Hello and welcome to Overthink.

The podcast where two philosophers who have zero psychological baggage of their own talk about issues

that maybe other people have.

I'm Ellie Anderson.

I'm David Peña Guzman.

David, I googled daddy issues.

And one of the first things that came up was this article from instile.com called Think You

Have Daddy Issues. Here are eight telltale signs.

I think the answer in my case is yes, but I want to know what the telltale signs are.

You don't need to go through the eight signs to know.

Yeah. Would we just like, think you have daddy issues? Yes.

Yeah, I mean, me too. Okay, but here are a few of them. So, well, actually,

let's take a look at it together. Okay, I'm opening the link that you just sent me. Think you

have daddy issues. Here are eight taill-tale signs. Being attracted to older men is just scratching

the surface. That's the subtitle.

Dear Dr. Jen, I have never had a great relationship with my dad. He wasn't abusive, but was

pretty absent and emotionally unavailable growing up. I've also never had a long-term relationship,

and my friends have pointed out that my crappy choice in men perhaps stems from my relationship

or lack thereof with my dad.

Do I have daddy issues? And what does that mean? I want to better understand why my relationship

with my dad is impacting my dating life. So I can choose better partners and break out of this cycle.

Signed daddy issues. So I propose David that we don't read Dr. Jen's full response because it is long,

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