In this episode, I speak with my ex-wife Hillary. Hillary shares her experience of growing up in a broken family and how it affected her and her children growing up as a single mom in the late 90s and early 2000s.
00:14:22.120And I just don't think, I think he falls into the pattern of treating me a certain way.
00:14:29.740And I just can't, I think everybody deserves to be loved to their fullest extent, as cheesy as that probably sounds.
00:14:39.760But if you can't, like just with adultery or anything else, if you can't get past it, then you should let that person go so that they can have a chance with someone else.
00:14:51.040Do you think, like, would he tell the story the same way?
00:15:02.700I think he would tell it in a very similar way.
00:15:11.480But he would probably leave out the part.
00:15:14.460So I've heard him tell this story, and I've heard from other people, you know,
00:15:21.040the story that he does tell. And so the things that he throws in is the, is the things that
00:15:28.680I did wrong. And I, and, uh, there, there was plenty, there, there were plenty of things
00:15:37.160that I did wrong that I, I let myself go. Um, it wasn't really that, um, like in, in
00:15:44.540an intimate sense, there, there were never any issues with anything like that. Um, but
00:15:51.040but i mean i couldn't have given up and not had regrets about this unless i had done everything
00:15:59.680in my power to try to save it and he knows that he he knows how how hard i tried to get him
00:16:08.320to to change and the thing is like people won't change unless they want to and um i i mean i was
00:16:15.360in church for a long time you know i'm in the south so that's kind of a given but um but i i
00:16:23.200listened to everyone else that said if you just pray hard enough if you if you just believe enough
00:16:28.000if you're the wife that you're supposed to be that will make him become the husband that he's
00:16:32.160supposed to be and it just became a matter of like i can't change a person so what kind of
00:16:41.120a mother do you think you are to your kids it's impossible to be objective and in that question
00:16:50.480i think um and uh i mean i'll try my my kids um so like some so my oldest is 15 i have two daughters
00:17:02.86015, 12, and my son is five. Um, there are plenty of times that they don't like me for, for lots of
00:17:15.120things for, uh, being too strict. Um, but I don't, um, that's, that's a difficult question, but I try
00:17:27.740to be okay i'm not judging you i'm just wondering no no i it's a it's a good question um i was
00:17:35.840listening to the descriptions and trying to find one that you maybe i fell into you can make one
00:17:42.960up if you think of one you know i i i wouldn't be able to come up with the name but i guess i guess
00:17:49.000it would be, um, I just want everybody in my household to have peace for, for so long.
00:17:58.420We, we were kind of, I mean, at least myself and my oldest too, uh, we had to walk on eggshells.
00:18:07.520We couldn't, um, really make jokes or cut up the way that we wanted to in our house.
00:18:13.020Um, I, I try for my household to be, um, peaceful most of the time for, for them to be comfortable.
00:18:22.920Um, I do have rules that they have to follow, but, um, and I try to teach them as much of,
00:18:32.380uh, like kind of the red pill things, um, of just to make them aware of what they're