These are my personal opinions. Always seek a professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.

Welcome to the show. I'm glad you made it. This is an episode that is going to highlight what I don't know about parenting.

Because I've never been one.

I've been a stepdad, but only when I entered Asha's life when her child was a young teen.

And so that's not really being a stepdad because his other father was in the picture.

And so I never really learned what it was like to be a parent.

So I ended up studying everything I could about relationships in general throughout my life.

And this is where we are.

And sometimes I think I've had like maybe two or three episodes on how to work with kids,

how to deal with kids, even though I don't really like that expression and how to help them when your partner or ex-partner is toxic. I've had episodes on that. You can actually go to

the overwhelmed brain.com and type in kid or child, and you will find episodes where I talked

about that. That doesn't mean I'm the expert. It just means I know relationships enough to maybe

help relate to your young or adult children.

And maybe they help you.

And maybe this episode will be one of those episodes where maybe it helps.

But I say all this stuff as a disclaimer that I have never had a child and raised a child

myself.

So everything I say, you can throw out the window.

And I'm going to say it anyway.

Because I know relationships enough to at least maybe give you some guidance if you're

looking for it.

If you're a parent or if you know someone who's a parent and they're having trouble with their

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