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If You Need a Wake-Up Call Talk to Children In Your Family
Children have no filters and would say the hard things we need people to tell us.
“Oren, you should have children; I want to meet them,” my 12-year-old nephew told me on Saturday. He and his siblings have been staying with us for the weekend.
And it never really dawned on me how much it would sting when a kid is sprinkling salt on your “open wounds,” so to speak.
Next month I’m turning 35 years old, and I’m not even in a relationship. I’ve had several relationships in the past. Still, it never worked out because I was either in significant debt and didn’t know how to communicate it, so our communication was never 100% open, or I was overweight, which wasn’t too sexually appealing.
I understand why it didn’t work out every time, but I haven’t been doing anything about it.
And when my little 5-year-old niece told me I’d look like a grandpa by the time I had children, it was the last straw. Yes, I have a handful of white hair follicles sticking out, so what? What I need to take care of is my weight.
And I kid you not; the same day my brother came to take his children back home, I started doing burpees to work on my entire body. And I was a wreck. Adjusting my diet is…
