Todd Adams
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562 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2021
last heard Nov 2022
Todd Adams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I would I would love to say I'm in a better place that I know exactly why, but I've been doing this work for so long.
Sometimes I like forget the way I used to be.
And it's important to have compassion for those guys and also ask them to for accountability.
And to step up.
A lot of times Kathy and I will be talking to a parent and it'll be the mom and she'll say, My husband is completely tuned out of this family.
And he doesn't show up for this and that.
And we'll ask, Well, what does he say when you bring this up to him?
And she'll say, Well, I've kind of given up.
I don't even bring it up anymore.
And I'm like, Well, that's a problem.
If you really want the trajectory of this family unit to be a certain way, you at least need to bring it up to him.
I know my wife had to bring it up to me many, many times.
I'm lucky enough to be
with a woman that even when she does get reactive and she's like, you know, Todd, you've been traveling too much for work, she'll start it out by saying, This isn't about you.
I just need to like vent and say some of these things.
And even to this day I still get really defensive.
And then I take a breath and I'm like, okay, I can hold this face for a second.
But my initial reaction, no matter how long I've done this work, is one of defensiveness.
And then it takes a little bit of work to kind of locate where I am, take a breath and then engage in an empathic way.
Yeah, I mean it's as easy as Googling men's groups, and there's there's so many of them out there.
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