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All right, I'm going to share a little bit about a therapy session that I had during the week that I thought was a bit of a breakthrough.

And even though I talked about this in therapy, I talked about it quite a bit more than what I normally talk about. And that's my family of origin, Steve.

And my family of origin sucks. I think I've talked about why my family of origin sucks in the past,

but I had a little bit of a breakthrough there. And I think the breakthrough was,

I felt alone most of the time growing up.

I felt alone most of the time probably through getting married.

And I had nothing to guide me through not feeling that way.

So my only crutch was alcohol.

Yeah. That's all I had. So I, I guess we'll start

that way is growing up, I have an early memory of being accidentally on purpose burned by a

cigarette by my family members and I think this happened

multiple times and my mother did like nothing about it my mother was interested in protecting me

from like the outside stimuli I remember when I moved from having a Subaru to a Honda, she freaked out.

And I was probably in my 30s, if not 40s.

Not really her decision to make.

But I didn't need four-wheel drive anymore.

Probably didn't need four-wheel drive when I had the Subaru.

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