Welcome guys and gals to the Man Talk Show. I'm Connor Beaton. On this midweek mini episode, we're going to talk about the real impact of divorce and fatherless generations. Now, this might now sound like a very motivating podcast. This might not sound like something that's very inspirational, but it's something that's very real. And it's something that I've been talking about

in front of companies and corporations at events for the last few years. And it's something that

people find a lot of value in because what it does is it brings about the conversation of

where do we go from here? Why is divorce such an impactful thing on children, specifically, and for many of you listening,

you may have come from divorced families, and what's the impact of fatherless generations?

Now, just to clarify, fatherless generations don't necessarily mean that your fathers weren't around.

You see, the reality is that many of us have come from fatherless homes. Many boys and girls have come from fatherless homes because a fatherless

home doesn't necessarily mean that your dad was gone, right? You could have had the alcoholic father

who was disconnected. You could have had the alcoholic father who was disconnected.

You could have had the emotionally shut down father who never expressed love or hatred or anger or any form of emotion, really at all.

You could have had the father who was emotionally volatile and he was cut off because he only knew how to express anger and rage and asserted that

onto you and your family. And so you never really knew him. You could have had the type of father

who was not there because he was constantly at work, because he was the high performer, because

he prided himself on consistently and always being the one that was the high performer because he prided himself on consistently and and always being

the one that was the quote unquote breadwinner who was always gone who was traveling nonstop who was

always at work and even when he was at home he was talking about thinking about and producing more work

maybe you had the type of father who was loving and kind and there for you,

but he was maybe a little bit emotionally attached and meshed with you,

and it felt like he was constantly needing to process all of his emotions with you.

And this is very common of some modern fathers who don't know how to self-regulate.

And so they actually put the burden of emotional regulation onto their children.

So they're going through a tough time or a tough situation.

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