

"And then I found out later on in life that he wasn't as perfect as I thought he was." I adored my dad, and I adored him since I was a little kid. As the ladies discussed whether parents and children should "lower their expectations" of one another, she offered Griffin advice from "Zen buddhist" teachings and encouraged Ana Navarro to further examine her relationship with her father. It's a wound that you have.' What is your wound?"īut Behar really got going in the final Hot Topic segment of the morning. Because that determines what a lot of your personality is going to be. "You ask the question, 'What was the trauma in your childhood?'" she said. Behar didn't seem to care about knowing her husband's turn-ons or favorite food, instead favoring for a more intense approach. The first mention of childhood trauma came during a discussion about the most important things to know about your partner (during which Behar also joke that guest co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin is "living in sin" because she moved in with her husband before getting married). Behar shoehorned her trauma investigation into three different Hot Topics, which both derailed the actual discussion and gave the episode an entertaining (if somewhat distracting) through-line. As she's wont to do, Joy Behar spent Friday morning attempting to psychoanalyze her co-hosts and identify the "childhood trauma" that has shaped them into the women they are today.
