1144: Can Family Ties Overcome Son's Deranged Lies? | Feedback Friday

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🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

After a criminal probe triggered by your unstable son's lies, you lost touch with your grandson. Is reconnection worth the risk? It's Feedback Friday!

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On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:

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You raised a son with severe behavioral problems despite years of therapy and interventions. After your husband's suicide, your son fabricated horrific accusations against you, triggering a criminal investigation and severing your relationship with your beloved grandson. Now that this grandson is nearing adulthood, should you risk reaching out?
Your 65-year-old neighbor suddenly asked to borrow money twice in two days. When pressed, he revealed he's sending funds to a "longtime friend" — an architect stranded in Jakarta after an accident who just needs "one more payment" for surgery before flying to live with him. This is obviously a scam, but how do you save someone from their own delusion?
You work on an understaffed hospital team providing essential services while shouldering impossible workloads. After implementing numerous improvements, your requests for additional staff are routinely denied. A new job offers better work-life balance but less pay — and your current employer just invested $15,000 in your professional development. Should you stay or flee?
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You've ended the four-year relationship with your high school sweetheart after realizing your boyfriend — who complained about driving to see you and only made time once weekly — was planning to propose even though he could seldom be bothered to respect your boundaries or support your growth. How do you harness this newfound freedom in an empowering way without being overwhelmed?
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0:00.0	Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with Feedback
0:08.0	Friday producer, the moisture wicking headband keeping you dry on this marathon of sweaty life conundra,
0:14.0	Gabriel Mizrahi. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the story's secrets and skills,
0:18.3	the world's most fascinating people, and we turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you.
0:24.5	Our mission is to help you become a better informed, more critical thinker.
0:27.9	During the week, we have long-form conversations with a variety of amazing folks, war correspondents and neuroscientists to Russian spies and cold case homicide investigators.
0:37.0	This week we had Layla McElwate,
0:39.0	author of the book, Takedown. Layla is fascinating. She went on a mission to hold the
0:43.3	pornography website Pornhub accountable for sex trafficking. It's an absolutely wild story. She's
0:48.5	super brave. I didn't realize how much sex trafficking and rapy stuff went on. And I did stuff you don't think about.
0:55.3	And it's really dark what's on that website and how they got away with it for so long.
0:59.7	We also had a skeptical Sunday last Sunday on cannabis.
1:02.6	Yes, we did one a long time ago.
1:04.2	We decided to do it again.
1:05.4	We had to, well, it's a complex topic.
1:07.6	What can I say? On Fridays, though, we share stories, take listener letters,
1:16.3	offer advice, play obnoxious soundbites, and compare Gabe to various forms of functional athleisure. Yeah, but speaking of which, do you know who wasn't wearing functional
1:20.4	athleisure the last two days? Me, because I was on jury duty this week, and that's why we
1:25.7	had to record later in the week. Man, jury duty sounds like it could be awesome or a giant drag, but you can't wear
1:32.2	athleisure where you got to dress nice?
1:34.5	I dressed up a little bit. Maybe I just wanted the opportunity to dress up. There were a lot
1:38.8	of people wearing athleisure. Too much athleisure for my taste because the trial's not happening now. They're doing jury selection, right?
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