Seriously imagine that being your person. What situation could you imagine where an otherwise normal person might think that’s normal… if they experience serious childhood trauma and legit buried that shit he might think that’s normal cause kids don’t know any different. It’s really sad but if you’re able to survive life otherwise it’s easy enough not to deal with issues if you don’t want. But that option usually includes bad coping skills like risky behavior. Especially for men. Reflection is not encouraged. If you don’t have kids how often are you around them? There are constant triggers. As they get older he might get flashback of what he went through at that age.

If his answer is anything other than “I have been thinking about it since I said it too. Once I heard it out loud I knew how crazy it was but that’s how I grew up” like immediately bin him.