Not Without My Sister

We asked for your quandaries and you sent them to us – so what excellent solutions did we come up with?! You'll have to listen and find out… Once more (with feeling): if you haven't already, please leave us a five-star rating (and a review!) wherever you get your podcasts. It helps other people find us and helps push us up the charts, which is more important to us than it should be.  And sign...

Beatrice and fam are off to Disney for the week – and she's been asking everyone she meets for advice on what to bring and how to entertain her children on the flight. What is she doing with that advice?! God knows: she's definitely not taking any of it on board! Once more (with feeling): if you haven't already, please leave us a five-star rating (and a review!) wherever you get your podcasts. It...

How much would YOU want to get paid to work exclusively as a human milk-provider? Could a family of six survive on one human's breastmilk alone? What would we stock up on, during our last supermarket sweep pre-apocalypse?! We're asking all the important questions in this ep! This is just one of the weekly episodes that is exclusive to Patreon subscribers. If you'd like to get in on the action, hea...

It's time to dust off your flannels, order your pumpkin spice lattes and rock your burgundy lipstick, b***hes! Or something. Is autumn your proverbial jam?! FIGHT with us in the comments about which season is best and whether or not you're a PSL devotee. Once more (with feeling): if you haven't already, please leave us a five-star rating (and a review!) wherever you get your podcasts. It helps oth...

Is Beatrice really a closet conservative? Who's the cat person in this relationship? And what does it mean to be a cat person, anyway?  We asked on Instagram for people's assumptions about us and we are answering them in this week's episode. PLUS, we'll be reacting to more, juicier assumptions in this Friday's Patreon episode at Patreon.com/notwithoutmysister, where you'll get an extra b...

Virgin River Season 4 is out and we. are. riveted. Well… not exactly, but we're watching! This truly is the show that has everything. Drug dealers! Child abduction! Traumatic brain injury! Stroke! A bar shooting! PTSD! Unrequited love! A hardworking single mom! A bereaved midwife! Ye Olde Renaissance Faire! A pilot having a heart attack while flying a small plane! Young love! Old love! Believe it...

Why is it so much easier to do hard things on behalf of someone else, than it is to do them for yourself? Is it just us?!  We discuss calling in sick, cancelling appointments and special ordering bread (totally normal behaviour) in this episode of NWMS. Oh AND! We didn't get nominated for a THING in the Irish Podcast Awards! An outrage! A shock! An abomination!  However, you can still vo...

We're all on board with wedding lists, but is a birthday gift list ever okay? We're talking about learning important life lessons, buying gifts for kids and what birthday gifts we'd like for ourselves (even if we'd never publicise it)! Let us know what YOU think, and whether or not you'd be grateful for a little gift wish list tucked in with a kids' birthday party invitation! If you'd like MORE No...

Who knew we had so much experience to share about the act of stalking – whether in the role of victim or in the role of perpetrator (clearly Rosemary)?!  Please let us know if you've had any uncomfortably relentless would-be wooers following you from place to place, and whether you've indulged in a bit of social media stalking (and if that even counts?! or is it de rigueur when you're dating...

There's a new series out, The Summer I Got Pretty , and you'll be shocked to hear that we OBJECT to the title but also, wish we could have had the same summer experience. Instead, we've had a dramatic mosquito attack and lots of sweating – or, at least, Rosemary has. If you'd like MORE Not Without My Sister, check us out on Patreon.com/notwithoutmysister, where you'll get an extra bonus episode ea...

Age may not be anything other than a number, to paraphrase the late Aaliyah (perhaps a bad example as she married R Kelly when she was just 15 – he was 27), but it's often brought up as a reason a couple shouldn't be together, especially when the woman is the older one. We're sitting down to hash out the whys and wherefores, speaking about our personal experiences being the cougars in our marriage...

We may not have made this quite clear enough but Beatrice is a High Powered Executive and has been having a few extremely busy weeks, so I thought I'd take a load off her plate and record an episode with Liam Geraghty, producer extraordinaire AND my ex-boyfriend. We chat about staying friends after a breakup, the difference between breaking up with girls and breaking up with boys, and how we almos...

On this episode of Not Without My Sister, we're talking about the major case of the blues that inevitably happens after that first visit home, post-emigration. Rosemary went back to Dublin and ate rings around her but she's STILL not happy, coming to terms for perhaps the first time with the fact that she won't be moving back to Ireland. If you'd like MORE Not Without My Sister, check us out on Pa...

With Rosemary at home in Ireland and Beatrice up to her oxters at work, we're taking a short two-week break to gather our thoughts. In the meantime, Rosemary's got some podcast recommendations to share. But remember to come back to us on June 7th! Once more (with feeling): if you haven't already, please leave us a five-star rating (and a review!) wherever you get your podcasts. It helps other peop...

Rosemary has been reading a lot of feel-good romance while Beatrice has been following her cop shows with a lil' work-related non-fiction chaser (and The Flight Attendant comes highly recommended).  We're back with a few cultural recommendations in this week's podcast, from romantic comedy books to the Kardashians on Hulu and more! Once more (with feeling): if you haven't already, please leav...

What's it like, being a very tall Midwestern man, dating an average heighted Irish woman? Rosemary sat down with her husband Brandin to ask him all about the cultural differences, from his point of view – and he gave some fairly scathing impressions of Ireland (having never been there…). The obvious question now is: when's Don's turn?! We beseech you: if you haven't already, please leave us a five...

When Rosemary found a single piece of bacon left in the pack, she reached out in an attempt to feel less alone: what are the shit things YOUR partners do?! We discuss the best responses, and find ourselves with a mystery on our hands: why are Irish men so obsessed with milk?! We beseech you: if you haven't already, please leave us a five-star rating AND a review, even one line!, wherever you liste...

Is therapy something that ONLY those of us with diagnosed mental illnesses – or difficult partners – should look into, or would it be beneficial for everyone?! (We'd also like to acknowledge the barriers to accessing therapy for a large swathe of the population and how it SHOULD be readily available to all!) *** If you like the podcast, why not give yourself the gift of an extra episode each...

Now that the dust has settled on Beatrice's CRUEL AND UNUSUAL April Fool's joke on Rosemary, we're asking, what's the best (worst) April Fool's we've ever inflicted on someone, and why is Beatrice so downright mean? Plus: Rosemary reveals that once you tell her there's SCIENCE behind your lies she will absolutely believe you. Cows <3 coconuts, after all. ** If you like the podcast, why not give...

This week on Not Without My Sister we want to spotlight Petrified - an Irish horror fiction podcast. Petrified tells the chilling tales of ordinary people encountering the supernatural, and their terrifying fates. It's produced by our very own Liam Geraghty and written/directed by Beatrice's former Dublin Youth Theatre chum - Peter Dunne! This particular episode is called Up the Airy Mountain. It'...

What makes one person attractive – and another person, well, not? And why is it that some people (Rosemary) fancy everyone, while others are more, well, selective? And is a bird's beak flexible?! WHO CAN ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS?! Please let us know what makes someone attractive to YOU, and get in touch with any and all of your bird knowledge as we clearly have none of our own. If you like the podcast...

Our Mother is an angel – but she is not an easy person to buy gifts for. We're talking Mother's Day treats, how we feel about Hallmark holidays (do wedding anniversaries count?!) and what exactly our mum hated about the one (1!) facial she's ever had. By the way, the face cream she swears by? That would be the Boots Traditional Skin Cream (RIP), for which there is a change.org petition we're not e...

We don't quite understand the meaning of Easter – at least, the bunny-and-eggs aspect of it – but that doesn't stop us waxing lyrical about the chocolatiest religious celebration of all. We'd love to hear how you've explained the concept of crucifixion to your children (if you have), and what your favourite Easter eggs are! If you'd like to support the podcast you can sign up to our Patreon for $5...

When you think about it – and even when you don't – job-hunting is a lot like dating. And recruiting is a lot like dating. And catfishing is a lot like when you say "proficient at Excel" even though you have zero clue how to do anything other than make to-do lists on Excel and never notice when there are extra sheets to look at. We're talking about being duped by interviewees; lying on our CVs and...

It's been five months since Rosemary gave birth – and of course you haven't heard the last of it! We're talking about recovery, expectations vs reality, the post-baby bubble and more in this kind of "life update" episode of Not Without My Sister! Join the club on Patreon for $5 a month and you'll get access to our full back catalogue as well as ad-free weekly episodes AND exclusive bonus episodes...