I Found My Guidance in the Negative Spaces Caused by the Destruction of Decency

Walter Rhein Podcast · Mar 31, 2026 · 7m

I remember being so lonely. I was forced to grow up in a conservative community. I had a cruel, patriarchal father who could never be wrong and who must always be obeyed.A consequence of having to deal with him was that I had to keep things hidden. I learned to lie both deliberately and through omission. Secrecy became survival.I knew that if I showed him anything I cared about he’d mock it at best, and destroy it at worst. I had to hide my feelings from him. From our very first days together he imposed upon me a need to learn how to deceive.White supremacists laugh at the idea of boundaries…