Till The Wheels Fall Off
Till The Wheels Fall Off (TWFO) podcast is hosted by Matt and Paige Robinson. TWFO focuses primarily on the relationship dynamics between spouses and partners of alcoholics or addicts and ways to best navigate the difficulties of codependent, addicted, unstable, and narcissistic behavior. The program is enjoyable and informative for anyone seeking self-betterment, inspiration, perspective, or direction with themes ranging from boundaries, recovery, marriage, and parenting with tons of humor built in. With over twenty years of experience in codependency recovery, addiction recovery, mental health battles, and navigating life's hurdles, the duo offers a valuable and unique perspective that is both inspiring and relatable.
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Episodes
291 episodes
#291 - Mindset Monday: The “What About Her?” Trap
In this Mindset Monday, I’m calling out the most common, most immature move men make after they finally start doing the bare minimum: demanding their spouse regulate perfectly while they’re still paying off a decade of damage. You don’t ...
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#290 - What Recovery Gets Wrong: The Partner's Side of the Story
The recovery world loves to talk about healing, but who is it really built for?This episode was originally released in May 2025, and we are bringing it back because the conversation is just as relevant now as it was then. In it, Matt and...
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#289 - Mindset Monday: Celebrating 25 Amazing Years, and What It Took to Get Here
Today is a big one. Paige and I are celebrating 25 years together, and I’m recording this Mindset Monday in that headspace, reflective, grateful, and honestly a little stunned that we’ve lived so many lifetimes inside one relationship.We...
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#288 - Paige's Perspective: Why Everything Feels So Urgent
In this episode of Paige’s Perspective, Paige explores why so many of us feel like we are constantly running out of time, even when nothing is actually on fire. From the nervous system’s need to stay in survival mode to the fear of making the w...
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#287 - Mindset Monday: It Wasn't The Addiction, It Was Me
A listener posted a question in our free TWFO Facebook community that I’ve heard a hundred times in recovery spaces: “You have to separate the person from the addiction. That wasn’t them.” And I get why people love that line. It reduce...
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#286 - Paige's Perspective: You Can Restart the Day
Some mornings feel like a personal attack. You are late. You are out of coffee. The house is a mess. Your kid’s shirt is dirty. Your nervous system is already fried and suddenly it feels like the whole day is ruined.In this Paige’s Persp...
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#285 - Your Kids Are Watching
Your kids are watching you. Not in a cute way. In a blueprint way.In this episode, we talk about the moment that punched Matt in the gut: watching our son at practice miss a shot, make a shot, and immediately scan the room for Dad’s face...
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#284 - Mindset Monday: Why Some People Never Grow
In this Mindset Monday episode, the discussion takes on a common belief from men that sounds reasonable on the surface but falls apart under scrutiny: “Why should I have to change? You knew who I was when you married me.” The episode unpacks wh...
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#283 - Paige's Perspective: Being the Villain in Someone Else’s Story
No one wants to be the villain.But what if being seen as the bad guy is actually a sign that you are growing?In this Paige’s Perspective episode, Paige reframes the idea of the villain era and explains why setting boundaries, taki...
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#282 - Red Flags, Fear, and the Standard We’ve Accepted
In this episode, Matt and Paige move through three conversations that are deeply connected and hard to ignore once you see them clearly.First, we talk about red flags that get mislabeled as “just the addiction.” Weaponized vows, religiou...
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#281 - Mindset Monday: The Cost of Becoming Better
In this Mindset Monday, I’m walking through a handful of quotes I found in an Instagram carousel and breaking down what they actually mean in real life. Not the fluffy, motivational poster version. The version that applies to sobriety, rebuildi...
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#280 - Paige's Perspective: The Struggle is Real, But It Doesn't Have to Be
The struggle is real, but it doesn’t have to control your life.In this episode of Paige’s Perspective, Paige breaks down how everyday struggles like lack of motivation, emotional exhaustion, inconsistent routines, exercise resis...
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#279 - Stop Asking. Start Trusting Yourself.
Trusting yourself sounds simple until you try to do it. If you grew up being told what to do, spent years in systems that trained you to follow rules, or lived in a relationship where you got second-guessed, criticized, or controlled, self-trus...
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#278 - Mindset Monday: Boundaries Don’t Work (Like You Think They Do)
In this Mindset Monday, Matt drops a handful of hard-earned lessons from the last month, pulled straight from the notes app, the place where the real thoughts live before the world distracts you out of them.He breaks down why boundaries ...
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#277 - Anger Part 3: The Anger You Feel After You’ve Left the Relationship
In Part 3 of our anger series, we talk about the kind of anger that shows up after the relationship ends, when there’s more space, more clarity, and for a lot of people, a brutal realization of what you actually lived through. This is the anger...
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#276 - Paige's Perspective: From What If to Even If - The Shift That Changes Everything
Today’s episode is a re-release of one of Paige’s favorite Paige’s Perspective episodes, Even If - brought back with a new intro by Matt.This conversation gets to the heart of something we talk about often at TWFO...
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#275 - Mindset Monday: Empathy Isn’t a Shallow Pool - Why Recovery Education Is Incomplete
In this Mindset Monday, Matt talks about a gap in the recovery world that almost nobody wants to name: families are expected to learn everything about addiction, but addicts are rarely required to learn the same depth about the damage addiction...
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#274 - Anger Part 2: When Everything’s Finally “Good”… Why Am I So Angry?
Many partners expect relief when sobriety begins.Instead, they may feel confused, guilty, and angry when everything is finally going well.In this episode, Matt and Paige explore why anger often surfaces months or even years into reco...
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#273 - Paige's Perspective: Shame, Shaming, and Accountability
Most partners think they’re “holding someone accountable,” but what they’re really doing is chasing accountability, forcing awareness, and slipping into shaming without realizing it. This episode cuts through all of that.Paige breaks dow...
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#272 - Mindset Monday: Holiday Relapses, Boundaries, Mourning, and Hope
In this Mindset Monday, Matt gets real about why the holidays are a pressure cooker for people in recovery and for the families who love them. He shares hard personal memories from his last Christmas in active addiction and his first Christmas ...
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#271 - Anger Part 1: What Your Anger Is Trying To Tell You In Active Addiction
In this first episode of our three part anger series, we talk about what anger really is when you are still with someone in active addiction or someone sober, but unhealed. Anger is not a flaw to fix or a sign that you are the problem. It is a ...
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#270 - Mindset Monday: Questions Men Secretly Ask
In this Mindset Monday, Matt sits down with the questions men usually ask in private. These are the messages he gets from guys in crisis who are trying to get sober, repair their marriage, and figure out what it actually means to be a good man....
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#269 - Paige's Perspective: Survival Mode Isn’t a Free Pass: It’s a Challenge
In this Paige’s Perspective, I talk about something I see online all the time. There is a lot of content that normalizes staying stuck. People laugh about being overwhelmed or blame survival mode for how they treat others, and it removes the ac...
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#268 - Mindset Monday: Scared of Failing or Scared of Succeeding
In this episode Matt breaks down why people struggling with addiction and people in relationships with addicts keep their standards low and stay stuck in the same cycles. He explains why so many men fear success more than failure, why sobriety ...
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#267 - The Truth About Trauma No One Wants to Say
We live in a world that is obsessed with asking, “Why am I like this?” and “Why are they like this?” Trauma, childhood wounds, addiction, nervous systems, attachment. All important pieces of the puzzle. But at some point, just understanding the...
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