729: Sexsomnia Guilt-Free After PTSD? | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
As you have a higher libido than your partner, it seems as though it should feel like a blessing when he makes sexual advances on you in the middle of the night when his sexsomnia ("a rare sleep disorder in which a person engages in sexual activity during their sleep") takes over. But this is problematic for two reasons: A) It briefly triggers your PTSD from being sexually assaulted in your sleep years ago, and B) When your PTSD subsides, you feel guilty for engaging in sex with a partner who can't give consent in the moment (though he has told you on multiple occasions after the fact that he's fine with it). How can you handle this in a healthy way? We'll try to find answers to this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:- Waking to your sexsomniac partner's nocturnal advances triggers PTSD from earlier abuse, and makes you feel guilty for engaging in sex with someone who can't consent in the moment. What's the healthiest way to deal with this?
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- Is there a special IRS gifting loophole that allows participants of a pyramid scheme to sign a waiver so they won't be legally liable when things inevitably go south? And if so, why would you consider signing such a thing?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with |
| 0:07.8 | Feedback Friday, producer. The gluten-free tortilla holding this breakfast burrito of life |
| 0:12.2 | advice together. Gabriel Mizrahi, but you know, if it's the gluten-free ones, they fall |
| 0:16.4 | apart. That's the problem. Not as bad as the spinach ones, the spinach wraps are the worst. |
| 0:20.4 | That's a problem with his analogy. Or is it just more accurate? Depends on the show, |
| 0:23.8 | really. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's |
| 0:28.2 | most fascinating people, and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to |
| 0:32.2 | impact your own life and those around you. We want to help you see the matrix when it comes |
| 0:36.2 | to how these amazing people think and behave. And our mission is to help you become a better |
| 0:40.6 | informed, more critical thinker, so you can get a much deeper understanding of how the |
| 0:44.4 | world works and make sense of what's really happening even inside your own mind. If you're |
| 0:48.7 | new to the show on Fridays, we give advice to you. We answer listener questions. The rest |
| 0:52.9 | of the week, we have long-form interviews and conversations with a variety of amazing |
| 0:57.8 | folks from spies to CEOs, athletes, authors, thinkers, performers. This week, we had Neil |
| 1:03.1 | deGrasse Tyson. I asked a lot of what I thought were, well, let's be honest, they're probably |
| 1:07.4 | kind of inane questions about space and astronomy, but I don't care. It's my show. I do what |
| 1:11.6 | I want. No, but this guy's so fascinating. Just a great communicator, great science communicator, |
| 1:17.3 | fun. We also covered how many pines have been in juries you can eat before you die. That |
| 1:21.9 | was insightful. You might find yourself using that, just saying, we also talked to my friend |
| 1:26.0 | Maria Connacova. This is one from the vault. She dives into the minds of con men, scam artists, |
| 1:31.6 | what makes them tick and how we can defend ourselves. Always, she is absolutely brilliant as |
| 1:36.4 | you would expect. And that episode is worth re-airing. So definitely have a listen to those |
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