Thirty Years, Three Words: Our Marriage Finds Its Way Back to Paris
September 22, 2026 · 25 min
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A Paris trip thirty years later reveals what a long marriage quietly carries and quietly keeps.
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In this episode
- Why the words said rarely carry the most weight
- How a street puppeteer and a Blake line reframe a whole life
- What it looks like when love is passed to the next generation
- A honest look at the slow exhale that follows thirty years of parenthood
About this episode
Jeff doesn't say "I love you" often. When he finally does, on a bridge in Paris thirty years after he and Schuyler first fell for the city — and each other — her face tells him exactly why that's true.
In this episode, a family return trip becomes a quiet reckoning with time: a street puppeteer's tiny wooden tragedy, a line of Blake Jeff can't shake, and a marriage that's carried thirty years and three daughters without losing the thing that started it. Their eldest, Phoebe, has already staked her own claim on the city — proof that some things don't get relived so much as passed on.
This is the fifteenth episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go.
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