Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux 6150 How to Gain Male Authority!
Oct 22, 2025
In this call-in, a listener navigates the trauma of growing up with an abusive mother and his choice to cut ties with her. He shares insights about the emotional fallout on his marriage and how it impacts his parenting. Important discussions arise around establishing healthy boundaries and the necessity of having authority figures in family dynamics. They delve into the challenges of communicating with his wife about these issues and the need for solid models of authority as he raises his children, emphasizing resilience and honesty in overcoming past traumas.
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Childhood Abuse And The Decision To Separate
- The caller recounts enduring physical and emotional abuse from his mother through childhood and adolescence.
- He separated from her (defooded) after a two-hour honest phone call in October 2022 to protect his children and family peace.
Survival Tactics In An Abusive Home
- The caller describes being beaten often and learning to lie to survive household violence.
- He adopted avoidance, submission, and deception as adaptive survival strategies during repeated episodes of yelling and physical abuse.
Female-Dominated Upbringing Reduced Male Models
- The caller grew up in a female-dominated immediate environment with mothers and female teachers in charge.
- That upbringing left him without local male role models to model benevolent authority.