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And if you have a contentious or high conflict relationship or stage with your kid, coming out to your kid when they're 15 and telling them these are the people you can't tell, sometimes kids... can be vindictive. Sometimes kids can be shitty. Sometimes kids will weaponize a family secret to retaliate against their parents for parenting them. And so it's a difficult stage to navigate right now.

And if you have a contentious or high conflict relationship or stage with your kid, coming out to your kid when they're 15 and telling them these are the people you can't tell, sometimes kids... can be vindictive. Sometimes kids can be shitty. Sometimes kids will weaponize a family secret to retaliate against their parents for parenting them. And so it's a difficult stage to navigate right now.

You're not at 12, 13. You're not at 14, 15. You're at nine, nine year olds are fucking gullible. Nine year olds. You can tell daddy's on a work trip. Daddy had to work late. Daddy had to go to grandma's house this morning. Daddy had to be into work really early.

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Jeff, welcome back to the show.

Jeff, welcome back to the show.

So we had you on pretty recently to talk about your book and your back and sooner than somebody who was just on the show might be. And I'm just going to lay my cards on the table. I don't have a therapist and I feel like I need one this week. So I invited you back on the show just to con a free therapy session out of you. I hope that's okay.

So we had you on pretty recently to talk about your book and your back and sooner than somebody who was just on the show might be. And I'm just going to lay my cards on the table. I don't have a therapist and I feel like I need one this week. So I invited you back on the show just to con a free therapy session out of you. I hope that's okay.