Bert's Done Ignoring His Conscience...It's Time To Do The Right Thing

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Bert has been estranged from his mom for years. A while ago, he found out that his mother has Stage 5 Alzheimer’s. Since then, he has struggled with consistently checking in on her. But now, his conscience can't deny it anymore, and he knows he needs to visit her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The virtue.
0:01.0	I had a hard, good, long talk with myself over the course of the last 48 hours.
0:10.4	And I have decided that it is time for me to put my big boy underwear on and do what's
0:17.4	right and not necessarily what I want to do.
0:21.0	It's your big boy panties.
0:23.0	I don't like to call my underwear panties.
0:25.1	They can't be drawers.
0:26.1	No, George's for a guy.
0:27.7	Yes.
0:28.7	I have not wearing panties.
0:29.7	Big boy drawers.
0:31.6	So it's a long, complicated relationship with my mom.
0:37.2	How do I describe this in like 30 seconds for a new virtual listener?
0:41.0	It's just been my mom is a toxic narcissist.
0:48.6	I dismiss it.
0:49.6	She just wasn't good at being a mom.
0:51.2	I mean, she had us.
0:53.6	She said three kids and she's giving us all up to different dads at one point or another.
0:58.2	My mom is just, it's hard to communicate to somebody that's been in healthy families
1:03.2	like how difficult a relationship could be with a parent when they just are really toxic
1:08.8	man, like very, very hurtful.
1:11.4	And it's their way or no way and it was an unconditional love.
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