#100: My Wife Can’t Handle the Baby • The Work of Byron Katie®

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Malik’s wife has been sick for a week. He's been taking care of their baby son, Jad, and has been doing all the household work. Now Malik is sick, and she feels too overwhelmed to even bathe Jad and Malik is unable to move past his anger. Welcome to the power of self-inquiry-welcome to The Work.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the work the work is inquiry it's a way to identify
0:09.8	and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering in your world.
0:14.8	Today my guess was Malik and oh I hope you enjoy him.
0:19.6	He is really worth listening to. He is, he flows in inquiry. He's such a great teacher. His mind is so open and I'll give you a little background here.
0:33.0	His wife's been sick for a week.
0:35.0	He has taken care of the baby, their son,
0:38.0	done all the work, and now he's sick and she's well.
0:42.0	And he is worried she's unable to handle it. You know enough said
0:47.0	Welcome to the work and welcome to time with money.
1:10.4	Hello, what's going on? What's going on? Those of you new to the work today, what this community does. We identify the thoughts that are causing all the suffering in our world. We identify them, we write them down, and then we question them. So that's what we're about and
1:16.5	Malik. Hi honey you filled in you've answered the six questions on the worksheet.
1:23.4	Yeah, I did it on the the work app.
1:27.2	Oh good.
1:29.2	Yeah, so I have it right here and this is this is fresh. This is from yesterday. Oh, good. So read what what what did you respond to for number one on the works sheet. So number one that's in this situation who
1:46.6	angers confuses sends or disappoints you and why is that right? So I'm angry
1:52.4	with Christina that's my wife, because she can't take care of Jad, that's our son.
1:58.0	Okay, she can't take care of your son by herself.
2:04.0	Yeah, she's one, he's one year old.
2:06.7	Okay, so what is the situation?
2:12.1	So I was feeling sick and she had been feeling sick the week before and we got some sort of stomach bug.
2:22.0	And as anybody was a parent here probably knows,
2:27.0	that thing just sort of works its way through the family.
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