He Wouldn't Leave An Abusive Relationship, So I Cut Him Off!
The Mental Healness Podcast
Lee Hammock
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
One of the hardest lessons in life is learning that you cannot save someone who isn't ready to leave an abusive situation. Long before I started speaking online about toxic relationship dynamics, I had to make the incredibly painful decision to cut off one of my best friends because of the toxic relationship he refused to walk away from.In this video, I share that personal story and break down the emotional toll of watching someone you care about choose toxicity over friendship. We discuss why your advice isn't landing, how being the "caretaker" enables the cycle, and why setting boundaries with a struggling friend is sometimes the only way to protect your own sanity.
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| 0:24.1 | When was the last time you stopped and listened to your body? |
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| 0:30.8 | Go on. |
| 0:31.9 | Tune into your body's energy levels. |
| 0:34.7 | Is your brain struggling to focus? |
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| 0:51.7 | Back your body, Holland and Barrett. |
| 1:08.5 | When your friend is in a relationship with a narcissist, it's one of the toughest situations to deal with as someone that has empathy, as someone that cares, as someone that is trying to be there for the person that you love and care about. |
| 1:16.6 | Your friend, your family member, your sister, brother, cousin, aunt, mom, dad, whoever it is. It's tough watching them be in a toxic relationship and getting treated horribly, but not leaving or keep going back and forth into it, y'all. |
| 1:21.0 | That's what we're talking about today. Of course, if you knew here, I'm Lee Hammack. I'm a |
| 1:23.8 | diagnosed narcissist myself. Welcome to another episode of the Narcissist's Code. |
| 1:47.8 | Boom, welcome back, folks, welcome back, welcome back, what is going on, folks? Before we hop in today's episode, y'all, what do y'all want to see on this channel? What would make you click on the videos more? |
| 1:53.6 | Nobody's clicking on the podcast. I had two great podcast interviews that I did. Nobody's clicking on them. |
| 1:58.7 | So what do you want to see on this channel? I'm going to move the podcast to its own channel. What do you want to see on this channel? Drop your thoughts and comments in the comment section. I'm taking everything seriously, I promise you. But let's happen today's episode, y'all. I get this question a lot. Lee, my sister's in a toxic relationship. She won't leave. My brother keeps going back and forth to this toxic woman. I don't know what else to do. |
| 2:20.5 | I'm getting frustrated. my sister's in a toxic relationship, she won't leave. My brother keeps going back and forth to this toxic woman. |
| 2:19.3 | I don't know what else to do. |
| 2:20.5 | I'm getting frustrated. |
| 2:22.0 | The isolation is getting worse. |
| 2:24.0 | Man, this is so tough to deal with y'all. |
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