274. Listener Storytime: When Staying Felt Safer Than Leaving

Finding Mr. Height: The Podcast

Ali Jackson

Relationships, Society & Culture

3.9 • 712 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

TW: This episode includes discussion of grief, miscarriage and emotional abuse.

This week, Ali is joined by a listener who shares her story of leaving a marriage rooted in cultural pressure, low self-worth, and years of emotional abuse. The conversation covers the internal voice she ignored while engaged, the compounding grief that finally pushed her out the door, and what it's looked like to rebuild on the other side.

This week's Media Mention is a video by @zkiaba on TikTok, where she pushes back on the idea that men are in a social crisis, arguing that what we're seeing is the first generation of men experiencing life without systematic advantage.

In Updates, Ali is recording live from Greece on her ninth group girls trip with FMH Travel.

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0:00.0	at the same time, not just try to look for connection just because I can, right?
0:05.3	It's so easy to open up your phone and get on an app and swipe and talk to somebody
0:10.3	and situation ship after situation ship.
0:13.5	You're like, what am I really looking for? Hello and welcome to another episode of Finding Mr. Right the podcast.
0:29.7	I am your host, Allie Jackson, and I am bringing you my positive and practical approach
0:33.1	to dating relationships and a whole lot else about life, brought to you by my lived experience.
0:37.9	Hello from Greece. I am at the tail end, sad, of my ninth group girls trip, Wild, that it's been
0:46.4	nine trips now with our 10th one coming up in October. And we are back where the very first one was
0:51.6	in Greece. This week, though, we've been in Crete, which is my first time in Crete. It's been absolutely incredible. You can see all the things we've been doing if you're following along on mostly my Instagram. My Instagram stories especially, just posting all the fun stuff that we've been up to. And if you're interested in traveling with me and with this group of gals. I've also been doing a series that I'm
1:11.2	continuing today. So by the time this airs, all of them will be up and saved in a highlight
1:15.8	from the travelers themselves about why they love traveling in this group and the things
1:20.2	that they, maybe the misconceptions that they had beforehand or the things they were nervous
1:23.9	about and just what it's been like. So that's been really fun. And this group has
1:27.5	been amazing. I am looking forward to getting back home. I'm only home for a few days before I head
1:33.6	out to adult nationals for volleyball. But I'm very much looking home. Looking forward, goodness,
1:39.5	to being home with Skyline, with the kitties. He's been sending me many videos, but they are just not the same.
1:45.5	I need to snuggle them. I need to snuggle them. I'm looking forward to it. This week, I am sharing
1:50.0	a very powerful conversation, a listener story time from a listener who reached out about how she
1:56.5	grew up in a culture where marriage wasn't just expected. It was the milestone. Like,
2:02.6	that's true to a very large extent in many, many cultures. But in particular, the culture that
2:09.9	she grew up in, it was like the thing, the thing that meant that you'd made it. And in addition to that,
2:16.9	she had people in her life telling her not subtly, things like
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