Don’t You Want Somebody to Take Care of You?

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Gina loves her big brother, Alan. She took care of him for most of their childhood, and as an adult, she wants to make sure he’s okay no matter what. But she also knows she can't be around to help make that happen. This episode is about being a child of divorce. It's about having one absent parent and another who lives with severe depression. It's about loving a sibling whose genetic disorder causes him to inflict physical harm. And it's about putting your own health above all of it. Support our independent production (and get bonus content galore!) by joining TTFA Premium. We now offer tiers as low as $4.99 / month. Sign up. Our email subscribers get first dibs on ticket sales, new merch, show announcements and more. Join our mailing list here. Nora also writes sad & funny books! You can buy them here. Did you know we’re on TikTok? Yep, it’s true. Follow Nora. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.9	Okay, so Gina, I've just got a couple questions. We're just going to get into it. Is that okay?
1:05.9	Yeah, totally. I'm Nora McNeerney and this is terrible thanks for asking. And that was
1:13.1	Gina. And when we get into it, we're going to be continuing the conversation that we've
1:18.6	been having about care with Gina's story. It's a story about a lot of complicated emotions,
1:26.2	about the long tail effects of being thrust into a caregiver role when you're still a person
1:30.6	who needs a lot of care, a child. But this complicated story starts in a really simple
1:38.6	place when Gina's parents met and fell in love. They were a summer fling. It was like maybe
1:52.9	1969, 1970 Vietnam War was going on. I think there was a lot of looking for a better
2:00.7	life, wanting something good and they dated over that summer and then they were married
2:07.1	by like the day after Christmas that same year. So my sense is that they were kind of
2:12.5	idealists. Like they were like looking for some sort of happily ever after. And for a
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