So much of what we learn about love is taught by people who never really love

us. My name is Andrea and this is adult child.

Welcome back to adult child where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in

a dysfunctional family.

I'm Andrea, I'm a shichou and I am an acquired taste.

So no hard feelings if I'm not your cup tea.

So today we are diving deep with friend of the pod, an audience-fave, Mr. Fix Your Picker

Adam Morosquez.

For his third appearance here on adult child I will include the links to his other two

appearances in the show notes if you haven't checked those out.

So the first time he was on we really got to hear his story and then when he was on last

year we dove deep into attachment theory and that was I think that was either number

one or number two most popular episode of 2022 so go listen to that shit.

And today we are discussing some of our staple topics here right guys how our childhood

fucks up our romantic life in adulthood and what the hell to do about it.

And we're also talking about the 12 steps and how for people with a lot of unresolved

trauma how the 12 steps could be potentially harmful or damaging especially from the perspective

of you know when we're doing a fourth and fifth step in AA and NA the focus is really

on us.

And specifically looking for what are our character defects as it relates to these resentments

and fears and sexual inventory.

But one thing that I touched upon when I did my episode on step six and seven as it relates

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