00:02:58.340now we literally sit alone in a room hit hit record and broadcast yeah i mean granted i'm as
00:03:06.900guilty as the next person but i definitely think that there's something odd about just wanting to
00:03:13.400share so much personal life with just anybody like this guy i mean my first response is before he even
00:03:21.620starts talking is oh you want us all to know you're single again okay check uh you're adorable
00:03:27.420you're adorable so clearly you know no problem i'm sure tons of people immediately reached into
00:03:34.680his dms and he hasn't even really announced anything yet i'm wondering if maybe i find
00:03:40.800that announcements like this are for couples that built their brand together that's fair
00:03:45.900you're like i don't know i don't know if this is the case because i've never seen him before but
00:03:51.060yeah like this to me looks like i don't know if you ever this might be like a my generation thing
00:03:56.700when david well i'm definitely not of your generation david dobrik and eliza broke up
00:04:02.660like broke the internet because they were like an internet couple and when they broke we all broke
00:04:08.660too the equivalent of that would be like if chip and joanna gaines broke up yeah and and my people
00:04:15.760would be heartbroken so i got married um may 17th of this year oh brand new and shortly before that
00:04:24.940my wife or ex-wife started a new job and that's important to know so we end up moving into our
00:04:35.120apartment together in mid-july i believe it's july 16th between the marriage when we got married in
00:04:41.520that time we were living with my parents so we move in about two weeks after that my wife has
00:04:47.460just a breakdown comes in my office has a breakdown about i feel like we might have rushed into this
00:04:52.280we did things too soon blah blah blah blah and it wasn't like a we need to split it was just i'm
00:04:56.780freaking out say okay let's talk through it um and about a week later she apologized says hey i think
00:05:03.220i was just having kind of a mental breakdown i'm like hey that's fine you know i get it in scary
00:05:07.040times you know i had a freak out uh i think it was like the third night that we were sitting in the
00:05:10.380apartment just about like you know missing my family um so sometimes what what is with
00:05:18.120i don't know i want to hear like i'm so tired of every little thing just just making people fall
00:05:27.460apart like where where is the i don't know the the mental toughness like these people were
00:05:35.040getting married and yet they're falling apart over getting being in their own place or whatever
00:05:42.120like this is i'm already like i just dislike this guy this is this is before the kids have even come
00:05:48.440yet exactly like there's no stress yet there's nothing happening yeah let's and this is influent
00:05:55.560let's time goes on and uh now we're in august and there's another freak out and it's i feel
00:06:04.680like we rush into this bubble well we meet with our premarital counselor well our counselors i
00:06:09.160guess uh isn't it crazy that our generation we're not even married yet we're getting counseling
00:06:14.040was that that's not a good sign was that a thing like 20 years ago we did fine we did fine
00:06:26.840counseling was like deal with it exactly your parents if you felt like you needed counseling
00:06:33.800in in my generation it was or in my parents even it was like uh you need to go home to your wife
00:06:40.520your your your wife needs you like or you know nope you you made this bed you're gonna go home
00:06:46.120and you're gonna you're gonna be there 151 okay so he's got 55 000 followers interesting it might
00:06:53.560it might have been like a internet couple or something they're like hey this is super common
00:06:58.840You know, we see this in young married couples all the time.
00:07:02.240Let's, you know, set some some expectations for one another just so you guys can help each other out.
00:07:06.140And we did. And I think what do you see as the problems that couples have early on in marriage?
00:07:13.760I think I think the biggest problem is they.
00:07:18.920And I mean, I got married young, make no mistake, like I I got married young, but I was like one of those who was like a little too mature for her age.
00:07:26.740So it was like, well, of course she's getting married.
00:07:28.780And of course she wants to go on and start a family and all that stuff.
00:07:31.420But what I see with like couples now who are getting married, and this is true even into
00:07:38.460I mean, it's a, it's a broad spectrum.
00:07:40.880I would say that they are so used to being coddled for lack of a better way to say it,
00:07:49.340but they're so used to living under this super protection of essentially my generation and
00:07:56.300the generation ahead of me of parents that they genuinely don't know how to do anything. They
00:08:03.880don't know how to do stuff. So it is, I could see it would be very scary to have your own place,
00:08:12.400be responsible for another human being. You're suddenly supposed to act like an adult when
00:08:18.780you've never had any lessons or experience in being an adult. Yeah, that's true. And that's
00:08:24.840why, I mean, I have, I have to pull the mom card here. Like I have kids from 26 to 18 and I always
00:08:32.960said, I'm not raising children. I'm raising my children to be adults and they're all productive
00:08:39.060members of society. They're all, you know, I mean, we all have our stuff, but like my kids don't get
00:08:46.460scared for being alone and having their own rent. Yeah, no, I think, um, cause I grew up in a pretty
00:08:53.000well-off family so we had nannies and stuff so there's a lot of stuff i did not know how to do
00:08:57.720until i became an adult and so i just spent a lot of my early 20s like figuring out how to do it
00:09:03.960like i did not know how to cook i was messy like it was just bad
00:09:10.280but but i don't see a lot of people taking initiative to like learn it on their own no
00:09:15.960believe it because i was so messy growing up she'll go to my apartment she's like what hat
00:09:19.800like how is this clean now and i'm like i love that i'm sorry i'm sorry i didn't mean to torture
00:09:25.400you guys all right let's see my head things are going great all right so right now the marriage
00:09:32.300is going okay they crash out a little bit but it's nothing too bad okay so monday september 15th
00:09:38.060rolls around and i leave work a little early she tells me that she wants me to come home so we can
00:09:41.800talk and so we go home or i go home and i get there and she's like hey like i'm not ready to
00:09:46.180talk just yet go play the game so i'm like okay i play the game for an hour go back in hey i'm
00:09:50.240not ready to talk just yet go play the game okay go back in for now whatever so basically she tells
00:09:54.580me um like hey i uh like i don't know i don't want to talk about this i think that it's it's
00:10:01.280just not worth talking about and me being an anxious person i'm like well is it is it something
00:10:04.980small or is it something like you you want to do you think if a girl does that that's a shit test
00:10:09.340to see how he reacts i think i think a lot of things girls do is a shit test so i'm gonna say
00:10:14.480yes. But I also think that this is a couple, of course, only hearing his side, a couple that
00:10:23.540genuinely doesn't know how to communicate or express their feelings. They're so in their
00:10:30.660heads. She could probably turn on a camera or her phone and give every explanation for what
00:10:39.180she's dealing with she could probably talk it out and have a wonderful conversation but because it's
00:10:45.360another human being she's completely incapable yeah and my generation because i got social media
00:10:52.420when i was in eighth grade okay he looks younger than me so i mean they like we have a whole
00:10:59.600generation of people that don't talk they text i think 50 percent of gen z communication is a
00:11:04.540digital. Isn't that crazy? I believe it. It's not higher. Yeah. And she's just kind of like,
00:11:11.240I don't really know. I don't know. I, I, I feel like, you know, there's just so many things
00:11:17.680happen so quick and I don't know. Well, either way, um, we, we talked through things a little
00:11:23.420bit. I think she can tell that I'm upset. She could tell that I was upset. So she just kind
00:11:27.500of dialed back. Maybe, I don't know. I don't know where her mind space is or head space is
00:11:30.620well the following saturday rolls around everything's all hunky-dory for me i go with
00:11:35.340my buddy we we put out some bags of corn and stuff and then um i get home that's such a guy
00:11:41.120i think just said everything's fine for me everything everything i was fine i guess she
00:11:50.380wasn't when i get divorced that's like always like i thought we were good you know exactly
00:11:56.380exactly i had no idea we had the issues she's like hey when you need me home tell her and she's
00:12:02.420okay great like i'm gonna take a shower i'll see you when you're home i'll get home she's got her
00:12:06.040bags packed hey i'm gonna stay with my mom i need some space away i might be back wednesday i don't
00:12:12.600know uh can we talk nope gone out there gone poof gone uh no contact that sunday that monday
00:12:21.340then tuesday night i finally call her now mind you in between this she's i'm over at my best
00:12:26.240friend's house like i don't know what's going on i'm freaking out and uh i say no contact there
00:12:32.120were a couple texts then um well she also goes over there and is with him and and his girlfriend
00:12:36.980and just talking to them and it's you know they're trying to figure out what's going on and they're
00:12:40.620asking the questions hey is there anything going on it might be calls and is there anything you
00:12:44.100she's like no nothing well so tuesday night i call her and this is what do you think's her issue
00:12:52.460as of now what's your guess i think that she is thinking about a guy that she should have dated
00:13:00.900and said she should have given another chance she maybe he reached out like i i honestly think
00:13:08.140she's disappointed that she's locked herself into this one yeah yeah all right let's see i'll meet
00:13:16.980the date yeah so tuesday the 23rd of september i call her and things seem well and i'm like hey
00:13:24.440do you want to go out tomorrow she's like yeah so her and i go out we have a great dinner and
00:13:29.900she tells me like look i've decided i'm not going to give up i'm not going to run away like we're
00:13:33.700going to work on this together i can't i can't leave you i don't want to leave you i'm not going
00:13:36.940to leave you awesome but you need to do this and this and this and this and this and mind you
00:13:44.080everything's been fairly normal for me up to this point up until her leaving um other than all these
00:13:50.760freak outs he keeps having also make no mistake like this guy already is kind of annoying me
00:13:58.900in that i would not be able to be in relationship with him granted he's like 30 years younger than
00:14:05.180me but still like just the he's a little too feelings driven anyway he's having all these
00:14:13.400freak outs he's anxious he's having all these problems dealing with the fact that they're
00:14:19.880married and all these things and yet he's I don't really I thought I thought he was he kind of was
00:14:27.240saying he was fine and she was crashing out yeah you're saying that's not like the other side well
00:14:32.780yeah he was fine when he's putting deer corn out but like he has had a couple of different times
00:14:39.440like on day three of them in their own place like he was he was freaking out and I'm like
00:14:44.360what does that mean first of all what does that actually look like are you internally freaking
00:14:49.040out are you just having some stress are you like showing like showing your yourself to her
00:14:56.340what does this look like whenever you two are each freaking out because he keeps kind of using this
00:15:01.960blanket yeah that's true what what type of crash out we talking yeah how crashed out
00:15:08.400let's see i want to see what what is her issue yeah so i put myself in therapy i get couples
00:15:14.100therapy for the two of us i'm paying out the butt for it but you know whatever oh no you're going to
00:15:18.320couples therapy in the first year not a good sign i just can't imagine that it ends in like i've
00:15:24.600never you know you're you tell me have you ever had a couple go to therapy and it get better
00:15:29.680Nope, I haven't. And I, and I'm, and I say that I'm not anti-therapy, but no, oftentimes, because once you are there, I think that there's already so many issues and there's so much resentment and hate and anger and bitterness that therapy is, is almost a lost cause, I think.
00:15:53.780Yeah, it's better to start, it's just better to start anew.
00:53:49.960you really do marry the family unless you go to such an extreme where you completely divide
00:53:57.640yourself okay let's see if we i actually haven't seen this yet so let's see if this if we agree or
00:54:03.480disagree okay number of audience members who are going through this right now so chris and brie
00:54:11.400what's going on yeah absolutely so i grew up in a very performance oriented household it was
00:54:18.360attend an ivy league school um get the money the power the status be someone that we can feel proud
00:54:24.360of and brie very much did not come from that background did you have other siblings in the
00:54:28.120household too yeah i had two younger brothers okay so i was the oldest i was trailblazing in that way
00:54:32.680so tell us again you've not had contacts with your your parents now for four years four years
00:54:36.600that's right so parents and siblings that's right okay nobody in the family uh because the thing is
00:54:42.360if you have a domineering mother they send the other siblings after you true yeah to control you
00:54:47.800we'll see if i we'll see because my guess it's either going to be the wife manipulating the boy
00:54:52.940to get away from the family or the mother being overly controlling so we're going to see which
00:54:58.620one i think it is there's some extended family but not not in the core family yeah that's right
00:55:02.960all right and so when brie and i first got together we very much felt like she was remember
00:55:09.840my parents were apathetic towards her um they were not super interested in getting to know her and
00:55:14.220they didn't like her yeah yeah that's that's the feeling that we got that's the short answer that's
00:55:18.780that's the feeling like her they didn't like her yeah and the way that that really surfaced was a
00:55:22.780was uh what we perceived as a disinterest in getting to genuinely know her yeah and for you
00:55:28.060know while we started dating so be it but as it became clear that this was a real relationship
00:55:35.660that this was an intense relationship that we were in love and i said this is the woman i'm
00:55:38.860to marry and as we moved into that more serious realm it went from what we perceived as apathy
00:55:46.300to more of we don't like this and the way that that took form for us was my parents we found
00:55:53.660through friends were scheduling lunches to have conversation with my friends where the topic was
00:55:59.660we're worried about chris that was the first thing and then it became can we delay this engagement or
00:56:04.940Or can we ask your friends? Yes. Or can and can we take this marriage?
00:56:08.720What's your take? Almost like an intervention. Yeah.
00:56:12.580Do you think the wife is that bad or it's the parents? I think that
00:56:16.920I think that what he's saying is fair, that it doesn't sound like the parents
00:56:21.120really even gave her a chance to even get to know her.
00:56:24.980Yeah. And it's his choice to make, you know, I mean,
00:56:29.280I've had it like there's been points where I maybe didn't
00:56:33.400like the siblings you know because i'm one of ten so yeah i i didn't maybe approve or like the
00:56:40.600siblings significant other but it's not really my choice to make and if you know there's been
00:56:46.360times where maybe i dated somebody they didn't like and i appreciated the ability to make my
00:56:50.760own mistake you know uh because you're the one that's gonna have to be accountable like you're
00:56:55.800the one that's if if it's really a bad fit you'll have to deal with the consequence no one else
00:56:59.800Well, and I'm an only child, so I've dealt with none of that. But in my own mothering and my own children, there have been times when I've had to say, here's what I said. So I sit my kid down, my adult child, and I say, I have something to tell you. You can take this advice or you could not take this advice. Either way, I will respect you and I will follow your wish in this.
00:57:27.680but here's what I'm seeing and here's why I'm seeing that this is a bad fit and so far I'm
00:57:34.300batting a thousand to take my advice and you know are pleased in the long run but my big thing is
00:57:42.220if if this is not the way you see it and you continue with this relationship I will 1000%
00:57:50.700get on board and follow your lead and I will love this person and be the best
00:57:55.700mother-in-law or whatever, you know, in the world, but here where I see concerns. And that's where
00:58:03.520I feel like the parent should have had a private conversation, not with all of his friends,
00:58:09.580but with him. Correct. Yeah. Cause you got to let him be a man. Like you can, you can give him
00:58:14.880your two cents and say, you know, but it's just, it's when they want to control the situation so
00:58:21.180bad. And there's some things that are out of your control. Some of your kids, if you have a lot or
00:58:24.980few. But odds are you're not going to like one of their partners or their husbands or wives. Like
00:58:30.100it's just a numbers game. Well, and it's so classic. If, if parents just don't like your,
00:58:36.260your person, what do you do? You pull closer to them. You know, if you're just like, oh, that,
00:58:41.820that girl's just a hussy or whatever the case may be, whatever your opinion is of,
00:58:46.420of this other girl. If you don't like them, you're just going to make him fight for her
00:58:54.100more yeah so better to just have a conversation and say I respect your decision you're the one
00:59:00.860in this relationship yeah we're off the table um in spite of that we really worked hard to
00:59:08.140figure out what is our new family going to look like going forward like we're going to get married
00:59:12.740so when you hear that they're conspiring with your friends what'd you do you have a conversation
00:59:17.980about it yeah yeah we have a conversation about it um i very much grew up in a house where again
00:59:24.140because of that performative aspect it was also there was a compliance aspect yeah and so frankly
00:59:28.940something i've had to really work on and grow in is is being comfortable in that conflict and at
00:59:33.340the time i wasn't really i could bring that up i'm unhappy with this but am i going to really pursue
00:59:37.420that the answer is no and that's the thing you know if you're not pleasant to be around people
00:59:45.180aren't really going to tell you they're just going to walk away yeah stop talking to you
00:59:49.020so if you're not being pleasant towards your son then he's not going to fight you on it he'll just
00:59:54.220leave yeah exactly yeah and so you know we got married they were invited to our wedding they
01:00:01.180weren't part of that and for a time we were able to have this kind of tacit wasn't there something
01:00:05.820with the bridal shower or there's something that she tried to mess up the breath yeah yeah your
01:00:09.500mother-in-law did try to mess up the bridal shower yeah yeah and we were we were trying to kind of
01:00:16.460construct it i like how she looks at him like she looks at him like she's in love yeah i don't think
01:00:21.500that she's the problem here yeah it's a sign yeah that's a sign for sure yes yeah and and where the
01:00:30.700tables really turned was when we found out that brie was pregnant with our first daughter and and
01:00:35.260so we we were nervous we called up my parents we said this is what's going on and we were profoundly
01:00:41.740hurt by what we were met with which was disappointment and they were disappointed that
01:00:46.780she was pregnant that's right okay yeah they they the way that we perceived it is that they were
01:00:51.980expressing that this wasn't the pace that they expected us to move at and we had already gotten
01:00:55.420married before they had wanted and now we were having children before you know was their timeline
01:01:00.300so many mothers impose their will on the kids and at some point like you didn't have kids
01:01:06.380to be to do what you wanted like you're supposed to raise them to be their own person and make
01:01:11.100their own choices you know it's not to be a spitting image of what you like you see that a
01:01:15.740lot with um boys that become like doctors and lawyers and they like feel like they had to do
01:01:20.300it because of their family yeah they end up resenting you later if they have to live life
01:01:24.700on your terms and not theirs absolutely yeah yeah and we i left that call i said let's let's regroup
01:01:34.780let's have another conversation and when we did have that conversation and i expressed how i felt
01:01:39.500and how hurtful that was rather than being met with the empathy and some repair that we would
01:01:45.180have really hoped for i was met with um what they described as they were embarrassed by us
01:01:51.260and that was actually the last conversation that i had with my parents before going no contact
01:01:56.060four years ago and i just remember walking out of that conversation thinking for the years that
01:02:01.820brie and i have been together i've had to watch her endure that treatment of not feeling accepted
01:02:07.740and the last thing that i would want to do is bring a daughter into the world where she will
01:02:11.660oh they're leaning into each other that's cute into the world on day one and experience that
01:02:16.780treatment from her grandparents okay and so you just decided no contact so i'm curious chris
01:02:21.980so can i ask how old you are i'm 30. okay you're 30. so you grew up in a world where you said you
01:02:28.620you there was compliance and there was the household was performative so you didn't
01:02:34.300grow up in a world where you thought about you know removing yourself or distancing yourself
01:02:39.020from your parents where did the idea even come from that all right i'm not gonna i'm gonna cut
01:02:43.660you off i'm not going to talk to you anymore yeah i don't think there was one moment i think it was
01:02:47.980very incremental and i think this is a bigger trend because more parents outsourced raising
01:02:52.860their kids so there's a lot of parents that like maybe on paper looked involved but weren't actually
01:02:58.300involved yeah well and i would be willing to bet i don't know if these two met at princeton
01:03:04.380um or just kind of that's where he went to school and then they met a little bit later
01:03:09.340i would be willing to bet that this girl does not come from the family the kind of family that the
01:03:15.420parents wanted for their you know this his family i think is my take is that his family uh imagines
01:03:24.700themselves to be the joneses to be the rockefellers to be the ones that everyone
01:03:30.700looks to you know and sets an example for others and just the fact that he keeps describing them
01:03:38.860is very performative just tells me that it's all about the way it looks and not not anything
01:03:45.900with any depth it's it's about the obedience factor yeah and i think that actually it all
01:03:52.940began when when we first got together it really highlighted the emotional distance between myself
01:03:58.540and my parents and i think with each step over years and years where i saw my parents being
01:04:04.300less and less a part of my life the idea that they could not be a part of my life at all became
01:04:10.700something that seemed possible so did you reach a point where you felt if i don't comply then they
01:04:15.020they don't love me unless i'm complying that's right yeah i would say i'm not accepted unless
01:04:19.660i'm complying not not accepted okay do you have a question for one of our experts here yeah as you
01:04:24.620think about parents raising children and you know as us as parents we're not connected with our
01:04:30.460families what would be your advice for talking about that with our children right how how as
01:04:36.300parents can we best support um our children as they grow up you know you mean with their grandparents
01:04:41.740without grandparents without grandparents yeah because are you speaking to your parent you're
01:04:45.260not speaking to your parents either no why aren't you speaking to your parents i grew up in a very
01:04:50.060religious household and when i became an adult and was not necessarily having some of the same
01:04:55.900morals and values and political beliefs and religion that was a plot twist i didn't see coming
01:05:02.620uh oh i thought that they were going to say yes we're very close to her family they're amazing
01:05:09.340people oh this kind of uh but i still think the parents are out of bounds if he wants to marry
01:05:17.420a libtard it's fine you gotta yeah they're hotter usually
01:05:21.900um they basically disowned me okay oh they disowned oh my that's tough to
01:05:30.060because i have seen religious fanatics where it's like the parents are overly controlling
01:05:37.860um but i've also seen really um crash out daughters from religious households so i don't
01:05:43.920yeah i'd have to hear their side too they disowned you yeah okay all right so your
01:05:49.620children are grandparentless right now and so you're asking the question of how do you manage
01:05:54.980the grandparentlessness right and because my generation's having kids older and older that's
01:06:01.220going to be more of a reality like a lot of people aren't going to have grandparents because they'll
01:06:04.640be dead yeah yeah yeah is it a tragedy i don't think this is going to be that abnormal people
01:06:12.600just don't like i mean i didn't even i'd say past middle school i didn't really grow up with like
01:06:18.720a community like because i i went to catholic school so everything was 30 minutes so everyone
01:06:23.460was far like no one was close right i don't really see like like communities in the sense
01:06:30.340where people are like close where you live you know yeah most people don't live by their parents
01:06:35.380anymore yeah that's true that's true if as a grandchild their children are two and four
01:06:42.220you never even knew your grandparents yes but they will still have some idea of what a grandparent
01:06:48.220is. And I think for you two, it'll be very important in an age appropriate way to explain
01:06:54.680the situation. We have chosen. How would you tell them? Like, what would you do? I, I would say
01:07:02.640the best thing that you can do is have, bring other kind of mentor kind of relationships,
01:07:12.660nurturing grandparent-esque relationships end the mix very carefully but like they need that
01:07:20.920next generation of of love and guidance from somewhere that you trust um you know if possible
01:07:28.580and I think I'd say the other thing is to make sure that you are being the best hands-on parents
01:07:36.800that you can be and be nurturing so that, that, that generational thing is not a curse.
01:07:43.460It's actually something that was kind of a blip on the radar. And now, you know, I don't think
01:07:49.480that everything has to be like taking a stand on it. It can just be what it is. Like they aren't
01:07:55.880great. They aren't fabulous grandparents. So we don't go visit them, you know? Yeah. I have a
01:08:03.680friend it's kind of crazy how all this is getting aired out online yeah i have a friend he says that
01:08:09.240he would take a woman cheating over a woman that airs out their business on the internet
01:08:13.760he's like i would take infidelity you could cheat a few times a year i i completely respect that
01:08:21.120yeah then to not have this contact as a protection for our family right and as they get older you
01:08:28.180express that more i don't think they need to know like all of the painful stories that's not
01:08:33.940appropriate um but being clear that this is a choice that you may and trying to find other
01:08:40.960people in the world who can be grandparent like right so that could be a neighbor if you're a
01:08:46.980part of a social community that could be someone in that social community but being open out i also
01:08:52.560think ghosting is just so common like you ghost your best friend you go like it's just too easy
01:08:59.120now yeah like in my generation i feel like in a few generations ago people would work it out but
01:09:04.800now it's like you just move to a new city you like people ghost i mean people are i knew a girl in
01:09:10.160school she was in like a four-year relationship and he just ghosted wow she would always joke
01:09:15.840about it she'd be like because there's a few years later and she's like i don't know are we still
01:09:19.600together we never had the talk so i guess we are i mean just he went to a different school and he
01:09:28.520just ghosted wow yeah like that's not i know best friends that have ghosted they used to hang out
01:09:35.500every day ghost now people are ghosting their parents like that is nuts yeah honest is really
01:09:42.280important not trying to erase your childhood so you know not doing the thing of never talking
01:09:48.300about your childhood, never talking about your parent, share some of those good memories with
01:09:53.200them as well. So, you know, don't make it seem like these are people we don't talk about because
01:09:59.240they will have some curiosity. And if you want to have that emotionally connected relationship with
01:10:05.640them, the one that you didn't have, you'll have to be vulnerable and honest with them about that
01:10:10.240situation. So you shouldn't act like these are people we don't talk about even though you're
01:10:12.820not talking about them well they should be clear that these are people that you have chosen to not
01:10:19.020have a relationship with we don't want to make it seem like they just disappeared no one ever
01:10:23.660existed because you were raised by someone okay yeah what do you say dr gibson yeah i was just i
01:10:28.720was just thinking about when you're trying to remember asking these old broads what to do
01:10:34.440you gotta get some men in there seriously let's get some masculine guidance come on
01:10:41.440yeah children begin to be curious about yeah i don't know um i i do think over a certain age
01:10:49.260if they want i don't know if they'll even be alive with you know but oh wait hold on over
01:10:54.380a certain age you gotta let them if they want to have that relationship but you know i think that
01:11:00.580this is similar to situations where like there's been an adoption or something where there may be
01:11:07.460a genuine curiosity, you know, later on. So, you know, demonizing these people or pretending they
01:11:18.840just don't exist at all almost creates more intrigue around what really happened instead
01:11:26.360of just kind of going kind of like in a breakup we we just didn't work out we just didn't see eye
01:11:33.160to eye you know i i wish them well i just don't want to put myself in a position uh to be around
01:11:39.640them but also similarly i would say deaths you know when there is a death in the family
01:11:48.600you still need to remember that person whether whether everybody wants to talk about them all
01:11:55.560the time or not you still can't just pretend they never existed i don't think that that's the healthy
01:12:00.380way to go for like these parents raising girls or grazing raising children just to pretend like
01:12:08.360they fell out of the sky like that's yeah but as a teenage girl you're also so self-centered i don't
01:12:13.340think they'll miss much i don't know like because i grew up with um i like i spent time with my
01:12:21.580grandma but it was just a few times a year and i don't really care you don't even like i i never
01:12:27.220it sounds like your grandparents probably put so much work in that they were probably exhausted
01:12:32.560they were like all these kids oh yeah yeah because my parents had 10 and my parents my my mom's mom
01:12:40.180um had nine and my dad's dad or my dad's mom at 13. oh wow i know i know so yeah they were just
01:12:48.680we're done that is awesome holy moly you've got so many cousins you don't even know their names
01:12:54.340i don't i swear i don't i see some of them and i'm like you
01:12:58.860i'll go to like funerals or family reunions and i'm like i bet someone new every time
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01:13:34.060youtube i'm made and i'm attraction matriarch so cool do you have some men and women or like what
01:13:40.780what do you do? You know, I, I think that's why when, as I came back, I went with more of a,
01:13:47.440a middle of the road kind of frame because I do get a lot of female questions and things like
01:13:54.860that who are, uh, and, and really my, one of my main passions is keeping otherwise good
01:14:01.300relationships together and strong. And so, yeah, I totally, I totally love to talk to men and women,
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