Riley Keough
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269 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
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I didn't know what marriage was. I hadn't been in a relationship longer than three years, you know? Like I didn't think about it.
Yeah, I didn't really think I was. Yeah, it wasn't impulsive or anything. I just like knew that he was the person. I knew he was the person I was meant to have kids with. I just knew it. So I don't know. And neither of us were like neither of us ever put any pressure on it either. It wasn't like we still don't.
We're not like our marriage will never fail and we're going to be together till we're 80. You know, like we're both kind of like if we ever were unhappy, we would get divorced.
You know, you're realist. We're realist. We're like, whatever. Yeah.
There were just not a lot of boundaries. It was very like everyone knew everything about everybody. And everyone was involved in everybody's. If I was breaking up with a boyfriend, like she was involved. You know, like it was like that kind of a thing. Everyone, you know, my brother, my dad, like we were very enmeshed, I think.
Yes. I think that there was a certain point probably in my mid-20s when I sort of became more of the caretaker in the relationship. And I think it was around when she became addicted to opiates. Because she was always sort of the like leader in our family. And then she had, you know, fell into her addiction. And at that point, I sort of
Yes. You know? And you're like, wait. No. Who's seeing this?
But I think – and it's – What are the ways, if you're comfortable in sharing, that you find yourself in that situation?
I have to say like, that is something that I really am going to try my best. I don't know if it's just inevitable, but like as a parent, like I don't ever want my kids to feel like they have to take care of me or unless they literally do. But I mean like emotionally, you know? I don't want my children to feel like my happiness is their responsibility.
I think there's another, you know, I think you just have to accept that you're going to do stuff wrong. Yeah. And you're going to end up like your child is going to end up talking to the therapist about you. It's just part of being a parent. So I for me, I just I try and not, you know, read into it or read anything at all.
I don't read, but I think there's so much pressure, you know, to improve on the future generations as, you know, whatever. And so I think, I don't know. I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about.
She only would talk about him. So she never would... I don't think she processed her grief. Like, I think that because her grief was so public... she would hide a lot of her feelings because they felt personal, like something she could keep to herself. So I think because of that, she didn't really talk about the grief so much.
And I think in her late 40s and when she was 50, she started realizing that she hadn't really ever talked about it to anybody, which I think is also common with older generations. Nobody was talking about all their things.
The only like step that I've actively taken is to like feel my feelings. That's a good step.
Which is a lot harder than it sounds.
You know? And some of them have been extremely unbearable. And whether that's grief or anxiety, sadness, like I think that feeling my feelings has been the only conscious thing that I've done and trying to be present in my feelings. Could you give –
Well, I've had a lot of family members who have had addiction issues that I will and won't say on air because it's their personal story, but more than just my mother. And it's been a really interesting life because I've been surrounded in a way with people suffering from addiction, but there's never anything I can really do about it. And I found myself kind of going like, what is the lesson here?
Like to be around people, harming themselves and and nothing I do will change it and so the only thing that I could do was surrender to what is you know yeah and uh of course I mean with my mom it was a
you know, years of me trying to drag her into, you know, rehab or get her help or like so much effort, you know, and thinking like this is going to be effective every time and not really being present in the fact that the person sitting across from me is not participating in my plan, you know? So I just was, I mean, that was, I tried really hard to, you know, keep all of these plates spinning.
And then ultimately it resulted in like, you know, addiction sort of resulted in the loss of two of my family members. I was kind of forced to surrender. And I think that It's a really hard line because you can't do nothing because you feel like, you know, you have to. Someone you love is suffering. You have to do everything you can to help alleviate the suffering.
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