991: Should You Coexist with a Manchild Narcissist? | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Should you endure a toxic marriage for the sake of your son's relationship with his father, or run for the hills while you can? Welcome to 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!
On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:- You're contemplating leaving your narcissistic addict husband due to his poor treatment of you and your child, but you feel trapped financially and concerned about your son losing his father. Should you try to reconcile and accept him the way he is, or run for the hills while you can?
- Betrayed by a lifelong friend who used you in an eBay scam and left you financially accountable to his victims, you found closure years later at a party by forgiving him and letting go of your own negative emotions about the situation. But you can't help but wonder if you should've just punched him in the face. Did you do the right thing?
- After years of caring for your late mother's boyfriend like family, you feel disrespected when you're labeled as a vendor at a granddaughter's wedding, highlighting the family's lack of appreciation for your efforts. Are you still expected to bring a gift, or should you send them an invoice the day after the wedding for taking care of their grandfather?
- Your close relationship with your daughter's ex-boyfriend, now reformed from the issues that facilitated their breakup, causes tension with your married daughter, forcing you to choose between transparency or secrecy to preserve your bond. Should you continue to "sneak around" with your daughter's ex, or just be honest and let the chips fall where they may?
- You're a Canadian mom worried about your 18-year-old daughter's real-life meetup with the 23-year-old American boyfriend she met online. How can you ensure her safety (on the off-chance he might be a human trafficker or drug fiend) without damaging your relationship by being seen as overbearing?
- Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!
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- Connect with Gabriel on Twitter at @GabeMizrahi and Instagram @gabrielmizrahi.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:06.8 | As always I'm here with Feedback Friday producer Guru of Goodwill generously granting |
| 0:11.1 | golden guidance. Gabriel Mizrahi. |
| 0:14.0 | Wow, alliteration on point today. |
| 0:16.0 | You know how we do. |
| 0:17.0 | Gotta hit those consonants way too many times, baby. |
| 0:19.0 | On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the story, secrets and skills |
| 0:22.0 | of the world's most fascinating people and turn their wisdom into and informed more critical thinker. During the week we have long-form conversations |
| 0:33.8 | with a variety of amazing folks from hostage negotiators to Russian spies and |
| 0:38.4 | drug traffickers, astronauts, CEOs, generals, and tech luminaries. |
| 0:42.8 | On Fridays though, we share stories, offer advice, weave together the O.M.G. and the |
| 0:47.0 | L.O.L. and of course, mercilessly roast Gabriel for, well, first of all, cross-dressing |
| 0:52.3 | for the most important conversations of his life apparently. |
| 0:54.8 | I am never going to live that one down. |
| 0:56.2 | No, first of all we got like a hundred emails about it and |
| 0:59.5 | dams and LinkedIn messages. |
| 1:02.3 | So no, as long as my name is on this podcast the vermilion shirt or shall I say blouse |
| 1:07.7 | Shall live on forever. You don't do you still have that thing by the way? Oh no no it's long gone. Probably keeping a very |
| 1:14.2 | happy lady warm somewhere. That's right there's a librarian somewhere that's like I just |
| 1:18.3 | love this. I can't believe I found this to the it good will. Some lady wearing it to her knitting circle is so happy |
| 1:24.2 | with this purchase. What a philanthropist you are. I hope you washed off all the |
| 1:28.0 | existential dread sweat out of it before donating it to good. the shingle sweat before donating it to goodwill. |
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