The Seminary Betrayal: When Academia Destroys Faith
Tex explains how attending a legitimate academic seminary systematically destroyed his childhood belief system. Professors taught historical-critical Bible analysis while explicitly forbidding him from ever preaching those findings to actual congregants—creating an impossible cognitive dissonance. After discovering that biblical scholarship contradicts fundamentalist teaching, watching his meticulously 'courtship marriage' implode to a pregnant affair with an old hippie professor was the final nail. It turned out following all the religious rules guaranteed nothing.
The Seven-Year Slut Era: Revenge and Self-Discovery
Post-divorce, Tex entered what he calls his 'seven-year whoring days'—a vengeful period of sleeping with as many women as possible, developing enough of a reputation that friends of his conquests were hitting him up for repeats. During this era, he encountered a PhD genetics student living in a house of academically-minded women who would casually invite their friends into ongoing sessions, which fundamentally shifted his understanding of sex and desire. This period of hedonistic exploration accidentally became his informal sexual education and personal awakening.
The Narcissist-Autistic Nightmare: When Manipulation Meets Adaptation
Tex reveals he's diagnosed autistic and explains the toxic combination of dating his narcissistic baby mama while being neurodivergent—a dynamic where her survival strategy was manipulation and his was adaptation, making him hypercompetent at accommodating her abuse. After five years of an increasingly open relationship (at her increasingly dysfunctional insistence), he realized he couldn't sacrifice his mental health just to give his son a 'perfect' two-parent household. Breaking free meant accepting that a broken father can't raise a healthy kid.
Finding the One: Swinging as Relationship Glue
Tex met his current wife through mutual friends who joked they were both 'weird'—meaning nerdy and academic. They discovered their shared swinging interests early in marriage organically rather than negotiating it beforehand, and their current setup involves strict boundaries, airline-traffic-controller-level communication, and always playing together with other women (never couples, never solo). He emphasizes that healthy swinging depends absolutely on explicit communication and mutual respect—it's not about replacing your partner, but adding novelty to prevent routine from killing desire.
The OnlyFans Experiment: Six Grand and Too Much Work
Tex and his wife briefly attempted OnlyFans as a Christmas bonus project, making around $6,000 over a few months while wearing Batman/Catwoman masquerade masks to protect their careers and identities. They ultimately quit because the effort required—producing content, managing logistics, coordinating with schedules—was unsustainable on top of their existing careers and parenting duties. The experiment proved the gap between making 'easy money' online and actually having the time and energy to execute it consistently.
You assume the best in other people as an autistic person, but narcissists assume the worst and they're manipulative. When you get an autistic person with a narcissist, it's like a toxic combination—our survival strategy is adaptation, theirs is manipulation.← All episode posts