Growing Up Without a Dad: How Father Wounds Shape Sons

In this episode, we examine father son relationships with care, clarity, and no judgment. We explore how certain father figures through absence, harsh expectations, emotional dismissal, or attempts to control a son’s feelings can create long-lasting emotional impact.

Using a context inspired by Garden State, we look at how Andrew’s father blamed him for his mother’s death and tried to manage Andrew’s emotions through medication highlighting a pattern many sons experience in real life: authority replacing understanding, and emotional safety being replaced by control.

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