Fan Mail Friday #66 | Unfriending In Real Life

The Art of Charm

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🗓️ 10 June 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Time for Fan Mail Friday, where we'll be answering your questions and dropping some knowledge and feedback to help you kick the weekend off right. Let's cut to it! In this episode: If a partner is going through therapy and the 12 steps for recovery from alcoholism -- and doing well -- is it reasonable to worry they might have a relapse because of their "proven" addictive personality? What causes someone not to take an opportunity -- even when they have an offer that would vastly improve their lives sitting right in front of them? A listener writes in to give us more great ways for long-distance couples to stay connected. Would you rather get a direct but short reply from a busy person, or a longer reply from someone who's been outsourced to answer that busy person's mail? As painful as breaking up with a romantic partner may be, it at least has social precedents to follow. But how do you break up with a friend -- or nip a one-sided friendship in the bud? (Check out our recent episode with Sam Harris for some insight into dealing with difficult truths over intellectual dishonesty. Foreign language hacks are a dime a dozen. So here's a triple foreign language hack that might help you learn a new language while putting those idle hours you spend on Facebook to good use. Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@theartofcharm.com! Show notes at http://theartofcharm.com/podcast-episodes/fan-mail-friday-66-unfriending-in-real-life/ HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Time for fan mail Friday. I'm your host Jordan Harbinger and I'm here with producer Jason
0:04.8	DeFilippo. We'll be answering your questions and dropping some knowledge and feedback to
0:08.9	help you kick the weekend off, right? If you're new to the Art of Charm Podcast, this
0:12.7	isn't a great place to start. Most of our content is much more in-depth and longer format.
0:17.5	So check out the best of at the Art of Charm.com slash best or the fundamentals toolbox
0:22.9	at the Art of Charm.com slash toolbox. That's where we've got the fundamentals of body
0:27.2	language, nonverbal communication, attraction, negotiation, networking, and everything else
0:31.9	we teach here at the Art of Charm. We'll send all of this to your inbox if you text charmed
0:37.1	that's CH-AR-M-E-D to 3-3-4-4. All right, let's cut to it.
0:43.0	Our first question of the week. Hi Jordan, I'm in a relationship with this girl and she's
0:47.0	great. She's fun, she's funny, she sets boundaries, she leaves me alone to do my hobbies and
0:52.0	supports them, she thinks I'm amazing and she's attractive. She's very non-needy and she's
0:57.0	happy. However, she used to be an alcoholic and is an alcoholic synonymous and is almost
1:02.2	finished her first year. I'm not sure if I have an issue with this, it makes me uneasy
1:06.8	but I can't figure out why. I don't drink much myself and hate bars and clubs. The
1:11.4	fact that she's in AA means she's getting therapy, she's identified a problem in her
1:15.4	life and is getting it fixed. She's often expressed and has shown that she has a growth
1:20.2	mentality, she shows her faults and wants to improve herself. Yet I'm hung up on her being
1:25.3	an alcoholic. She's getting therapy for it and is doing fantastically and I know from
1:29.8	listening to the podcast that most everyone either is seeing a therapist or ought to see
1:34.5	a therapist. I guess my worry is that what if she relapses? Or I feel I can get another
1:40.1	girl just as great as her but without the past of an alcoholic and being in AA, which
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