717: Coming Out as Polyamorous to My Family | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
While you're in the most fulfilling relationship of your life, how do you let your fairly conservative family know it's not quite what they'd consider traditional? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:- How do you let your straight-laced family in on the fact that you're in a fulfilling, polyamorous relationship with two other people you love dearly?
- You're a teenager whose parents never allowed you to go to public school, but they never homeschooled you, either. How can you be expected to make it in the outside world and improve yourself without an education?
- You recently lost your battle with a gambling addiction and blew far more money than you had. Two questions: are there legitimate debt relief companies, and how can you build positive habits to make you more resistant to your unhealthier impulses?
- Inviting your girlfriend and her daughter to live with you has turned into a nightmare. If you break up with her, you have to face the guilt of throwing a depressed single mother with a suicidal daughter out of your house and deal with the emotional pain of losing someone you care about. But are you being fair to yourself if you remain in this relationship?
- Your evangelical ex left you because his faith has convinced him that your gay relationship is a sin, but now he wants you back — even though he still holds these beliefs. Is there any scenario where this could actually work?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with |
| 0:07.3 | my Feedback Friday producer and best friend that is my FFP, FBFBFF. I like to keep things |
| 0:12.9 | simple around here. Gabriel Mizrahi. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, |
| 0:18.2 | secrets and skills of the world's most fascinating people, and turn their wisdom into practical |
| 0:22.6 | advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. So we want to help |
| 0:26.5 | you see the matrix when it comes to how these amazing people think and behave. And our mission, |
| 0:31.5 | on this show, is to help you become a better informed, more critical thinker so you can get a much |
| 0:36.4 | deeper understanding of how the world works and make sense of what's really happening, even inside |
| 0:40.8 | your own mind. If you're new to the show on Fridays, that's today. I don't care when you listen. |
| 0:45.4 | Today's Friday. We give advice to you. We answer listener questions. The rest of the week, we have |
| 0:50.2 | long-form interviews and conversations with a variety of absolutely incredible people from spies to |
| 0:55.2 | CEOs, athletes, authors, thinkers, performers. This week, we had Cindy Otis, a former CIA agent who |
| 1:02.0 | now specializes in combating disinformation, how ironic. And Joe Martjant, one from the vault, |
| 1:07.9 | on the placebo effect, what it can do and what it cannot do, the limitations of the placebo effect. |
| 1:14.1 | This will help separate a lot of the health and wellness scams and mumbo jumbo from the real thing. |
| 1:18.3 | A lot of people think the placebo effect is just all kinds of medical things that happen in your mind |
| 1:23.6 | and the truth is it's far more limited than that and we need to be mindful of that or we will |
| 1:28.1 | get scammed. And more dangerously, a lot of people avoid getting real medical treatment because they |
| 1:33.5 | think they can placebo their way out of things that are frankly going to kill them. So make sure you've |
| 1:39.1 | had a listen to everything that we created for you here this week. Gabe, what's the first thing |
| 1:43.9 | out of the mail bag? Hey, Jordan and Gabe. I live in Ohio and I'm happily in a polyamorous |
| 1:49.6 | marriage, meaning that I have multiple serious relationships at the same time with the knowledge |
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