He’s Feeling Conflicted After Being The Only Dad To Cry At His Kid’s Event!
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🗓️ 9 May 2025
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| 0:33.8 | So I've got to tell you guys, I am not okay. |
| 0:56.3 | I am not okay right now, and I have not been able to stop the emotional reaction I have been having about Hollis getting ready to go to college. I think there are a couple of things in place here. I really do think now that I am off the effectser, I feel like I'm just feeling things more deeply now than I was before. The effects are, these SSRIs, they block the anxiety, but they |
| 1:04.0 | also block all like deep emotions, you know? So I have been finding myself over the course of the |
| 1:09.7 | last two weeks, just being way more emotional about Hollis taking off for college than I could have ever anticipated. |
| 1:17.4 | In fact, about a month ago when Stacy and I, my ex-wife and I, were at his soccer game and we were talking. |
| 1:23.4 | She was telling me she was crying every week thinking about Hollis not being around the house. |
| 1:28.0 | And I made fun of her. |
| 1:29.3 | I made fun of her. |
| 1:29.9 | I'm like, oh, my God. |
| 1:30.9 | I mean, he's going to be right up the road. |
| 1:32.7 | And I don't know if that gave me the okay to be as emotional as she was. |
| 1:40.8 | But from that day on, I have kind of been a mess. Yesterday it happened again. His school does |
| 1:47.1 | something really cool. And I think it's because there's only 32 kids that graduate from their school. |
| 1:52.6 | But they call it a pennant ceremony. So they get all of the kids and the parents in their library. |
| 1:58.2 | And one by one in alphabetical order, they announced the kids that are going to be going |
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