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🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, so this is a roll-up show, a greatest hit show. |
| 0:05.0 | I get this question a lot, and I got it recently, in particular about the leave behinds, right? |
| 0:13.2 | Let's say that you've had a bad family and various things escalate. |
| 0:18.2 | You have the conversation with your parents. |
| 0:20.4 | It goes badly, and you decide to defoo. |
| 0:24.9 | A foo, of course, being family of origin, defooing is like a divorce, or at least a trial separation, |
| 0:30.2 | as a result of sort of relentlessly bad behavior. |
| 0:34.8 | And the defoo is not primarily, of course, about your parents and it's not primarily |
| 0:40.1 | about the past. The D-Fu is primarily about the future, right? I love economics, as you know, |
| 0:49.9 | fairly well-trained in it and well-read in. And of course, with economics, the big issue |
| 0:57.1 | is not the visible benefits, but the hidden costs. That's the big thing with economics. |
| 1:05.5 | Right. If the government spends $5 million to create 100 jobs, you say, ooh, there's 100 jobs. |
| 1:10.1 | Economics is about the things you don't see or can't see, which is all of the |
| 1:15.4 | jobs that are not created because the government took those $5 million from businesses |
| 1:22.0 | and taxpayers and so on. So the DFU as a whole is not to do with your parents and it's not to do with the past. |
| 1:30.9 | If you have a crazy, dysfunctional, abusive, and perhaps even, I've certainly talked to people |
| 1:37.3 | with this challenge, an outright evil family, then the D-FU is not fundamentally about the past. It's not fundamentally about your parents. |
| 1:46.3 | It's about who can't come into your life if your parents are still in your life. |
| 1:52.3 | Who are your abusive parents blocking from coming into your life? Right. That's what really |
| 2:00.2 | matters. That's what really matters. That's what really matters. |
| 2:03.5 | I can tell you this without a shadow of a doubt, although my wife has never met, my mother. |
| 2:10.1 | If my mother and others were still in my life, my wife would never have married me. In fact, |
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