I’m Angry All the Time and It’s Ruining My Life
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How can I stop being unpredictable and rebuild trust with my family?
How can I stop being unpredictable and rebuild trust with my wife? Lately, I've been called Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. You know, I need to be a dad.
Yeah. Can I just, can I like, man, if you were here, I'd stop what we're doing and I'd give you a hug. But what you're saying is real heavy and there's millions and millions of dads in your exact spot. Woo! What's up? This is John with the Dr. John Deloney Show. Talking about your mental and emotional health, your marriage, your dating life, whatever you got going on in your world. I'm here to help. And by help means I'm just going to sit with you. I think we're in a world where everybody just talks at everybody all the time. most of the time we know what the next right step is. It's just hard to make it, or just, we got 50 different options and choices and opinions and just need someone to sit with us. So that's what this show is about, man.
Me sitting with hurting people, trying to figure out what's the next right move. I've been doing this for over two decades and it's, It's one of the greatest honors in the world when someone calls and says, hey, man, will you just sit with me and let's figure this thing out. If you want to be on this show, it's real people going through real challenges. Give me a buzz at 1-844-693-3291 or go to johndeloney.com slash ask. A-S-K. Let's roll down I-65 and go to Huntsville, Alabama and talk to Barry. What's up, Barry?
Hey, Dr. John. Thanks for taking my call. Heck yeah, brother. What's up? So the base question is, how can I stop being unpredictable and rebuild trust with my wife and kids?
Man, that's a big question, dude. What precipitated the question? What happened?
Well, I've been called, lately I've been called Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. And my kids are... By who?
By who? Your wife? My wife. Okay. My wife. Is she right?
Um, yeah.
Okay. All right. Good on you for owning it. All right. So keep going.
So my kids are, I mean, I don't want to say scared, but really nervous to come to me about anything. They'll go to my wife and like try to get her to tell me because they don't know how I'm going to respond. My wife doesn't either. You know, me and her don't have conversations anymore. We do the basic, you know, how's your day? What's going on? Who's taking the kids to practice? That type of stuff. We've become roommates because, you know, they just don't know how I'm going to act or respond to questions or, you know, anything that's brought up to me.
So what is... Well, how long has this been like this, man?
What steps can I take to improve my emotional health?
Well, she says it's been a long time and I'm just now starting to kind of realize it I finally started going to you know to a doctor therapy and things like that and I've just come to realize that I to me I really only have pretty much two emotions I'm either angry or upset or I'm just laid back and I don't I don't know how to change it where my kids will come to me and I can, you know, I need to be a dad. Yeah. You know.
Can I just, can I like, man, if you were here, I'd stop what we're doing and I'd give you a hug. And I know that you might bristle at that at first, but what you're saying is real heavy and there's millions and millions of dads in your exact spot. What you're saying out loud is hard, and I'm proud of you. It's a courageous thing you're doing, okay?
Yeah, it is.
Now, here's the challenge you have. You don't trust you either. You don't come to you with the truth about what you feel about certain things. You anger it away, you rage it away, or you numb it out. You football game it away. and so what you're asking your kids to do and your wife to do is something that you won't even do and so instead of trying to fix some things so that your kids will come to you I want to turn off that nuclear reactor that's in your chest because somehow you woke up how old are you 36 you woke up at 36 and you don't like the life you live why All the things you're saying, tell me if I'm out to lunch, man, because I could be way off. Is a guy who's just so tired. Yes. But you're tired because you've been at war inside your own chest for so long. You don't think you make enough money. You don't like the job that you do.
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