01:10:19.700Yeah. She slipped up in a communication when she was, uh, uh, you know how they, how people who are, um, trying to cover up a lie, how, how they'll slip sometimes because they're in the moment.
01:10:38.840Uh, she was carrying on about something about her victimhood and how my dad was always cheating on her and whatnot and how horrible it was for her.
01:10:50.860And then she slipped and said, and, you know, and then that's what caused me to, um, to, you know, do what I did to you when you were two.
01:11:04.460And up until that point, I thought that I had fallen on the stairs.
01:11:17.440Or did you ever get to the point where she, especially when you got older, you got taller than her or whatever, where you did the catch the hand where she tried to hit you and you caught a wrist?
01:11:43.440And then my, that was the one moment my dad stepped in.
01:11:46.820So I thought my dad up to that point was just, just scared of her or something, but he was enabling her.
01:11:55.480Uh, and at that moment I figured it out because he said, well, if you don't hit a woman and if you hit your mother, cause I was, I was holding her hands and she was like really hard trying to get out.
01:12:08.480And, um, he told me to let go of her and I said, well, she's going to hit me.
01:12:14.060And he said, you don't, you don't touch a woman.
01:12:17.020And if you do that, uh, you gotta, you're going to deal with me.
01:12:20.600And my dad at that time could have took me cause I was 14 or something, 15, maybe, maybe.
01:12:58.360And then, and then he, what he would do is he would start businesses and then it was like my job to, to work the business and try to figure out how to make it work.
01:13:14.020So, um, usually it was involved with him just telling a big story to somebody that had some money and then, uh, um, taking their money and then not doing anything.
01:13:28.040And he got, um, probably, he took my money too.
01:13:35.260I, I, we couldn't pay the rent and stuff.
01:13:38.420So I went to work very young, uh, and, and that's how he enforced it was my mother would come and just physically take my money from me.
01:13:49.180So do you, do you still have a relationship with your mom at all?
01:13:53.140Or did you have to end up cutting her off?
01:13:55.160Um, after the incident where I found out that she had broke my leg, I figured it sounds strange, but it didn't dawn on me until then that I wasn't the problem.
01:14:17.120And, um, yeah, I started figuring it out in my twenties when I had kids and your kids reached these milestones and you're like, oh my God, she was doing X, Y, or Z at this time.
01:14:28.040I can't imagine doing this to my children.
01:14:32.380And, um, then you're like, okay, well, maybe I was just an exceptionally bad kid.
01:15:05.320I married kind of a combination of my mom and my dad, which is the worst of both worlds.
01:15:12.380And so, and as, as people who've gone through this know, that's, that's what you do.
01:15:18.080You, you, you subconsciously, or I was subconsciously trying to fix my parents by marrying the traits that they had.
01:15:28.960And so I, um, found out the, the nice thing about the whole situation is, is that my ex-wife trained me in life.
01:15:44.400Like, I found, I found out everything through her, all of the actions that she took, because now I'm an adult and I have, um, when I'm married to her, I have autonomy and I could see everything that I was.
01:15:59.960And I, and I, and I could go out and, and make money and I could go out and, and I could negotiate and, and, you know, and take a nonviolent approach to arguments.
01:16:12.580And it's, and I learned through that, that if somebody enjoys violence, um, they will engage in violence and it doesn't matter how, how you approach.
01:16:26.780I'm going to ask you one more question.
01:16:29.140So from your, did you deal with a whole lot from your girlfriends, like a whole lot of foolishness from your, from your wives and girlfriends?
01:16:38.980Because situations like that, you, it, it kind of raised you with the mindset that you should, like the, the virtue of a man or the virtue of a person is just enduring.
01:16:52.360Were you one of those kinds of people where you, you, you just endure people will say, how, how are you so patient?
01:17:04.160I knew it and it was primarily because I fell for my mom's victim stories.
01:17:13.380If, you know, if, if she hadn't something happened, something hadn't happened to her or something, you know, if my dad wasn't such an ass or whatever, that everything would be fine.
01:17:25.520Um, or that she wouldn't have to do these things.
01:17:27.880And I, I, for example, I thought that, I thought she was a clean freak.
01:17:31.820Um, growing up because she had me clean the house first.
01:17:38.240My family was six people and I was the house, the housekeeper for the entire family.
01:17:46.180And she would come home and with this bright red carpet and cats with white fur and the fur would show up really easy.
01:17:55.320And so I was really fastidious about cleaning all of it and everything.
01:18:49.980So, you know, it, in the, to answer Doug's previous question, you don't really ever get over it because what people don't understand about this sort of thing is if you're abused at, at, as a toddler.
01:19:09.440So, uh, your world isn't safe, you don't, uh, socialize properly with other children.
01:20:23.660And, you know, um, it's good to tell stories like this.
01:20:27.460Cause like before I, you know, I used to have a mentorship group and a lot of the guys I used to mentor, we would just share stories.
01:20:34.680And it would, you know, they were younger than me and I would share my story and it would, it would kind of help them make sense of their situation.
01:20:41.940And I'm pretty sure that your story is going to help a lot of guys in the chat and who are going to watch this make sense of their situation.
01:55:17.620Well, they might as well get damaged by you.
01:55:20.120You might as well, you might as well be one of the ones damaging and maybe eventually you'll hit one that's like, oh, I might be the second guy she slept.
01:55:47.820I just said maybe, maybe like, okay, there's the girls that have a high school boyfriend and then they obviously have to leave him to do better.