This content was created by Tim Arrigo. This content was uploaded by Tim Arrigo. This is a YouTube video titled "You’ve had it all…except your relationship and family are suffering" (created April 28, 2023) featuring a monologue by Tim Arrigo. He addresses men who have prioritized external success and money over family life, urging them to downshift, become emotionally available, learn conflict-resolution and apology skills, and invest effort into their marriages and children; he frames practical tools and a call-to-action to contact him for help.
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You've had it all. You've had all the financial success. You've had all the success externally. You've put all this effort. Your, your entire worth has been based on the outside. Your worth has been based on your work. Your worth has been based on what you've been able to accomplish in your life. And see, on the inside, your wife and kids are suffering. You don't know how to downshift. You don't know how to go into a different state when you come home, being emotionally available, fully present for your kids. It's like What's that going to create for your life when you start investing into your family? When you start putting forth the amount of effort that you put in your work and in other areas of your life and your success, when you start achieving success in your home, you're going to have a better sex life with your wife, better intimacy, better communication, right? Your kids are going to look at you like a superhero. All these areas of your life, you've been neglecting the inside of your life. You've been neglecting the house because that was something that really was never a part of your life, that you never really thought was— you thought it would come easy, you thought it would come natural, but it hasn't. And so a lot of times you, you engage in this performance-based love, like, I gotta perform to be loved. When people in your life, they just want to spend time with you, they just want your time, they want your attention. That's all they want. They want you to listen, they want you to— that, that's how they— that's their love language. That's, that's how they feel appreciated by you, is when you give them the amount of attention that you give everything else in your life. When you give them the amount of attention that you give the world, they want to know a deeper part of you. They want to feel connected to you. They want to be a part of your world. And it's like you can't let them close, but you die on the inside because you value your family. And then you end up going into these, you know, temporary escapes, these little vices, these little, you know, pleasures that you chase just to temporary alleviate yourself of the stress and the anxiety of the fact that it's like, I don't want to go to therapy, I don't want to sit down with a counselor, I don't want them to, you know, solve my problem. I know I can fix the problem in my marriage. I know I can fix the problem inside my house as a man. And that's the biggest part that just drives you insane. And all you need is the keys, brother. All you need is those keys. All the only thing you're missing is the right tools to be able to resolve conflict, learn how to apologize, understand understand why you're so critical. Remove ego and emotion and step into a place in your life where you can meet your family where they're at. Your family is gonna suffer. They're gonna suffer immensely if you don't start to take action. And I know it's like, it's hard for you to believe that downshifting could make you more productive, that downshifting could make you better, could make you more efficient. It's hard for you to believe that because you've poured so much into the external. But what has it truly given you? What did you work all this time for, truly? To not enjoy it? To not enjoy what you have? No, you work this hard so that you could give back to your— you did it all for your family anyway. And then it's like you feel like your family doesn't appreciate you. I know on the inside, you know on the inside, that you can fix every problem that's happening in your family. If you just had the right tools, the right solutions, and you stop putting that power in the hands of therapists, psychologists, the school, and you started realizing that the only thing that you're missing is a key— few key ingredients to solving that major issue in your family, that major issue in your marriage. I want to tell you today that you're capable. And if you want to learn more about this, Shoot me a message. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about how to get you back to the place, or get you for the first time to a place where you start putting forth as much energy, effort that you do in your work and outside of your home. Put that into your home and start to achieve some real success inside your house. You shouldn't be giving more to the world. What is it? What does it pay a man to win over the whole world but lose himself and his own family in the It doesn't pay. And it leaves you feeling alone. It leaves you feeling empty. And when the work is gone and there's an empty nest, there's gonna be a void. And you're gonna feel that void. Act before it's too late.