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Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 133 minutes

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The conversation focuses on a single father navigating a complex separation from his Russian wife, highlighting the challenges of co-parenting across borders. The father recounts filing for separation amid conflicts over their child's custody, including the mother's attempts to take the child to Russia, which violated a court order. After a failed escape attempt, he gained sole custody, prompting reflections on the emotional toll on his son. The father discusses the need to break cycles of dysfunction, including addressing his past struggles with alcohol, and emphasizes his commitment to fostering a healthy, stable environment for his child despite ongoing legal issues.

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0:00.0	All right, well, listen, man, I'm all the ears. Lay it on me. How can I best help?
0:06.0	Well, I don't know where to start. I'm a single father now at the moment because my wife is out of the picture.
0:15.5	She, can I say, we were in the process of separating. And in the middle of, to make a long story short, she didn't like the judgment of the courts
0:26.5	and tried to take the baby back to, I don't know if I say specific locations, but to a different country.
0:35.7	So she was caught by the police at the border.
0:40.2	Sorry, I think you can say the country because that kind of matters.
0:43.0	It does matter a lot.
0:45.3	No, yeah.
0:46.0	Well, I'm in Italy now.
0:47.6	Yeah.
0:47.9	And she tried to take the baby out of Italy, which was against the court's order.
0:53.7	Sorry, was she taking the baby somewhere else in the EU or further afield?
0:58.0	To Russia.
0:59.0	To Russia?
1:00.0	Okay.
1:01.0	Yeah. So I lived in Russia for many years and we left in 2022 when everything happened.
1:10.0	So I'm an American and Italian citizen and she's a
1:13.3	Russian citizen and the baby has three passports, three sit three citizenship. And we have been
1:21.3	living here. Well, I had I had lived in Russia for almost 18 years and I was quite happy there. Everything was, we had a good
1:30.2	life and then, you know, the war started and I said, you know, we have to leave. So we got up and
1:37.7	we left for a couple different reasons. But one of the main reasons was my documents, my passport
1:43.5	was expiring and I couldn't get it renewed in Moscow one of the main reasons was uh my documents my passport was expiring and i couldn't get it
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