Episode 198: Gabor Maté - Renowned Addiction Expert, Bestselling Author, and Speaker
Habits and Hustle
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I Can't Leave My Husband Because of the Kids
I was the emotionally absent workaholic and often raged father and husband. What would have been right for her was not to be with me. Now we've worked it through. And we've just had our 53rd anniversary. We've actually happened to be married. But at that time it came at a cost to the children. So when my wife said to her then, I can't leave him because of the kids, she was basically saying, I don't have the authentic strength yet. She still need the attachment more than I did the authenticity. It's courage. You need that capacity to accept your aloneness. Sometimes that's totally impossible but in many cases it's not
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