Unfiltered at Fifty Ep.20 | Red Flags, Abandonment, Childhood & Why We Choose Who We Choose

Jennifer and Kim get real about men’s mental health, childhood experiences, abandonment, and how the things we go through growing up can shape the relationships we choose as adults. From missing closure and fear of rejection to ignoring giant red flags just to make a relationship work, this episode asks a big question: how much of who we love is connected to what we experienced growing up? New episodes of Unfiltered at Fifty drop every Friday. Chapter List: 00:00 Welcome Back to Unfiltered at Fifty 02:00 Are Men Really Okay? 04:30 The Pressure Men Carry 07:00 How Men Were Taught to Provide 10:00 Why Men Don’t Talk About Their Emotions 13:00 Seeing a Man Cry for the First Time 15:00 Where Do Our Fears Come From? 17:00 Jennifer’s Childhood and Her Dad 19:00 “Don’t Cry, Only Sissies Cry” 22:00 Was Jennifer Always Afraid? 24:00 Childhood Injuries and Growing Up in the 70s 26:00 Jennifer Fell Out of a Moving Car?! 30:00 Fear, the Ocean and Childhood Memories 33:00 The Terrifying Hoover Dam Photo 36:00 The Man Who Was Going to Adopt Jennifer 39:00 Losing Another Father Figure 42:00 Growing Up Without Closure 44:00 “Was I Not Good Enough?” 46:00 How Childhood Shows Up in Adult Relationships 49:00 Jennifer and David’s Long-Distance Beginning 52:00 Being Afraid to Admit You Like Someone 54:00 Kim’s Childhood Feelings About Men 57:00 Why Did “Husband” Always Mean Angry? 59:00 The Adoption That Never Happened 1:01:00 Ignoring Red Flags Because You Want It to Work 1:03:00 The Relationships We Thought We Needed 1:04:30 What Was the Biggest Red Flag You Ignored? 1:05:30 Final Thoughts and Outro Listen to the show on: Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... iHeartRadio:https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-un... Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/2adnV88... Follow us on: TikTok:  / unfilteredatfifty   Instagram:  / unfilteredatfifty   Like, follow and subscribe for new episodes every Friday. Produced by Robert Altschuler. Recorded and mixed at Command Creative Studios: https://www.commandcreativestudios.com/ #UnfilteredAtFifty #RedFlags #Relationships #ChildhoodTrauma #WomenOver50 #GenXWomen