Podcasts · Front Row Dads with Jon Vroman

Your Influence as a Dad Doesn't Expire with Mark Groves

7 Oct 2026 · 9:00 · Episode 594

Mark Groves is 46 years old, and the conversation he keeps coming back to happened in a car when he was in his twenties with his father.

He had gone to his father complaining about a girlfriend, and he had said something to her he is not proud of. His dad told him that a relationship is a separate entity. There is you, there is her, and there is the thing between you, and that third thing has to be cared for. Mark still remembers exactly where he was sitting.

That is the point of this one. A father's influence does not switch off when his kids leave the house.

IN THIS EPISODE

• The car conversation: a relationship is a separate entity • Why a father's influence does not stop at eighteen • "Nothing will ever divide this family," and what it did to hear it • Learning to drive, the standard lines, and the egg under the gas pedal • The construction site rule, and what happened when mom found out • His father's first marriage, and "that's what I learned from it" • Getting caught, and the grace his dad offered on the drive home

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