How do you have 65K followers posting rubbish like this?! This isn't understanding “female nature.” It's taking bad experiences with women and turning them into a worldview about all women.
I've been married for 20+ years. We've been through some dark shit. Trust has been damaged. Mistakes have been made. And I still don't believe every woman is secretly keeping a backup man waiting in the wings.
Discernment is learning from what happened to you. Bitterness is deciding an entire sex is guilty because of it.
Have standards. Have boundaries. Choose your wife carefully.
But if you enter every relationship convinced betrayal is inevitable, don't be surprised when you become incapable of building trust.
Your children are learning how marriage works by watching yours. Not by listening to what you tell them. By watching how you treat their mother. How you speak to her when you're pissed off. Whether you apologize when you're wrong. Whether disagreement turns into disrespect. Whether affection disappears when life gets hard.
I have two daughters. And one of the things I've realized as they've gotten older is that I'm helping establish what they will someday consider normal from a man. That's a fucking heavy responsibility.
I haven't always gotten it right. They've seen versions of me I wish they hadn't. But they've also gotten to watch me change.
Being a good father isn't only about how you treat your children. It's also about showing them what love, accountability and respect look like between a husband and wife.
Your marriage is teaching your kids even when you aren't.
A good husband should be willing to disappoint his wife.
That probably pisses some people off. But after 20+ years of marriage, I've learned that loving your wife doesn't mean always making her happy.
Sometimes you say no.
Sometimes you disagree.
Sometimes you tell her something she doesn't want to hear.
Sometimes you hold a boundary even when it would be easier to give in.
And she should be able to do the same with you. I spent too many years believing being a good husband meant keeping the peace.
It doesn't.
A marriage where one person is afraid to disappoint the other isn't peaceful. It's unbalanced.
Love your spouse generously. But don't lose yourself trying to keep them happy.
I didn't start writing here because I figured life out. I started writing because I didn't.
I've been a good husband at times and a bad one at others.
I've been present for my daughters and I've let work steal too much of me.
I've been successful. I've been depressed. I've lost confidence in myself and had to rebuild it.
I've blamed circumstances. I've blamed other people. And eventually I had to start looking at the man in the mirror.
At 44, I'm still learning.
How to be a better husband.
A better father.
Stronger physically.
More disciplined.
More grounded in my faith.
More accountable for the man I choose to be.
I share the wins. But I'm going to share the mistakes too.
Because if being honest about where I've screwed up helps another man avoid making the same mistake, it's worth it.
How men show up matters.
I'm trying to show up better.
@briangoldrick10 The internet has enough men pretending they have life figured out.
We need more men willing to talk about where they got it wrong and what they're doing differently.
That's where other men actually learn something.
I had brain surgery when I was 14 years old.
I was given a 50/50 chance of surviving.
I survived.
But looking back, part of me built walls around myself that took almost 30 years to recognize.
I became angry.
I spent years asking, “Why did this happen to me?”
I learned to protect myself by shutting people out emotionally. I thought being hard meant being strong.
It didn't.
That anger followed me into adulthood.
Into my marriage.
Into fatherhood.
Into conversations with the people I loved most.
My wife and kids sometimes got a version of me they didn't deserve.
That's a hard sentence for me to write.
Because I can't get those years back.
But I can decide what I do with the years I have left.
Over the last several months, I've been doing the hardest work I've ever done.
Not in the gym.
Not in my career.
On myself.
Learning to bring the walls down.
Learning to listen instead of immediately defend.
Learning to feel anger without letting anger choose my response.
Learning that vulnerability isn't weakness.
I survived something at 14 that could have killed me.
It took me almost 30 years to realize surviving and truly living aren't the same thing.
I'm still doing the work.
I just wish I'd started sooner.
Your circumstances deserve an explanation.
They don't deserve an excuse.
Bad things happen to good people.
People betray you.
Companies fire you.
Plans fail.
Life gets unfair.
You don't have to pretend none of it affected you.
But eventually there's only one question that matters:
What are you going to do about it?
You may not be responsible for what happened to you.
You are responsible for what happens next.
@harrysoulcoach Harry, I have an honest question for you. This has been going on for a long long time as you mention extensively. What makes you so sure that this instance is where the truth is brought to light? That these evil systems are being taken down now? I keep asking this of myself too.
@briangoldrick10 The best thing you can do is learn from your past so it is not repeated by your children. End the cycle with yourself, do the work and be better than generations before you.
@FmrRepMTG You stole from us, gaslit us and profited on insider trading. You call yourself a true maga person yet you did this to us, we the people. Maybe sit down and enjoy your freedom for the time being. You ain’t saving America from shit