Ep 19 - Unconditional Love and Identity Theft: Jamie Beth Cohen on Her Dad

I Hate You. What's For Dinner? · Sep 17, 2026 · 1h 9m

A lot of us end up spending a significant part of our adult lives unpacking our childhoods.

We obviously do a lot of that in therapy, for ourselves and the parents we work with. Some, like our guest, use their creative work as part of processing their past.

Today, we’re talking with Rob’s lifelong friend, author Jamie Beth Cohen. In our conversation, we revisit Jamie and Rob’s coming of age on the East Coast in the 80s and 90s, and do some speculating on what it’s like to be a kid these days. We also talk about the complicated work of conceptualizing parents who had both good and really…