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Ron's Journal:
Week 22



10/28 While talking to an insurance broker for Auto Insurance I told him what I am doing. We talked, his won was in the Marines and he has tried to get back with his son but, due to a devoice with his mother there is no relationship with his son. I shared that when I divorced my boys mother I would be at the bus stop, met them after school for I didn’t want them to feel abandoned. I knew that no amount of money and counseling could repair the damage it would do. Not to much unlike what we as a country do to our troops by not being there for them totally when they come home. I told him I did what is called radical honesty with the oldest. Which is we each have 2 hours to tell our life story then we each say what we admire and resent about each other. My son said you knew how I grew up; I said I don’t know how you saw it, I know how I saw it. So we did it and I saw that by being open and vulnerable I allowed him to do the same and that there are no thoughts and feelings I had that he hadn’t had. This had helped us be much closer and open. Imagine if our troops could talk like this when they got home, how much would this do to heal their wounds?

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