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The Jordan Harbinger Show

125: How to Cure PLOM (Poor Little Old Me) Disease | Feedback Friday

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Education, Science, Business

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Jason DeFillippo (@jpdef) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!

If you want us to answer your question, register your feedback, or tell your story on one of our upcoming weekly Feedback Friday episodes, drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com. Now, let's dive in!

On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:
  • Your brother in law is a narcissist with a bad case of PLOM (Poor Little Old Me) Disease and is clearly in the mindset to cheat on your sister -- if he hasn't already. Is it your place to warn her even though it'll devastate the family?
  • Is it your fault that you -- and the rest of your coworkers -- are always disappointing your boss because you never seem to be able to read her mind and discern her intentions?
  • Using the networking skills we teach in Six-Minute Networking, how do you actively develop new contacts?
  • When your current job was able to accommodate your needs in order to retain you, you had to renege on another job offer you had already accepted. How do you reach out to make peace and mend a bridge you never intended to burn?
  • When you have an estranged parent who has only lied to you and disappointed you over the course of your entire life, how should you take their disclosure of a personal tragedy?
  • After graduation, you'll have three months until you start your full-time job. Should you use the money you've saved up through college to travel for those three months, or should you use it to pay your student loans?
  • You work in an office full of people who share political views that widely differ from your own. Should you put up with it quietly, offer your counterpoints, just pretend to agree with them to avoid friction, or look for a new job entirely?
  • When you live in a country overrun by state-driven propaganda, what's the best way to stay informed of real current events so you can critically weigh the evidence and formulate your own views?
  • Recommendation of the Week: Three Identical Strangers
  • Quick shoutout to everyone who joined us at our live event in Las Vegas for Advanced Human Dynamics! 
  • Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!
  • Connect with Jordan on Twitter at @JordanHarbinger and Instagram at @jordanharbinger.
  • Connect with Jason on Twitter at @jpdef and Instagram at @JPD, and check out his other show: Grumpy Old Geeks.

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0:30.0

Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host Jordan Harbinger and I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo.

0:35.0

I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving. If you celebrated American Thanksgiving the other day. If you celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving, I also hope you had a great Thanksgiving whenever that was.

0:44.0

Here on the Jordan Harbinger show, we love having conversations with our fascinating guests. This week, we had Dr. David Bus talking about jealousy, mate retention, and why people do seemingly irrational things in relationships in order to keep their partner or upgrade to another partner.

0:59.0

And we had my friend Kristen Karney here on the topic of depression, which is extremely common here around the holidays especially.

1:07.0

Of course, our primary mission is to pass along our guests insights and our experiences and insights along to you. In other words, the real purpose of the show is to have conversations directly with you.

1:17.0

And that's what we're going to do today here on Feedback Friday. You can reach us Friday at Jordan Harbinger.com. Try to keep them concise if you can. It really does help us get your question answered here on the air.

1:28.0

As always, we've got some fun ones and we've got some do'sies. So I can't wait to dive in Jason. What's the first thing out of the mailbag?

1:34.0

Hey, Jordan Jen and Jason. I'm very close to my sister who's 27 and is two years older than myself who has been married for seven years and has four kids. I've also been friends with her husband who's 28, often on over the years.

1:45.0

Years ago, my parents cautioned me on it being inappropriate for her husband and I to be close buddies, so we've been distant friends for a long time.

1:52.0

We struck up a bit of a friendship again a few weeks ago, just sending funny memes back and forth in a group message. Shortly afterwards, he confided in me over a private text that he was dissatisfied with the lack of sex in their relationship.

2:03.0

So I encouraged my sister in a roundabout way to be sure to not become one of quote unquote those wives who shut off that part of the relationship.

2:11.0

I offered to keep the kids for a weekend and encourage them to spend some time together.

2:15.0

My sister is a growth mindset type of woman, a hard worker, incredibly generous, fairly sheltered, and naturally pretty despite having four kids pulling it from all sides day and night.

2:25.0

She's a little stressed at their tight budget, but she's a positive person with deeply conservative Christian roots.

2:31.0

I checked in with him again this evening because he wasn't responding to my questions about whether I had helped, since she responded very positively when I encouraged her to check in with him about how they're doing.

2:41.0

His response was basically that it didn't move the bar enough, even when I suggested that he outright tell her his frustration and request more sex. I'm a very straightforward person that way.

2:50.0

He proceeded to tell me that it's useless, he's tried it, which I doubt, and that he's constantly fantasizing about other women and has almost cheated several times, going as far as driving to a girl's place.

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