How Marital Struggles Affect Children

Your children don't deserve to be the collateral damage for the work that you're not doing. See, you think that it's not hurting anybody. You think that your kids don't pick up on it, but it's affecting their development. Because why? They see you and your wife not showing one another affection. They pick up on the energy in the environment. And what happens is inevitably what happens is your greatest fear, your worst nightmare. Your kids, God forbid, might have to go to therapy. Your kids, you might be paying for therapy in 10 years because you procrastinated and waited on the fence and put off some work because of that avoidant style that you have. By being avoidant, avoiding things, sweeping them under the rug, and escaping into areas of your life where you can achieve and be somebody. You can be somebody at work, but what happens when you come home? And I know that you dread coming home. You dread coming home because you're not sure what awaits you on the other side of that threshold of your house. Is that the life you want to live? In an environment that's completely counterproductive to my growth. And the problem is you can only pour so much into your business until what happens? You start to use the business maladaptively and it backfires on you. And what did you work your whole life for? To enjoy what you have, to spend time with your family. And the sad part is your children end up being the collateral damage from the work that you refuse to do to change yourself, change your marriage, change your situation. And change the way that you show up to that situation. And here's the problem. Yeah, regret can leave scars that never heal, especially when you know that you could have done something different, but you chose not to.