5839 Returning to a Bad Family?!? Freedomain Call In

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 151 minutes

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Summary

A caller grapples with the emotional fallout from a troubled childhood marked by neglect and emotional abuse. He seeks to confront his parents for the first time in a year, hoping to address lingering issues that have led to feelings of detachment and low self-worth in adulthood. Through a role-play scenario facilitated by Stefan, the caller articulates his grievances and reflects on patterns of manipulation from his father, revealing a desire for authenticity in familial relationships. The discussion delves into themes of self-identity, accountability, and the complexities of reconciling past trauma with present realities. Ultimately, the conversation encourages the caller to navigate family dynamics with informed assertiveness, aiming for healthier connections moving forward.

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0:00.0	Get me up to speed. We'll get to the dream and all of that. But yeah, get me up to speed on what's going on.
0:05.5	Yeah. So the last couple of call-ins that I've had, one was last January and then before that was June, you had made a note that I wasn't very emotional, that I felt like I was carrying this burden.
0:21.6	And I believe that's reflected inside my life where sort of just fallen into a salary position,
0:29.6	where it's not necessarily that I'm trying to move up through the ranks or progress that much.
0:35.6	And it doesn't seem like I really have much of a dating life
0:37.9	outside of like casual dating.
0:40.7	It's like, all right,
0:43.5	how do I break through into
0:47.5	living a life that I'm passionate about
0:51.0	instead of just a life that I feel safe
0:53.7	all by myself in.
0:56.0	Like being alone around my parents place was really the only time I could relax.
1:04.0	But that's not the way I'm going to succeed as an adult.
1:10.0	So I want to try to break through that belief and get to the emotions that were behind
1:15.9	the neglect and the needing to hide in order to feel safe.
1:26.4	Right. Okay. And was there something more imminent that was going on?
1:33.3	Like the decision regarding your family? I have a vague memory of that. Sorry if I missed the
1:37.3	Yeah. No worries. No worries. Yeah. Essentially as soon as we get off this call, I'm going to drive four hours to go visit extended family and confront them on what happened in the extended family and then tomorrow I'm going to have more intimate conversations with both of my parents who I haven't spoken to in person in over a year to try to crack down on like
2:04.7	what happened but also like without a doubt in my mind knowing these are the people that my
2:13.7	parents are and there's no more space to be like, oh, but they could change because
2:19.3	they were in therapy or, oh, they could change because they said sorry, but in a vague way, not in a
2:25.3	specific apologies way, right? It feels like there's that 1% left in my mind that's like, oh, maybe
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