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The Jordan Harbinger Show

1328: They’re an Ideal Pair, but Is Her Baggage Fair? | Feedback Friday

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Science, Business, Education

4.8 • 12.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

You're 47, dating a guy 15 years younger, and quietly drafting his exit so he can find someone "better." Noble move, or self-sabotage? It's Feedback Friday!

And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Gabriel Mizrahi (@GabeMizrahi) 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!

Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1328

On This Week's Feedback Friday:

  • You run daily, hold down a job, parent your kids, pay the bills — and quietly drink a fifth of liquor every single day. You're high-functioning by every external metric, but you're trapped in a loop where feeling like crap fuels the drinking. You wrote in hoping supplements might do the trick?
  • You're 47, met a guy 15 years younger at the dog park, and two magical years later he wants to move in. But you're widowed, infertile, and carrying debt from a traumatic marriage. You're convinced you're saddling this catch with your baggage. Is letting him go the kindest thing — or are you pre-breaking up with yourself?
  • You've been the family breadwinner for 15 years until a bad job move ended in bankruptcy. Your husband — diagnosed with BPD — has bounced between jobs, ignoring every training course you've funded. You've secretly stopped job hunting hoping he'll finally step up. How do you support him without twisting the knife?
  • Recommendation of the Week: Six Feet Under — Gabe's pick for the single greatest TV show ever made. The HBO family drama (2001–2005) about a clan running a funeral home becomes a five-season meditation on death, meaning, and being alive. Stick with it past episode three, he begs you.
  • You're a 40-something European attorney with a 24-year marriage and a life you built mostly on your own. But your clinically narcissistic dentist father and severely ADD mother left you with conditioning you can't outrun — episodes of rage, a haunting sense that your warmth might just be a mask. Now what?
  • 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 Gabriel on Twitter at @GabeMizrahi and Instagram @gabrielmizrahi.

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All it takes is a yes.

0:22.0

Welcome to Feedback Friday.

0:23.5

I am your host, Jordan Harbinger.

0:25.3

As always, I'm here with Feedback Friday producer, our very own Zenzaddy, old Plank Sinatra

0:30.4

over here, Gabriel Mizrahi.

0:32.2

Oh, wow.

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I love those.

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Bravo.

0:35.6

Well done.

0:36.3

Full disclosure.

0:37.3

I did take that from an Instagram video I saw with a bunch of yoga-related nicknames that a show fan sent me. Yeah. Got it. Playing Sinatra is one for the books, though. That's right. I thought you would like that one. There's a couple other gems in there as well. I am never going to be able to do a Chaturanga without thinking about that. Thank you. Well, you're welcome. Consider yourself Vinyasified. On the Jordan D'Arbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's most fascinating people, and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life, and those around you. Our mission is to help you become a better informed to more critical thinker. During the week, we have long-form conversations with a variety of amazing folks, Russian spies, former jihadis, arms dealers, generals,

1:15.4

rocket scientists, and war correspondents. This week, we had Simone Stoltzoff, author of

1:20.3

How to Not Know, the Value of Uncertainty in a World that Demands Answers. We talked about

1:25.3

how to increase our capacity to tolerate and even start

1:28.1

to appreciate the uncertainty that surrounds us. Some great feedback Friday-related wisdom in this one

1:33.2

really enjoyed it. We also had Eric Zimmer on big changes happening slowly over time. We also

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