Honoring Your Father and Mother Is Hard. For Harry, Meghan, and Us All.

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🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. On Sunday, millions watched Oprah interview Prince Harry and Megan, the Duchess of Sussex. Over the course of the conversation, the couple made several dramatic revelations, the majority about family members. Meghan disclosed that there had been “concerns and conversations” between her husband and his family, the Royal family, about how dark their son’s skin might be. Both Meghan and Harry talked about the challenges of convincing their relatives of the severity of the bad press they received and specifically of the toxicity of the racism leveled at their family. “If a member of his family would comfortably say ‘We’ve all had to deal with things that are rude’ — rude and racist are not the same,” said Meghan. Meghan also added she dealt with suicidal thoughts and after seeking out the professional health at the palace’s HR department and, “I was told that I couldn’t, that it wouldn’t be good for the institution.”-Harry said after leaving the monarchy behind, he realized. “I was trapped but I didn’t know I was trapped,” he said. “My father and my brother, they are trapped. They don’t get to leave.” He also said that his relationship with his father had suffered greatly over the years. At one point his father had stopped taking his calls. “I will always love him. But there’s a lot of hurt that’s happened and I will continue to make it one of my priorities to try and heal that relationship.” With this conversation dominating the week’s news cycle, this week on Quick to Listen we wanted to talk about families, specifically adult children’s relationship with their parents. How does one honor their parents and live out the fifth commandment in 2021? What is Quick to Listen? Read more Rate Quick to Listen on Apple Podcasts Follow the podcast on Twitter Follow our hosts on Twitter: Morgan Lee and Ted Olsen Follow our guest on Twitter: Leslie Leyland Fields Music by Sweeps Quick to Listen is produced by Morgan Lee and Matt Linder The transcript is edited by Yvonne Su and Bunmi Ishola Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you in part by The Apologetics Guy Show, the podcast that helps you find clear answers to tough questions about Christianity.
0:11.1	Learn to explain your faith with courage and compassion.
0:14.5	Join Moody Bible Institute professor Dr. Mikhail del Rosario at Apologeticsky.com.
0:21.9	On Sunday, millions watched Oprah interview Prince Harry and Megan, the Duchess of Sussex.
0:28.6	Over the course of the conversation, the couple made several dramatic revelations, a majority, about family members.
0:36.3	Megan disclosed that there had been, quote,
0:38.1	concerns and conversations between her husband and his family,
0:42.0	the royal family, about how dark their son's skin might be.
0:46.1	Harry declined to reveal who made these remarks,
0:48.5	but he did say it had not been Queen Elizabeth
0:50.3	or her husband, Prince Philip.
0:53.5	Both Megan and Harry talked about the challenges of convincing
0:55.8	the relatives of the severity of the bad press they received, and specifically the toxicity
1:00.2	of the racism leveled at their family. This is what Megan said about that. She said,
1:04.7	If a member of his family will comfortably say we've all had to deal with things that are rude.
1:09.4	Rude and racist are not the same.
1:11.5	Megan also added that she dealt with suicidal thoughts,
1:14.0	and after seeking out the professional health services
1:16.2	at the Palace's HR department, she was, quote,
1:19.0	told that I couldn't, but it wouldn't be good for the institution.
1:22.8	Harry said after leaving the monarchy behind, he realized...
1:25.3	I myself was trapped.
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