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Talk to me.

I'm done. Cut the show. I'm done. Take me off. Take me off.

I mean, this is very sad because he's coming here to see if the man who raised him because he didn't feel loved is really his father. Can you imagine that? The parent you had in your house, you're like, I'm just not convinced you're my father because you didn't love me enough. Nice to meet you. So please, Ricardo, tell me, how was life growing up?

I would say that it was kind of rough.

What was your father doing?

Traveling. His mom raised us.

So he was absent? Yeah. Okay. Who did you stay with exactly again?

My grandmother.

So you stayed with, was that his mother?

His mom.

Okay. And was she older?

Yes.

So grandma tried to step in and do the best she could, but she was older at that time.

In her 40s or 50s.

That ain't old. You tried it.

I think about 50 though.

He did try it. I'm telling y'all, all y'all little young people out there who think that 30 or 40 or 50 is old, let me tell y'all something. You gonna learn really quickly when you get to this age. As a 40-year-old, you realize life is just starting. You thought it was cute in 20 and 30? Baby, wait till you get to 40 and you feel very comfortable and secure in yourself and you got all the resources you need. 20, 30, that's trash. Let me let y'all know that right now. 20s and 30s are trash. Throw it away. Basura. It's 40s and 50s where it's at. Believe me. Trust. So when did you start living with your father then?

At the age of, I would say, 10.

At 10.

When she was murdered.

Oh, that's when she was murdered. I'm so sorry to hear that. Okay, so how, was your father abusive to you?

Not really, he chastised us. But as I got older, he began to put his hands on me.

It breaks my heart to hear that he says that as I got older, my father started to put his hands on me. It just gets to a place where you're like thinking like, why would you want to see a child? I just never understood this for myself as even as a parent, I just couldn't do it myself. I would never hit my kid because I'm like, I'm so big and you're so small. What am I getting out of hitting you? Is that really my best way of informing you that you can be better. And I know we grew up in a world where it's like, you know, people feel like, oh, just, you know, like, just, you know, hit 'em. But like, when you, I just, I don't get it personally. Like why people feel like, just, I wish we could just record somebody who thinks it's okay to hit their kids. 'Cause I'm like, look how big you are and look how small. If I was kicking a dog, sorry, I don't wanna go on this tangent.

But you get what I'm saying?

It just always confuses me when I see people who are like, Look how big you are. Look how small. So what do you want most from him today?

What I want from him is I want him to be a father. I want him to be receiving of corrective criticism.

Got it.

He needs to understand that I am 34 years old and I no longer have no more fight in me to keep allowing people to hurt me.

I'm sorry.

I can't do it no more. Yeah, I take that. So I have to let go.

Yeah, you're tired of fighting. I don't have any more fight in me.

Yeah. And I don't even know what to say.

I'm just speechless.

You know, listen, when he said, "I don't have any more fight in me," oh, I felt that. 'Cause sometimes you're just exhausted. You don't have any more fight. To like try to make it work. And I think sometimes that's a clear indication that it's time for you to take a break, that it's time for you to say, let me step away from this and then come back later. In this moment, you brought yourself on the show, so I'm gonna try to help you through that moment. But in real life, if you feel like I'm exhausted, it's okay to just like say, you know what, enough is enough. By saying I don't have a fight in me, it's saying I'm about to set a boundary that I can heal and grow on my own, and maybe we can come back together later. And it's something that we have to say and we have to acknowledge when people say it, what they're saying actually.

You can't be a father to a child who's not present. If you're not in the house and you're steadily going to programs, not because of nothing I've done, but because the choices you make, you can't be a parent. You can't be a parent to someone who's absent.

Okay, so you feel like He was out of the house and so that's therefore you couldn't be a father? Is that what you're saying? Or you were out of the house?

No, what I'm saying, him going to programs, getting in trouble in school and being away keeps me from being that nurturing, that loving father that he needs.

Your first assumption is like this man has a problem with his son's sexuality, but then he says he doesn't. But then he says something I've heard many times. People are like, it's when you do too much. But it's like, what does that actually mean? When someone says you do too much? Is it because they're communicating their feelings? Is it because they're trying to express to you? Is it because they are more vocal? There's no line. That's where the line is. And it makes it a little confusing of like, because now that bleeds into who I am, which can relate to sexuality for some individuals. And I think it's important that we watch that language. You do too much. You gotta find exactly what it is that you're trying to say because it can become confusing. I don't wanna say this man is homophobic, but I do understand why his son could feel like when you say I do too much, that he's saying it's layered to him.

I mean, I love all my kids the same. There's no different kid.

Yeah.

You love each one different.

I came out though, and because I didn't feel as though I was loved, and that's the truth. —And there's no lying.

That's the truth. —Did you raise him?

I raised him and his brothers.

Okay, 'cause he says the first 10 years of his life, more so, he lived with your mother.

We did. That's not true because what happened was when I got custody of him, my mother stepped in because me being a teenager.

So how old were you when you had him? 16. 16, okay. And he's not your first. So at 16 you already had 2? Yes. Okay, got it. Okay. And so 16 to 26, I understand. So you're going through your own things, you're trying to figure out your own life. He's craving his mother's validation and love. Was she 16 as well? She was? Yeah. And so you just want your parents around during that time? Right. So you were there, but you couldn't fully be there because you were younger?

Right, I was in high school. Yeah, okay. And you know, just going to school, trying to be a parent. I mean, learning how to be a parent early age, but at least I did step up to the plate to get them. I could've just let them go into foster care or go into the care of the state, but I stepped up.

So what exactly— You know, I can't lie to you, it's always weird to me when parents won a medal for stepping up. Well, I was going— He's like, "Well, I mean, I could've put you in foster care." Like, really? That's an option you had?

Pretty much trying to be a parent.

I mean, I understand what he's trying to convey. Like, I was there, but it's like, If you have this, if your child in this world, you don't have a choice. It's like you have to be there. That is, this is your responsibility. And I don't know why we have to give awards for that. It's like, this is what you do. It's common sense.

I don't have a problem with his sexuality. I have a problem with it when he gets overboard. He start doing things, saying things that he shouldn't say. When I come back, with the lashing of the tongue, it's because of the words that he said. See, it takes two to have those things. I'm only gonna take so much of you talking to me any kind of way. I'm the parent. I'm not saying that the parent is right, but I'm just saying you have to respect your parent and you have to be careful what you say because when you— I do. Always be ready to handle the heat in the kitchen if you gonna throw the heat out. Got it. So why don't—

But as his father, why don't you just walk away then when he starts to get it? We understand, and you're a very smart man, when kids lash out, it's because they're going through pain. I was a young father as well. So my child was born when I was 16. So I understand that there are moments where, like even now, there's only a 15-year difference. And so when he says stuff to him, sometimes I see a grown man. I'm looking at him like, if he was on the street, it'd be a different situation. But I have to click myself into, I'm the father. So your words are coming from a state of pain. There's something that's hurting you From something in your childhood, from your mother, something that's hurting you. So I can't match your pain. So why don't you, in those moments when he hits, as you said, brings the heat in the kitchen, why don't you just walk out the kitchen? Why don't you just say, let me walk away?

Well, I'm not that guy.

He said, I asked him, why can't you walk away? And he said, I'm not that guy. That's exactly where the growth needs to happen. Like if I spend another 2 hours with that man, I'd be able to help him identify that's the problem. This is why you're communicating and you're fighting with your child. This is why you say things that's constantly hurting your child is because I asked you, why can't you just walk away instead of matching his pain, matching his fire? I'm not that guy. And that's the issue now because he needs you to be the guy who can walk, who can be better than what he's experiencing in his pain. How did it make you feel that he wanted the DNA test?

Well, I was shocked. Yeah. But at the end of the day, a DNA test does not make him not my son.

I want to know from you, can you acknowledge—

My daddy don't care about me for real, sir. And that's it. Like, after I leave here today, he will be blocked. I actually disagree with that. How? I actually disagree. Tell me how. Because— Tell me how.

Don't say that there's not dysfunction here. I believe there's dysfunction. I believe y'all got into a pattern of hurting each other.

He's going to walk away just so, sir.

I promise you. But I also saw the breakdown in communication. I saw him say several times. I do believe that you should have still walked away. I saw you get to your point. Did we all see it?

That doesn't hurt my feelings. We all saw it, right? It don't hurt my feelings.

'Cause I didn't ask for what I got.

I know. So it don't matter. But as you're trying to heal yourself. I'm good on him. As you're trying to heal. I'm good on him. And I'm telling him that too. Your face, I'm good on you. The relationship ends today.

Well, let's figure this out because I think the thing is, is if you're saying that you are done with your father, it's what you least need to know if he is your father or not. So this has the DNA results to show if this is your father or not.

He does that all the time though, so. This is yours to see. Okay. Yeah, he is my biological father. Okay. Yes.

He came here to find out if he wasn't his father and I think that If he wasn't his father, the DNA results would've been different, I do believe that he would've still been upset. I saw you get to a place where you just like, we're not gonna go there, we're not gonna do this, we're not gonna do that. And then you said, okay, we gonna go there. Can you commit to in those moments when you hit your moment, just walk away? Because in this moment, even if you would've got up and just walked off, then he wouldn't have felt the embarrassment, he wouldn't have felt whatever he's feeling, the disrespect, that I could have probably broken through. But right now there's no breakthrough for me because what happened is any wall that was down got built right back up.

Oh, that's it.

And so now he goes right into the attitude and he's mimicking your attitude. You know that, right? This is, he mimics your attitude. So there's something that you all missed that in the moment y'all didn't see. As they were going together and you caught a little bit of the father blurting out and saying something that we all got shocked to, but he actually continued on saying more that had to come out the edit. About his son's past and it just was ridiculous. It literally was bad. And I had to assure this young man that we would never use any of that, which we did not. And you know, so when you see him saying, "Cut the show, cut the show," it's because he felt so violated. He felt like, "You just revealed so much about me that why would you do that as my father? Why would you do that? To get back at me?" And so that's where that reaction is coming from. He's like, I'm done. I've been hurt my entire life and now you just hurt me again purposefully. You did not need to share so much stuff. It's interesting that this clip has went viral on TikTok. People use it as a trending sound, which is not funny because like this little boy's little trauma and then we like, we like, you know, but that's what y'all do on social media.

Cut the show. I'm done.

Take me off. Y'all take whatever y'all want. But not I don't want it. Y'all wrong for that. I'm going to tell y'all, but it's funny. But it's not funny. I don't even know. I'm conflicted. But y'all made this a trending sound.

Take me off. Cut the show. I'm done.

Can you make that commitment for him? No.

Can you make that commitment? No, I don't want it. I came here. I do not want it.

I came. Because I do love him.

No, he does not.

Regardless of the outcome. I'm done.

I don't want it.

Regardless of the outcome, whatever happens from this point forth. I'm good. I'm good.

From here on out, he has to just stay away from a while. I think this is a moment where they have to separate. There's too much retriggering each other. Hurting each other, that there's, like I said before, anywhere where the wall could have been broken down, it went right back up when the father started disrespecting him. And I think you saw a little bit of it, but there was a lot more. And I think that context helps people to understand that like he's making the best decision for himself by severing ties for right now. And I'm glad that he can actually take his moment for himself All right, now it's time to cut the show. I'm ready to go. I'm ready to go. I can't do it no more. Cut the show. Cut the show.