Putting Up With Aaron Michael Marsh

I cover my life in 2001.  I was mugged, lived in a warehouse, lived in a YMCA, saw Randy Johnson hit a bird with a pitch and of course 9/11.  I forgot to even mention I also saw Randy Johnson strike out 20 batters in one game that year too.

I drop a lot of names in this story and I honestly want to share my most name droppy stories.  I have been in the stand up world for 13 years and every now and then you get a moment with a legend and they drop some wisdom on you and I want to share it with all of you.

Not celebrating the holidays with a dysfunctional family is 100% healthy.  No need to move your boundaries just because of where we are in the calender.  This episode explains my relationship with Christmas and maybe, hopefully it can help you if you or maybe help someone who doesn't understand.... avoiding toxic family members or entire unhealthy families is the best gift you can give yourself for the holidays.

"It is never my responsibility" may be obvious to come people but not to a codependent.  Also if you find yourself arguing with this list maybe look in to why you are arguing with a list.

The ACA (Adult Chrildren of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Famalies) Laundry List (Traits of adult children) seems touch alot of people and make them realize that they do have traumatic responses in their daily adult lives.  I go through the list here.  I am not ACA, I am just someone who works the program.  If you'd like to learn more about ACA after hearing this episode, find a meeting or some more literature at Adultchildren.org

As someone who doesn't have a substance abuse problem it confuses people on how I got involved in 12 step programs and what I got out of it.  In this series I am going to talk about the things I connected to and what I got out of them.  This first episode is about "Open Letter from an Alcoholic".  It is the first thing I connected to that made me curious what these programs had to offer.

I have barely known Tony for over a decade.  We always say hi when we see each other and he has always been nice to me, but let's be honest he got famous off of us begging for him to validate us as comedians.

In this episode I talk about how I handled a narcissist discharge/no contact with a toxic relationship. While going through different steps of CPTSD/Codependence recovery.  I get an apology and I owe her some redemption but I am still left with some unsaid questions.  I am also learning that unanswered questions are avoided because it involves accountability from someone who's main trait is avoiding accountablity.

THIS IS A REPOST FOR YOUTUBE   For something as common as herpes, the experience of finding out you have it is very isolating.  I have found that my experience was the most common, but it felt like I was the only person I knew to have ever had this be so devastating.  I am reposting this here for everyone currently finding out they have it.  You are not alone, just everyone who went through it doesn't talk about it

THIS IS A REPOST FOR YOUTUBE   Paco Romain and Aaron Michael Marsh discover that they were dating the same woman at the same time.  We talk about the red flags we ignored.  The way she lied and used us against each other to not keep us away from the facts.  And what recovery from a narcissist relationship.  I reposted this here because many men wrote me about their experiences of being cheated on and this feels like an important discussion for men to have with each other.  It is truly a unique podcast to hear two people who should be mad at each other really listen and validate our experiences through each other.