Colleen Responds To Hate Comments - RELAX #118

No! Please don’t change yourselves for the podcast, we don’t want filtered versions of yourselves or to be “fake nice” to each other! Don’t listen to those people, I love the way you guys naturally interact, it keeps things interesting, and not boring!

I’ve seen EVERY podcast episode and I’ve never ONCE thought y’all were bickering or fighting.. people are so dramatic!

Colleen! :( Trying to please everyone must be exhausting. Honestly, I never found y’all’s bickering annoying. I didn’t even think of it as bickering, rather, a typical conversation. Whatever choice you make heading forward with the podcast, I hope you’re able to remain authentically yourself.

The whole reason I listen to this podcast is because I like hearing y'all banter. The only reason I can think of that people would be upset has to be because they love you both so much as a couple and we don't want to see the slightest tiny thing "happen." Please don't change for just a few people. When you guys go back and forth, we get to see how you guys interact. Most of us love that! Don't change that! Please!

Colleen nooooooooo!!!! We love how you and Erik interact and joke and “bicker banter”! This is a real marriage with a healthy conversational easy going style!!! This is how my late husband and I would talk and joke around! It was fun and I miss it so much! Don’t change yourself for the ones who don’t get it! If you want, try to find a balance but don’t change. How boring it would be! Also I love your idea on a notebook so you can jot a quick note while Erik is talking to help you remember your idea when it’s your turn!!!!!!

I’m 50 and I have gray hairs and a few wrinkles. Wear your age like a badge for living longer. Ladies, let’s support one another instead of criticizing. 💖

Hate comments always get priority… this is the world we live in now. Please continue to be true to who you are. And don’t let people who love to complain about everything get to you….That’s how we lost Jenna. We can’t lose you too.

So tired of hearing apologies about ridiculous things. Some people need to stop being so negative. Ignore the stupid comments.

Flynn wanting 60 siblings tells me he would love going to school soon! lol 😂

I hope you reconsider the comments that are trying to shame you, Colleen. The only opinion that matters about your "interrupting" and "bickering" is Erik's and he's said more than once that it doesn't bother him. You have different, complimenting personalities and the people criticizing you dont understand that. Its why you have a successful podcast. I loved the episode with Rachel and Erik as much as everyone else because their dynamic was different and entertaining in a different way. Different is okay. Different is amazing. I hope that you can see how unfair this criticism is of you and possibly misogynistic and ableist.

Ok I don’t know if it’s just me, but Colleen you’re fine and Erik talks plenty! Maybe you talk a little more but it’s obvious that’s your dynamic and both of you are fine with it. If people don’t like that you go on tangents or that you guys argue about silly things then they can find a new podcast. It’s nice that people are concerned for Erik but if he doesn’t care and you like how the podcasts go then please stop apologizing. Embrace your differences live your neurodiverse life. You should apologize to no one except Erik, if he actually minded which it seems like he doesn’t.

Wait noo! Colleen! Your “bickering” is my favorite thing about this podcast. Erik is clearly your person and the way you naturally communicate can never be wrong as long as the two of you aren’t bothered. I love love love love love this podcast and I hope it’s not gonna change too much :(

i have never watched this podcast and thought you two were actually bickering lol. i love the dynamic between you guys and the back and forths, jokes, banter all make it so much fun. i was LOVING this episode, i found myself smiling and laughing at so many moments between you and erik! i love you guys together interacting this way so much. this is my favorite podcast to watch and rewatch, you talking has never bothered me. i’m here to listen to you talk! it’s a podcast! i’ve never gotten annoyed that you talked over erik or interrupted him bc that’s just how your dynamic is- it doesn’t bother him and it doesn’t me. i know the negative comments stand out above the positive but colleen trust me so many of us are here for you! we’re here bc we love you and your content! you don’t need to change yourself to please anyone, those of us who love the podcast will always love it. we’re here for you and erik, and have been for over 100 episodes! 💜

Colleen :( please don’t listen to them I love how genuine you guys are when you talk. I don’t think it’s bickering more like funny banter that makes the show super fun to listen to! Please don’t change if other people don’t like it they don’t have to listen.

Colleen, please don't apologize. You aren't doing anything wrong!! We love you just the way you are.

I love the “bickering” it feels like home to me it’s exactly how my family is it’s not actually bickering it’s how you show love. Please keep doing you ❤

Erik definitely didn’t have Mother’s Day plans 😂

For me, the joking and razzing each other IS fun (please keep) and is different than the bickering. The best example, to me, was when E talked about having depression after the babies and C mocked it even though it's a real thing. That said, C, your humility at acknowledging this is extremely impressive and I hope that helps you two very likeable people head off any future tension, which these things can build up to even if it feels loving in younger years (which you still are btw! ;).

You know who needs to relax…….the mean BULLIES THAT WONT LEAVE COLLEEN and MIRANDA alone!! The both are funny and might I say smart, funny, loving, kind and humble!! You don’t like don’t watch!!!

Colleen, I just want to say I admire your apology and commitment to make changes, and willingness to admit when youre wrong. But I do think it's unfair for people to put the brunt of the ciritism for the "bickering" on you. I'm a young woman in science and there have been many many times when interject my opinion in matters and it comes across as rude, or abrasive. But when a man does the same exact thing (sometimes with literally the EXACT same opinon), its assertive and he's "such a boss". It's such a classic sexist double standard. So when people criticize you for disagreeing about when the days of the week start but don't have a problem with Eric trying to play devil's advocate for the very real issue of women being ridiculed far more than men for natural aging, it just screams sexism. Like you aren't allowed to have intelligent opinions, but Eric is. (I do want to point out that I'm not at all blaming Eric for this) Maybe I'm just too triggered and I'm just gonna get hate in the comments, but on the off chance anyone else feels the same, I'd love to hear about it. ❤️