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EPISODE · Jul 28, 2026 · 41 MIN

10 Kids, 3 Wives, 1 Table — The Cost of Leaving & the Work of Coming Back

from Just My Baby Daddy Podcast · host AJ Adams

Last week we had one half — this week we run it back with the other. Kelly Burgess, co-host of The Better Baby Daddy Club, pulls up and gives us one of the most honest conversations we've ever had on this show.Ten kids. Three marriages. And a story most men would never tell on record: walking away from five children, choosing what he calls "the easy wrong instead of the hard right" — and the twenty years of trench work it took to repair it. His daughter once told him she saw him as nothing more than a sperm donor. Today, all ten kids and every ex can sit at one table. This episode is the road between those two moments.We get into: the ripple effect of leaving (it comes back at 13, at 16, at 21, and again when your kids become parents), blending families the right way — crock pot, not blender — navigating access to your own kids through another man, when the weekend visits stop being exciting, what his 85-year-old father taught him about the pilot light that never goes out, and the legacy answer that closes every episode: "I showed up. I answered the bell."If you've left, if you're thinking about leaving, or if you're doing the work to come back — this one is for you.🎙️ Follow The Better Baby Daddy Club: @betterbabydaddyclub | betterbabydaddyclub.com

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Last week we had one half — this week we run it back with the other. Kelly Burgess, co-host of The Better Baby Daddy Club, pulls up and gives us one of the most honest conversations we've ever had on this show. Ten kids. Three marriages. And a story most men would never tell on record: walking away from five children, choosing what he calls "the easy wrong instead of the hard right" — and the twenty years of trench work it took to repair it. His daughter once told him she saw him as nothing m...

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