How To!: Move Past Your Toxic Ex
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
After Lin met Dave, their lives quickly became entangled. Lin joined Dave's small business, made much-needed improvements, and charmed Dave's family. The two also began a romantic relationship that lasted years. When it fizzled, Lin continued working at the company—and eventually uncovered Dave's lies, deceit, and infidelity. On this episode of How To!: Carvell Wallace welcomes Nina Renata Aron, author of Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls, to share her own experience exiting a toxic, codependent relationship and explain how she came to terms with it.
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| 0:29.8 | I'm like oh my god God, like please help. |
| 0:32.5 | Like I wonder if anybody else is going through this, |
| 0:35.0 | like am I wrong for feeling this? |
| 0:36.7 | Like I literally, I mean honestly this person, |
| 0:39.5 | the way they were communicating with me, |
| 0:41.0 | had me feeling that I was crazy. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome to How To, the show where people call in with their toughest questions |
| 0:51.0 | and we find the perfect expert to give them guidance. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm Carvel Wallace. |
| 0:56.0 | So I will not be the first person, nor will I be the last, to make the observation that intimate relationships |
| 1:00.9 | can be, let's say, messy. |
| 1:04.6 | I mean, sometimes the messiest ones |
| 1:06.3 | are those that span years or even decades. |
| 1:09.4 | They might be on again or off again, |
| 1:11.5 | or they have hurts and then forgiveness and then more hurt. |
| 1:15.9 | And if you throw in addiction and abuse and maybe other toxic elements into the mix, what we thought |
| 1:22.0 | was a loving relationship might turn out to be something else entirely. |
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