Tim Arrigo talks to a man re-entering dating after a 20-year marriage about building self-worth on things that matter. He uses a red Ferrari metaphor to warn against chasing material signals, and they discuss what standards actually mean when you have two daughters watching.
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You know what's funny is guys with the red Ferrari, they think they got options. I could get any chick I want. No, you can't. No, you can't. Now you'll continue to attract the same women that are only attracted to you because of the things that you flash, because that's where your sense of worth is established. And guess what your relationship ends up being? Because I know, because I've talked to hundreds of these guys, empty and hollow at the end of the day. I'm not saying you can't have a red Ferrari and having them have an amazing marriage. That's not what I'm saying. What I am saying is when the red Ferrari is the thing that gives you a sense of worth and the thing that you use to overcompensate for your lack of worth and the thing that you use, right, as a hook, right, to try to bring people into your life, to try to flash what you have and to try to attract them into your life, right? Don't be surprised when your relationships are meaningless, empty, and hollow, and people only want from you what you can give them, not who you are. And you don't want that. No. You already came from that. So don't shoot yourself in the foot, man. Do what you already did again. Don't go back into the loop of doom.
Don't. Got it. Yeah. Just the unknown. I— part of me feels I'm ready to explore a relationship, but it's just a little trepidation, a little bit of doubt, a little bit of— dating has changed quite a bit. I mean, when you get married in 2000 and it's 2025, rules of engagement are a little bit different. We've got a lot of, a lot of different things at force here, a lot of play. Um, and I bring some things to it, you know. Yeah, I, I was left with two, two girls, 22 and 15, so somebody's going to have to accept the fact that I had children in a prior marriage. So it's, it's not everybody's catch, but it is what it is, and I'm not going to apologize. I would