E621 Ask Nick - I Think I’m Emotionally Abusive
The Viall Files
Nick Viall
4 • 24.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to another episode of The Viall Files: Ask Nick Edition! We’re back to answer your burning questions about the world of dating and relationships. Before getting to our callers, we discuss the Women’s World Cup, a woman who turned down an ice cream date for being the “bare-minimum,” and the deadly power of icks. We then get to our callers.
Our first caller has been dating someone for a month, and she’s worried she’s becoming emotionally abusive. She’s toeing the line between asking for what she wants and demanding unrealistic expectations, and isn’t sure what is too much. Our second caller is three months post break-up and is wondering whether he should reach out and fight for her. After his 8-year relationship ended, he’s not ready to give up, and wants to know if and how he can save what he’s lost. Our final caller’s best friend has been cheating on her boyfriend, and she’s not sure what to do. She loves her friend, and is worried about her friend group of enablers, but can’t stand by and watch her exhibit this toxic behavior.
“Just because you’re sad, doesn’t make them special.”
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to another episode of the Vow Files Ask Nick |
| 0:18.8 | Edition. I'm your host Nick, joined by the household of, what's the, what do we got |
| 0:24.1 | here today? Jen, Amanda and Derek, Ali is dying. No, she's kidding. What's the most embarrassing |
| 0:29.8 | sickness? Not that Ali has anything embarrassing. I'm not embarrassing. Ali's hard working and |
| 0:34.3 | just down for the count. But what would be the sickness that you would want that would |
| 0:38.0 | be like, it would be a hard to call in to work and be like, sorry, and I got one time |
| 0:44.4 | we had to put my dog down and I didn't feel like that was inappropriate enough reason |
| 0:49.1 | to not come in. So I said that a relative died. It's true. A very furry little, a little |
| 0:54.2 | likey about that though. Like technicality. Exactly. But then they asked who was maybe a |
| 1:02.0 | little inappropriate of them. So I had to make something up on the fly. You had a like |
| 1:06.0 | so like a great, you had to make up like a great uncle. Yeah. I just said a grandfather. |
| 1:11.6 | I said he's been struggling for a while. That's close. That's so close. Did you? I didn't |
| 1:17.0 | have any grandfather's at the time. So they were already dead. I felt like that was okay. |
| 1:20.7 | So you were just re-killing them. Yes. But then I got really, I had to convince myself |
| 1:26.0 | all day. You know, she told the other camp counselors because she was like, I was a camp |
| 1:30.0 | counselor. Someone needed to fill in for me and I just, I spent like six hours believing |
| 1:34.7 | this line that I got home and I was like, well, what a tough day. What a tough loss for |
| 1:41.6 | the family. Then we had to put my dog down. Oh, that's really sad. I do feel like now, |
| 1:47.0 | or maybe it's just Los Angeles because it's such a big dog city. But I do feel like if |
| 1:50.2 | you said that, people would be like, Oh, LA. I mean, oh my god. Take take a week. Oh my |
| 1:54.2 | god. Are you okay? Yeah. It's that friend. God, here's here's something money for your |
| 1:58.8 | loss. And I'm going to be more positive than like a person. Like I want to say at this |
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