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Do You F*cking Mind?

432. How to Stop Being the 'Righteous Friend' (Headnoise)

Do You F*cking Mind?

LiSTNR

Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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It's Headnoise Day! I answer some email questions you sent in from how to stop being the 'righteous friend' who constantly calls out friends to overcoming burnout!  

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0:00.0

Hello, beautiful beans.

0:12.4

Welcome to your podcast episode of today.

0:15.3

This is a head noise episode.

0:16.8

We have some great questions that have come through from you guys.

0:22.6

These are the email questions,

0:28.0

so I'm going to be reading them out. Also, keep coming at me with these fucking epic titles as well,

0:36.0

because obsessed, basically. Now, life update, everything's going well. Twins are kicking around like crazy.

0:54.6

I'm just so sure that these twins are boys, but I always get it wrong when I guess other people's genders. So I don't know. I know that like I've said before, they're identical. So it's either two boys or two girls. We're not going to find out the gender until birth. But yeah, that's kind of where my head is at.

0:54.7

And Tyrone, like, really wants girls. So he's like, he's just such a girl dad, girl dad energy. And I'm like, yeah, I think it's boys or when I get a kick, I'm like, oh, I felt him kick. He's like, hey, he, how do you know? And I'm like, oh, no, I don't. I don't. I just have this, like, sense that they're boys. I mean, don't get me wrong. I'd love to have girls. But yeah,

1:11.0

just feel that they're boys. I mean, don't get me wrong.

1:08.7

I'd love to have girls. But yeah, I just feel that they're boys. And he's like, well, why would you say that then? He's so hell bent on girls. But I think I like the idea of just waiting regardless because, you know, I think you'd just be thrilled either way. I don't think I'll give a flying fuck once they're born what the gender is.

1:10.6

So that's my main reason why I always wanted to keep it.

1:11.9

A surprise.

1:12.6

Anyway, just be thrilled either way. I don't think I'll give a flying fuck once they're born what the gender is.

1:28.0

So that's my main reason why I always wanted to keep it. A surprise. Anyway, let's get straight into

1:32.9

the head noise question. So this is the first one. How do I stop being the righteous friend?

1:41.4

Great question. Hi, Alexis. I've heard you mentioned on a previous episode the concept of the righteous friend, who is the one that calls their friends out all the time rather than picking the battles. Unfortunately, it resonated with me, but in a bad way as I think I'm that friend. One of my toxic inbuilt traits is constantly fighting all the small injustices of the

2:02.6

world and that includes being the righteous friend. I've lost friendships throughout my life because of

2:07.4

it. I'm now in my early 30s and I think it's stopping me from making new friends. I have it in my head

2:13.0

that the same thing is going to happen, that I'm going to point out something that I didn't like

2:17.7

or when they've handled a situation in a way that I can see is going to end up being a disaster.

2:22.6

So I sometimes avoid the situation of making new friends because I assume it's going to lead to the same point anyway.

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