When did the speaker say they made the promise to their newborn son?

Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

I TRIED TO BURN THE "MAN" OUT OF MY SON

30 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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A personal reflection (first-person speaker) about parenting and gender: the speaker recounts holding her newborn son in 1988 and deciding to remove traditionally 'male' traits from him, later realizing that male behavior stems from deep, primitive instincts and a duality she initially misunderstood. The piece explores evolving views on masculinity, parental intentions, and innate human instincts.

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With my son, whose father was not helpful during his birth. I held my son in my arms and I promised him I'd make sure he had brilliant relationships with women. And at that time in 1988, that meant I was going to burn the man out of him. Yeah. This is before I found out I was bringing the worst out of men. I thought it was who you all were, that the worst in you is you and the rest is just pretend or fake or act. I didn't understand the duality. We're so primitive. We have instincts that predate climbing out of the ocean. We share instincts with the trees in your backyard.