100%. I grew up without a Dad and yeah it really screws you up. Even worse if your mom's a feminist.
I somehow managed to avoid drug abuse, managed to graduate highschool, get through, college, all of the things that it's so easy to take for granted if you have both parents.
I never forget I basically won the equivalent of the powerball. I'm pretty much the only one from my old school with that sort of background to actually be making something of him,self.
Others I know of include a guy who overdosed in his bedroom at his mom's house. Another stocks Walmart shelves. Another worked at a comic book shop the last I heard. He liked to pester the girls coming in to shop there and was also a serial liar. Probably got arrested for being a sex pest at this point for all I know. Another was redneck Chris-chan. The highest achieving one works at the same bar his mom's at and his hobbies consist of vidya and pot. Harmless but wasted potential.
It's really sobering.
The thing that scares me to death is I'll continue the cycle. Kids growing up in that background have high rates of divorce themselves, and I know for sure I got absolutely zero sense of what a healthy relationship looked like when I was growing up with 'dear old mom'.
I'm incredibly blessed to be where I am, but it saddens me to no end that generations of people are being screwed up by these awful home lives. Thankfully we have people like Jordan Peterson and Warren Farrell talking about it, and Tucker Carlson made a fan out of me when he spent a whole entire week talking about these issues back around 2018.
100%. I grew up without a Dad and yeah it really screws you up. Even worse if your mom's a feminist.
I somehow managed to avoid drug abuse, managed to graduate highschool, get through, college, all of the things that it's so easy to take for granted if you have both parents.
I never forget I basically won the equivalent of the powerball. I'm pretty much the only one from my old school with that sort of background to actually be making something of him,self.
Others I know of include a guy who overdosed in his bedroom at his mom's house. Another stocks Walmart shelves. Another worked at a comic book shop the last I heard. He liked to pester the girls coming in to shop there and was also a serial liar. Probably got arrested for being a sex pest at this point for all I know. Another was redneck Chris-chan. The highest achieving one works at the same bar his mom's at and his hobbies consist of vidya and pot. Harmless but wasted potential.
It's really sobering.
The thing that scares me to death is I'll continue the cycle. Kids growing up in that background have high rates of divorce themselves, and I know for sure I got absolutely zero sense of what a healthy relationship looked like when I was growing up with 'dear old mom'.
I'm incredibly blessed to be where I am, but it saddens me to no end that generations of people are being screwed up by these awful home lives. Thankfully we have people like Jordan Peterson and Warren Farrell talking about it, and Tucker Carlson made a fan out of me when he spent a whole entire week talking about these issues back around 2018.