

Recorded on 18 October 2020.
Answering an excellent and important listener question live!
"How do you handle the transition between giving an infant everything it wants and needs and setting boundaries with a one to two year old?"
Transcript: https://freedomain.com/a-parenting-call-in-transcript/

Freedomain Call In
Stefan and the caller dig into patterns of being attracted to "crazy" partners and discuss the importance of recognizing and addressing it. We also talk about taking responsibility for our actions, building relationships based on integrity, and setting higher standards for ourselves. Stefan emphasizes the need to apologize sincerely and be mature, regardless of how others respond. Despite having had difficult childhoods, it's important to not let it define our lives. Lastly, we discuss anger management and the benefits it can bring to one's therapy journey.
Transcript: [...]

I believe I have a lot of problems, but I had to condense most of that down to two large issues I have in life, one of which is isolation, I suppose. I've been very isolated in my life, especially after dropping out of high school in 2017. And it's gotten really painful, and I've also been very much attached to reading fiction. So it sort of started when I was 12 years old, and I'm 25 now.
And only recently, it really has started to lose its charm and its grip and influence on me. But very often, I would find myself awake at night and do nothing but read until I couldn't stay awake anymore. [...]

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I have no [...]

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We met in high school in 2000. I was 18, she was 16; I was a senior, she was a junior. We'd known each other for about a month then started dating and got married five years later and then had our first kid in 2008. We have four children.
I'm in the military, traveled all over the world. We've gone pretty much everywhere together. A couple deployments, spent some time overseas. We're now back stateside.
It's been a somewhat tumultuous relationship. I think there have been issues with trust over the years on my [...]

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I was seeing my brother the other week and we spoke about you and our previous call many years ago and since I am still struggling with my men, so to speak, he was very on to me about something that we discussed about my looks. And he really wanted me to like rebrand myself so he he was saying that my unluck with bad men is due how I present myself with clothing and appearance.
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