I’m Afraid I’ll Raise My Baby To Become An Evil Man

Other People’s Lives

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Society & Culture, Comedy

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🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Try BlueChew FREE when you use our promo code OPL at checkout at https://bluechew.com - just pay $5 shipping This week we spoke with a woman who is afraid that her newborn son will grow up to be a bad person. She talks about how suffering at the hands of men and experience trauma has caused her to feel this way. She also talks about how she is working through her fear and trauma. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Finally, when I told my mother that my dad had raped me when I was about 12, 13, I finally told her and she didn't do a single thing.
0:10.0	She told me that there's nothing we can do about it, or unless you want to go homeless, which of course at the time I'd rather be homeless because I was always afraid that my father was going to do it again. Welcome back to other people's lives.
0:30.0	Welcome back to other people's lives.
0:31.0	I'm Joe Sanigato.
0:32.0	I'm Greg Dybeck.
0:32.8	For anyone out there that would like to be a guest on our show, don't hesitate to reach out to us.
0:36.2	Our email is OPL Podcast at gmail.com. Just send us your story and we'll get back to you.
0:41.2	Today we're speaking to a woman who reached out with a topic that we have never really heard
0:46.5	discussed before and the woman is a trauma and abuse survivor herself and she reached
0:51.6	out with the subject line,
0:53.0	I'm afraid I'll raise my baby boy into becoming a rapist slash monster.
0:58.0	So we're going to explore what it's like for her as a new mother to raise a boy after herself suffering at the hands of men throughout her life.
1:06.7	So we've got the guests on the line and thank you so much for being on today.
1:10.0	Yeah, of course. I'm glad to be on.
1:13.4	Yeah, and, you know, first of all, thank you for presenting this topic to us.
1:18.6	We know that it's never easy to talk about any past trauma and that you know I'm sure it's also considered
1:25.1	taboo for new mothers to talk about you know fears around how their child may grow up
1:29.6	so thank you for reaching out and picking our platform to discuss this.
1:35.0	Yeah, I haven't really heard much about this topic either.
1:38.0	I think I've only met one other woman and it was online that felt the exact same way I did about this topic but for the most part yeah I don't really hear about it so but I'm sure I'm not the only one.
1:51.3	Yeah no that's never usually the case we learned on this show, but I guess to be able to understand your fears and talk about your current journey with motherhood and these feelings, can you just share some of the personal trauma
2:05.2	that you have experienced growing up
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