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He was a successful Yale lawyer.<strong> He had beaten the odds and achieved his slice of the American Dream. <\/strong>But his girlfriend Usha Chilukuri (soon to be JD Vance&#8217;s wife Usha Vance) helped JD realize that he still carried the baggage of his tumultuous upbringing. She pointed out that <strong>he still had no healthy mechanism of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/nvc-conflict-resolution\/\">conflict resolution<\/a>.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While he might not have taken to screaming, cursing, and vicious insulting like his mother, he would withdraw completely from her at the slightest disagreement. He feared becoming like Bev and desperately wished to avoid subjecting Usha (eventually JD Vance&#8217;s wife) to that experience.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On one occasion, Usha Chilukuri attempted to comfort JD after he\u2019d performed badly in an interview with a Washington, D.C. law firm. He exploded at her in classic Bev-style, yelling,<strong> \u201cDon\u2019t make excuses for weakness. I didn\u2019t get here by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/stop-making-excuses\/\">making excuses<\/a> for failure.\u201d<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He eventually apologized, expecting his future wife to pounce on this act of \u201csurrender\u201d and go for the jugular with him\u2014because that\u2019s exactly what <em>his <\/em>family back in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/middletown-ohio-history\/\">Middletown<\/a> would have done. But instead, JD Vance&#8217;s future wife forgave him and explained to him that he needed to learn how to talk to her.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JD further saw how much healing he needed to do when he went to Thanksgiving dinner at Usha\u2019s family\u2019s home. <strong>The family was happy and free of conflict and drama<\/strong>\u2014they actually seemed to <em>enjoy <\/em>each other\u2019s company. 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He researched the phenomenon called adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Common ACEs included being sworn at or insulted; being pushed or grabbed; witnessing a lack of support among family members; living with substance abusers; and exposure to people who were clinically depressed or suicidal. Looking back, JD realized that <strong>he had experienced all of these situations during the course of his childhood.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He saw that he wasn\u2019t alone. <strong>Over half of children growing up in working-class households had experienced at least one ACE<\/strong>. The contrast with non-working-class people, among whom only one in ten experienced an ACE, was stark.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children with ACEs are likelier to suffer from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/low-mood-and-anxiety\/\">anxiety and depression<\/a>, performly poorly in their studies, and experience unstable relationships\u2014tragically, the pattern of dysfunction in these children\u2019s lives perpetuates itself generation after generation.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As adults,<strong> people replicate the instability they themselves witnessed as children<\/strong>. Thus, JD\u2019s mother descended from being a salutatorian of her high school to the multiple marriages and drug addiction of her adulthood. Even people like his sister Lindsay, his cousin Gail, and his Aunt Wee, all of whom managed to achieve stability, struggled through periods of dysfunctional relationships. JD Vance&#8217;s wife would help him learn to stop the cycle of dysfunction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Never Turn Your Back<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>JD\u2019s new attitude toward his mother would once again be put to the test when she turned to a new drug: heroin. This time, however, JD worked to help his mother get on her feet. Following the advice of Usha Vance\u2019s father, <strong>he was practicing empathy rather than turning his back.<\/strong> The family of JD Vance&#8217;s wife continued to be an influence on him.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He checked her into a Middletown motel to help her avoid homelessness and monitored her finances to make sure she stayed on track. He was acting more like a parent to her, as if she were <em>his <\/em>child. And he accepted his limits: he couldn\u2019t solve all of his mom\u2019s problems, she had to fight some of her battles on her own. 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