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Chapter 1: How do I explain a family member's unique identity to my child?
How do I explain my brother's furry identity to my child in a way that balances both imaginative play with appropriate understanding? He's always been an outcast.
Well, duh, he's been a squirrel or whatever for his whole life.
Right, right.
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Hey, John. My question is, how do I explain my brother's furry identity to my child in a way that balances both imaginative play with appropriate understanding?
And good morning to you, too. Wow. Oh, boy. I love my job. It's so good. All right. So walk me. How old is your kids?
He's three, and then I have one due in March.
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Chapter 2: How should parents handle unconventional family dynamics?
That's the first thing she said. I'm not sure what you thought I was looking at you like, but that's not at all what I want. Happily married, and you need to think of your poor wife right now, what she's going through. I can't believe you even asked me that. Um, he then said, you know, you know, I can be discreet. I've been in the military.
I've been discreet before and just completely blew her mind as to what he was telling her just in shock. Right. So she called me and told me I left my work engagement and came right home and talked to her. Cause she was in shock and just very uncomfortable. She was very upset. So I asked him to talk to me, and he did.
The next day, we spoke, and I made it very clear and drew a boundary that I said, hey, here's what happened. He did not deny it. He said, yeah, I'm sorry. I don't know why I did that. I shouldn't have acted. I feel dumb now. I said, well, you feel dumb because you got shot down. But just so you know, you are not welcome at my house anymore. My wife doesn't want to see you anymore.
She's extremely uncomfortable. She's devastated. You've broken 10 years of trust and love from our family. We just can't believe this is even happening.
Dude, can I just pause for a second? High five to you, dude. Good on you. Because you didn't act like an idiot. You didn't bang on his door at 3 a.m. But you did good on you. For everybody listening, that's how you handle that situation. So good on you, man. My friends wanted to. Of course they did.
And you know what?
That's what your buddies are for. That's what your buddies are for, to be like, let's go right now. That's what they're for. But that's a mature, grown-up way to handle this. So you just gave a perfect model of somebody that you love and trust propositions your wife. God forbid that happen to anybody listening. But it does happen. That's how you handle it. she handled it perfectly. She called you.
She said like, here's my boundaries. You got good for you, man. Like that's, that's awesome. Okay.
Yeah. So, and he was receptive to it. He understood. I said, you know, it's up to you to tell her, you know, your wife, how, you know, why you can't come over or why you shouldn't come over. Um, initially that's, that was what I told him. And, uh, now he controls that narrative, but, you know, talking to my wife more, we're like, I really feel horrible, uh,
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