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The Best Thing You Can Do for Your Sons

9 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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A father's treatment of the boys' mother teaches them how to value women. The speaker shares how his own father's disrespect toward his mother damaged his early relationships, and argues that modeling respect and affection, even through divorce, is the single most important gift a man can give his sons.

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The best thing you can do for boys is just treat their mother really well. They just see it. I really try to demonstrate emotion and affection around her. I defer to her judgment in front of the boys. I just try to make sure the boys know that their mother is really valuable and they see it by the way I treat her. I think that's gonna create much more healthy relationships for them. I think that's the best thing you can do for your boys is just treat your, even if you're divorced, just be really good to the mother because my dad wasn't. And I think it really, quite frankly, damaged my relationship probably with women. I think I could have been kinder to women when I was a young man.