Family court isn’t decided in filings. It’s decided in the small moments you think are private.
The question your kid asks at the dinner table weighs more than a dozen affidavits, because it never stays in the room...it travels. Fathers who explain, vent, or soften it hand the system their weakness. Fathers who hold steady let silence carry the weight.
This episode lays out how restraint builds credibility, how patterns outlive arguments, and why the answer you give once can echo for months.
