Amira Pocher: She suffers from her children’s “daddy time”.

Most recently, Amira Pocher revealed in the previous episode of her podcast “Liebes Leben” () that the public fuss surrounding her separation from Oliver Pocher was not doing her health any good and that she had withdrawn socially. In the new episode, a conversation with her brother Hima is about another big challenge that she is currently facing: the fact that she can no longer see her two children every day is like “shock therapy”.

After Hima and Amira talk about film recommendations and tips for successful game nights at the beginning of the new episode, the conversation shifts thematically to their grandparents. “It’s Christmas time and it would be appropriate to go to the grandparents again,” says Hima. Both remember how they used to spend every summer with grandma and grandpa in Carinthia as children.

In the course of the conversation, Hima suggests that Amira should also send her two sons to their grandparents for two weeks in the summer. A suggestion that is not well received by Amira: “Am I crazy? Two weeks without me?” To which Hima objects: “But we did that too. That’s nice for them when they look back on it later.”

“Dad time” is “a real challenge” for Amira Pocher

For Amira, sending her children alone to their grandparents is out of the question: “I would do that. But I’m sticking with it.” She is now forced to give up her children because of her separation from Pocher. “It’s tough for me when I had the children here with me for a week, ten days and then it’s daddy time. That’s a real challenge for me,” she tells her brother.

If she walked past the children’s room during this time and no one was there, tears would flow. “Or when I lie down in my bed in the evening and then there’s the little one’s comfort blanket or a toy car because we cuddled together in the morning. Then I stand there and think to myself: What’s going on here? Where are you? That’s really hard for me.” Before they separated, she was separated from them for a maximum of two days. “Maximum. And then you always looked at your cell phone and always called and asked,” says Hima, classifying the situation. “But I miss them and I don’t want them to have to miss me,” Amira replies.

Hima’s argument that mothers and fathers also need a few days of “me time” every now and then is not entirely conclusive for Amira as a mother: “I need that too. When I take her to kindergarten in the morning, I also think to myself: Bye. But after an hour at the latest they could come back. I’ve already managed that, a few days. They were with dad for a week and I still have to see them during that time. At least 20 minutes and give them a kiss.”