Hey, these are from the sinners just me today. I thought I would rapid fire some answers to some of your emails.

This first group of questions are from discord. These are on the channel that's like quick questions, or I can't remember what the channel is called, but

Suzy Danger asked a question. My son often confides in me, but also says don't tell dad. How do I navigate this? There are things I feel his father should know,

but if my son were to find out I told him all trust would be lost. So end of question. So Suzy Danger is like my son says, I'm going to tell you something in secret, but don't tell dad.

But she's saying I feel like his father should know about some of these things. Okay, the first thing I'll say is there's no easy answer to this. You're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place to some extent.

The factors to consider are obviously what's being told to you. How consequential is it? Because by not telling the father, you could be kind of lying by omission to some extent to them, even though the person who told you told you not to tell them.

Or is it just like my favorite color is blue and he just doesn't want dad to know? Or is it just a game that your kid is playing? Also the age of the child, right? If your child is 16, that's different than if your child is six in some obvious ways, I think.

But the thing that I would do is I would talk to your son about what's going on and ask him, you know, okay, I'll keep your secret because I want you to trust me.

But why don't you want to tell dad? And I would work on that. That could take a while. But I would work on that in terms of helping your son be okay with telling dad or have your son tell dad himself.

Maybe there's some worry there or some game he's playing or something. If it's an immediate thing that needs to be said, then you might actually have to tell the dad, you know, parents need to stick together and children shouldn't be allowed to drive a wedge between their parents, especially if it's an important detail.

But also you want to gauge like, well, would the dad get really upset if he, you know, if I take a while to tell him, you know, there's just a lot of things to consider.

But the main thing, the main question is, why does your son want to keep secrets from dad? And I would address that.

All right, Alex L says, would you be interested in watching Family Therapy with Dr. Jen, which is a reality show where families have therapy with a merge of family therapist? And are you going to react to other couples on Showtime's couples therapy?

Sure, I'll add that to the list, Family Therapy with Dr. Jen. I have a lot of things on my list. I have to tell you, a lot of requests. There's so many shows to watch, right?

Also, with regards to Showtime's couples therapy, I want to watch some of the other couples. But again, it's just sort of not a huge priority because other things are currently taking priority.

But they're on the list. And I really liked watching that show because it was different from the other shows that I've been watching and really prompted me to talk about some very specific things about being a couple of therapists.

All right, this next discord question is from artist wolf, they write, what is the line between introversion and social anxiety, the line between introversion and social anxiety?

Yeah, often introversion is used as a synonym for social anxiety, but they are not synonyms. There's really very little that they are related to each other. There might be a slight correlation, but they're really completely different experiences. Let me explain.

So zooming out a little bit, introversion is a personality trait that is considered to be one of the five dimensions within the big five personality traits that seem to actually hold scientific evidence.

So let me zoom out even further. When we are trying to study personality, we are looking for very specific scientific evidence that personality traits exist.

And the things that we're looking for, and I'm not an expert in this, but in my kind of limited understanding, the way I would describe it is we're looking for enduring traits that humans have that predict behavior and maybe reports of inner experience that seem to be consistent over time.

For example, if a saber tooth tiger is chasing me and I'm afraid, and then a week later, I'm sitting by the fire with my friends, and I'm happy, the fear I experienced with a saber tooth tiger is not an enduring personality trait.

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