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Back to EpisodesI Think the Pandemic Broke Something in Me. Five Years Later, I'm Still Putting It Back Together.
Description
March 2020. Robbie was six months into being a dad — the exact moment in life when you're supposed to be leaning on people, asking for help, building a village. Instead everyone shut down, locked up, and learned to fear other people. He went along with a lot of it. He's still paying for some of it.
This one is less a structured episode and more a genuine processing session — about how a guy who used to host barbecues and talk to strangers became someone who keeps people at arm's length, and whether that's just him or something a lot of people are quietly dealing with and not talking about.
Topics covered: why the pandemic hit new parents especially hard, how lockdown rewired Robbie's relationship with other people and community in ways he didn't expect, the social isolation hangover that nobody's really talking about, how political division replaced the pandemic as the next thing keeping people apart, and what he's trying to do to get back to the person he was — and the person he wants to be.
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