Today cohost Dylan Dreyer shared a new update on her divorce from ex Brian Fichera.
“As you know, I’m recently divorced, so my mom has been staying with me for months at a time,” Dreyer, 45, began on the Thursday, October 15, episode of her “Parent Chat” podcast, reflecting on mom Linda’s support following her breakup. “We’ve figured out this dance over the last several months of her living with me of what I do versus what she does, and it’s a lot easier for me to find the patience and to handle the wildness of the boys when they first come home for school.”
Dreyer and Fichera, 39, were married from 2012 to 2025 when they separated after two decades of marriage. The TV meteorologist, who shares three sons with Fichera, filed for divorce in March.
While Dreyer and Fichera figured out a coparenting arrangement, it’s admittedly been helpful to have her mother around to lend a helping hand.
“My mom likes to have the lunch boxes handed to her [when they kids get home], and she washes them out and she cleans them all, which is so great,” Dreyer gushed. “When she’s not there and there is no one else to do the dirty work, literally, it’s just one more thing that I have to do. This way, I can focus on the kids and she focuses on the mess. It’s like this little dance we do in the kitchen that works out so perfectly.”
Dreyer noted that her mom has “pretty much [stuck] to” her household rules, which are different from her own upbringing.
“It’s a lot different because my mom didn’t raise us the same way,” Dreyer acknowledged on Thursday’s episode. “There were a lot more rules in my house, there was no goofing off at dinner. Like, you did what your parents told you to do, and if not, there were punishments for that.”
She continued, “I recognize that all our situations are different, and I’m blessed that my mom is retired and she can stay with me and, kind of, give up her life back home for a little while.”
Linda, for her part, has realized that helping with Dreyer’s three sons is a departure from her parenting experience.
“I can say that having the three this close together is more of a — not chore — but challenge,” she said on Dreyer’s podcast. “You have two, no matter which two, [and then] you throw a third one into the mix. It can [be] a lot of chaos. … You just never know, because one plays on the other, one instigates more than the other, one gets louder than the other, so they’re all competing against each other. It’s not for my attention. It’s just because that’s who they are, that’s what kids do.”
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