120 because it quietly breaks your marriage.