Second Dad: Foundations

Emotional Debt: The Cost of Avoiding Growth


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Most people don’t feel exhausted because their lives are hard.

They feel exhausted because there are things they should have dealt with years ago, and didn’t.

Avoidance doesn’t remove responsibility.
It defers it.

And whatever is deferred doesn’t disappear.
It accumulates.

In this episode, we make emotional debt measurable:

Avoided conversations

Unset boundaries

Decisions postponed

Discomfort managed instead of faced

None of these create immediate crisis.
They create an ongoing internal load.

This is why people feel tired even when life looks fine.
Why resentment builds without a clear cause.
Why does something always feel “off,” but nothing obvious is wrong?

Emotional debt isn’t a moral failure.
It’s an unpaid cost.

And unpaid costs always collect interest.

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Second Dad: FoundationsBy Liam Gately