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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

6324 My Partner is an ALCOHOLIC! CALL IN SHOW

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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4.7 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Molyneux talks with a caller trapped in a deteriorating business partnership where his co-owner’s persistent heavy drinking has led to reckless decisions and mounting damage. He guides the man through the core issue of moral responsibility—why the partner’s choices are not the caller’s to fix indefinitely—and presses him to face the real costs of inaction, both to the business and to his own family’s security. The discussion centers on accountability in practical terms: what loyalty actually requires when one side keeps failing, and how clinging to a broken arrangement can itself become a form of neglect toward those who depend on him. By the close, Molyneux brings the caller to the threshold of a tough but necessary decision—whether to take firm steps, possibly ending the partnership entirely, in order to protect his family’s future from further harm.

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0:00.0

it's a public call. So if you can stay off names and places, I would appreciate that.

0:06.5

And I'm all the years. How can I best help? Well, thank you for that. And I guess I did

0:13.8

create an outline, kind of what I wanted to talk to you about, is it's about my business,

0:20.2

which has been going on for about four years now.

0:23.4

And I'm kind of like lost on if I'm doing the right thing and what should I do in the future.

0:28.9

And I think I kind of broke it down into how my business works between me and my business partner,

0:40.3

the culture that our business is, and and my business partner, the culture that our business is,

0:48.9

and then personally how that affects my life. So one thing is that, so as far as my partnership, my business partner works less than I do like 30 hours and I work like 40 hours and

0:59.6

there's like a couple different thing that that bothers me I'm not really sure if I should be

1:05.2

bothered about it or if I should just let it go because maybe I'm making enough money to make

1:09.6

that right you know okay uh got it

1:13.1

go ahead um so so there's there's the hours thing right because we we just get paid at the end of

1:20.6

the week no matter what but the difference in hours bothers me then then there's some issues that, well, like, for instance, that he, we recently got him

1:34.3

a brand of truck.

1:36.8

I have an old van that I drive around.

1:41.5

He does bring in the customers, like all the contacts.

1:46.8

It's all word of mouth and stuff.

1:49.0

But, and maybe that helps to where, you know,

1:52.7

it makes sense for him to work a little less, I guess.

1:56.5

One thing that concerns me is that there's a lot of drinking going on, you know, while

2:04.3

driving the company vehicle, you know, everywhere and that concerns me. And this kind of blends into the culture aspect of our business is when, like last year, when I took, I took,

2:19.9

I believe, leave a just for a couple weeks on, like, vacation, he spontaneously took my,

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