Andy Stumpf

And then people here, they're like, what?

You mean you guys deal with that stuff too?

It's like, yes, that's the whole point.

You're not alone.

You're not unique in this.

So I think from the very beginning of deciding to write it, I didn't know necessarily that I would use that particular example

But if it's the most difficult thing I've done in my life, I'm obligated to put that in there and talk about it as openly as possible while maintaining the privacy of the other person involved.

It was anything but cordial.

And, you know, I've talked about this before, but – and I don't know if it made it in the book, but I lost contact with my oldest son for 18 months.

I was the one who initiated the end of the relationship.

And he was the oldest at the time.

And I don't know if it was a matter of him being in a certain phase of his own life and, you know, the deal being a –

A young man is not the easiest path, nor is being a young woman by any stretch.

But it's really interesting how adults forget how difficult it was in those years to just get through the day when you think that everything is, you don't even know who you are.

You're trying to figure it all out.

But for 18 months, I tried calling him.

I tried texting him.

I tried writing him letters to his mom's house.

I would pull up next to him at a parking lot that he would go to before he went to work.

And he would burn out out of the parking lot without even acknowledging that I was there.