From Hyper Independent To Traditional Wife | Leaving Abuse, Narcissistic Mom Trauma, And Finding Faith At 25 S.3 Ep.50
2 Be Better
Chris Burkett
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In this live 2 Be Better Podcast episode, Chris and Peaches start with real life wins and a behind the scenes look at building a traditional family and future homestead, from cutting almost $100,000 of debt and lowering monthly expenses to their goal of buying land by the end of 2026. They talk about Patreon growth, retreats, kids evolving emotionally, and Chris’s upcoming daily affirmation book with light lunar and planetary touches, giving you a grounded picture of what intentional marriage, parenting, and money stewardship actually look like in real time. You also hear a powerful success story from a fiancé who carried his partner through multiple deaths in the family, grad school, and even a very sick dog, then used the podcast to lose weight, repair their sex life, and step into traditional marriage roles with more communication, intimacy, and leadership.
From there they dive deep into a 25 year old woman’s email about leaving an abusive relationship, growing up with a narcissistic mother, living with BPD, and feeling stuck in hyper independence while secretly craving a traditional marriage as a stay at home mom, homemaker, and submissive wife. Chris and Peaches unpack shame, ego, and family control, challenge the “never depend on a man” narrative, and give practical tools for healing narcissistic abuse, setting boundaries, asking for help daily, and finding therapy and community that fits a more traditional woman. They also walk through her quarter life crisis, fear that it is “too late” to find a husband, and her early steps toward a personal relationship with Christ and God, explaining how to read the Bible, question religion, and build faith without surrendering your mind to a pastor or denomination. If you are a hyper independent woman who wants to be a traditional wife, a stay at home mom, and a homemaker, or you are navigating narcissistic family dynamics, abusive exes, BPD, or late in life faith, this Christian leaning relationship and marriage podcast episode will speak directly to you and give you clear, no nonsense steps forward.
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| 0:00.0 | And look how far we've come, all the things we've done, did it all with love, beauty from the bottom of, all I want is you, you're my favorite view, but there's nothing more. |
| 0:20.4 | And we are back. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome back, Bumble Bitches. |
| 0:25.6 | Today is November 4th. We are episode 50, I believe. |
| 0:31.6 | We have three episodes left to record for the end of 2025. |
| 0:36.6 | That's crazy. And then we'll be getting into |
| 0:38.6 | season four. And we decided we are going to do a onesie episode. But we're going to wear |
| 0:45.6 | onesies that we've already worn because I'm not going to spend hundreds of dollars on onesies |
| 0:50.6 | because we don't buy cheap, shitty onesies. Which I don't know why. Because you don't like just wear them once. Right, but you do. Right. This is like a one-time thing. We should get cheap, shitty ones. Just wear the ones that we wore last year and call it a day. Okay. Welcome to the people who are new here. Since we signed off of TikTok, we've gotten four or five new patron subscribers. |
| 1:11.5 | I wonder what that sounded like through your microphone. |
| 1:13.8 | Oh, I don't know. |
| 1:16.0 | We are going to be doing emails today. |
| 1:19.5 | I have renamed my sourdough starter. |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.6 | I'm really on the sourdough starter kit, guys. |
| 1:25.0 | I really want to find a way to package it and sell it and |
| 1:29.5 | distribute it to you. And I want to do it in a cost-effective way. And in doing so, I recognize |
| 1:35.9 | I can't pieces of Amelia, people are going to be like, Amelia Earhart, or like, I don't know, |
| 1:41.3 | I didn't want to have that. So I changed the name of my sour dough to... |
| 1:46.0 | This is so stupid. |
| 1:48.7 | It's dola fermentia. |
| 1:52.5 | And Dola is a... |
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