All right, guys, welcome back to the Man Talk show.

Today I'm going to be talking about the five things.

Every guy who grew up without a father needs to know.

This is a bit of an interesting one.

I've had a lot of guys over the years that I've worked with who didn't have a father in

their life, their father

abandoned them or passed away very young or, you know, it was just completely absence, you know, was sort of there in their life, but was a ghost in their life. And it can have pretty severe side effects. I've had a lot of men that have said, hey, I didn't grow up with a dad. Like, What did I miss?

What do I need to know?

And so I'm going to address that based off of everything that I've had a lot of men that have said, hey, I didn't grow up with a dad. What did I miss? What do I need to know?

And so I'm going to address that based off of everything that I've seen and learned in my years of working with men and studying psychology.

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So let's dive in. What are the consequences, the possible side effects of not having a father

present? Well, when a father isn't present, the biggest thing is that the image of what it means to be a man,

the image of masculinity is missing.

And so a young boy can grow up without the presence of, you know, how a man operates when he's stressed, how a man treats women, how a man deals with his own anger or his own grief or sadness.

A young boy can miss out on the image of what he can step into, who he can become, the mountain that he can climb or

conquer. You know, I think in its truest form, the role of a father is to be this sort of,

not necessarily a conquest, but like a mountain, an image

psychologically, metaphorically, an example in the world of what that young boy can one

day aspire to physically, within his purpose, within his social circle, within the world, you know, within

relationship. And so the impact of a young boy not having a father is that it will impact

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