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Daddy Tissues

Daddy Tissues

By: Gina Sullivan
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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.Copyright 2026 Gina Sullivan Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Nothing but a Pretty Face

    Nothing but a Pretty Face
    18 Oct 2026
    📍 Chapter 13 of Gina's story (Episode 19). New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-thisSeven 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 SHOWIf 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/listenSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMbApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409⭐ LEAVE A REVIEWThat 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/id1896925409Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529💸 THE SWEAR JAREvery “fuck” costs me a quarter.Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support📱 SOCIALSInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcastTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/Website: https://daddytissuespodcast.comMusic: “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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    26 min
  • No-Shower Happy Hour

    No-Shower Happy Hour
    11 Oct 2026
    📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻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.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 SHOWIf 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/listenSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMbApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409⭐ LEAVE A REVIEWThat 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/id1896925409Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/daddy-tissues-6514529💸 THE SWEAR JAREvery “fuck” costs me a quarter.Bail me out here: https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/support📱 SOCIALSInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/daddy.tissues.podcastTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSHPhqwR/YouTube: https://youtube.com/@daddy.tissues.podcast?si=aqBSaaS0zYP_VPrwFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECbqyrWpk/?mibextid=wwXIfrWebsite: https://daddytissuespodcast.com📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDERI’m Fucking Doing This → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-thisThe Roots → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/the-rootsThe Boiling Frog → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/the-boiling-frogLet’s Get High → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/lets-get-highWhite Trash → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/white-trashChapter 1: Who is Vicky? → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/chapter-1-who-is-vickyChapter 2: Get Out of Jail Free Card → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/chapter-2-get-out-of-jail-free-cardChapter 3: Fan Mail → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/chapter-3-fan-mailChapter 4: The Battleground → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/chapter-4-the-battlegroundThe Wrong Bitch → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/the-wrong-bitchChapter 5: Car Insurance → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/chapter-5-car-insuranceChapter 6: Don’t Forget to Brush → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/chapter-6-dont-forget-to-brushChapter 7: He’ll Get Over It → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/chapter-7-hell-get-over-itChapter 8: The Box → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/chapter-8-the-boxChapter 9: Leftovers → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/...
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  • Permission Slip

    Permission Slip
    1 Oct 2026
    Chapter 11: Permission SlipSomebody 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.Chapter Eleven starts with the Good Little Girl Expectation List — the one nobody hands you, but you know every line of by heart — and Gina's decision that she, and her kids, are done following it. Then she hands out permission slips to feel every single thing, breaks up with her picker, and takes us back to a Wildwood summer at seventeen, a photo on a stairway to nowhere, and the day she stood in the ocean and asked God for a man she had never said one word to.In this episode:The smile — and the circuit breaker your brain flips when someone tells a version of you that isn't youThe Good Little Girl Expectation List, numbers one through sixYou are the hostage and the hostage negotiator"No, you are not crazy. That was fucked up."Never again — not Gina, and not her kidsThrow a chair. Just don't hit anybody. And not the good chairs — the folding chairThe parents at the soccer game, and why a six-year-old is not a hostage negotiator"Mr. Johnson, you're being an asshole right now, and you're a liar."Eight words, nobody dies — or two words that feel and sound way betterBritney Spears styleWhere Gina got the list, and why the programming is goneThe friend who always knew better — and a message for herTwo wrongs, and the permission slip you sign every time you let it slideAnger is a second emotion. Underneath it is sadness. Always.Same feeling, two costumesWhy Gina would rather be the wolf everybody's scared of than the donkey everybody rides onYour permission slip: signed, dated, no expiration dateGet out of the petting zooBack to the story: Gina and her picker break upThe guy who threw his little brother's bicycle through the windshield of his dad's brand-new carThe new picker wants a man with a W-2A boy in a black hoodie and big headphones at a Philly house partyThe summer of SupermanThe shore house with a staircase that went straight into the ceilingThe best wall in Wildwood, and the photo of a man on a Superman towelNaming your kids and having the dishwasher fight with someone you've never spoken toHer sister's bikini (she never found out)Standing in the ocean, the happy placeThe most good-little-girl thing Gina has ever doneThe prayerThe waveSaying hello to SupermanAt seventeen, Gina stood in the Atlantic, lifted her face to the sun, and asked nicely:"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. 🖤📖 Daddy Tissues is a true story told in order. Start at the beginning. Links to episodes👇🏻📚 THE WHOLE STORY, IN ORDER I'm Fucking Doing This → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this The Roots → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/the-roots The Boiling Frog → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/the-boiling-frog Let's Get High → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/lets-get-high White Trash → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/white-trash Chapter 1: Who is Vicky? → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/chapter-1-who-is-vicky Chapter 2: Get Out of Jail Free Card → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/chapter-2-get-out-of-jail-free-card Chapter 3: Fan Mail → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/chapter-3-fan-mail Chapter 4: The Battleground → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/chapter-4-the-battleground The Wrong Bitch → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/the-wrong-bitch Chapter 5: Car Insurance → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/chapter-5-car-insurance Chapter 6: Don't Forget to Brush → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/chapter-6-dont-forget-to-brush Chapter 7: He'll Get Over It → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/chapter-7-hell-get-over-it Chapter 8: The Box → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/chapter-8-the-boxNew 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 SHOWIf 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/listenSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033ygF97LFxvu3ZpHysLMbApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddy-tissues/id1896925409⭐ LEAVE A REVIEWThat helps more than you know. It tells the algorithm that this ...
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