How To Stop Loving Your Abuser Trauma Bonding, Feminism & The Lie That Traditional Women Are Weak S4. Ep1.
2 Be Better
Chris Burkett
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The heart of this episode is a raw email from a listener who left an emotionally and physically abusive relationship after a 15 year marriage and a childhood soaked in man hating and feminist indoctrination that labeled traditional women as “weak.” Chris and Peaches unpack trauma bonding, why people keep going back to abusers, how percentages like “he’s good 85 percent of the time” are delusion, and what it actually takes to walk away, grieve the fantasy, and rebuild self respect. They tackle modern feminism, traditional marriage, AI and the economy, the collapse of standards in dating, and the responsibility to raise the next generation not to tolerate abuse. If you are looking for blunt relationship advice, traditional relationship and marriage guidance, help healing from abusive relationships, or practical masculine and feminine polarity talk without fluff, this episode is for you.
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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 |
| 0:09.5 | from the bottom of all I want is you. |
| 0:14.7 | You're my favorite view, but there's nothing more. |
| 0:20.4 | Girl, you made my happy. And we are back. |
| 0:24.1 | Welcome back, you bumble bitches. |
| 0:25.6 | Season four, episode one of the To Be Better podcast. |
| 0:31.6 | This feels good. |
| 0:33.6 | Doesn't it? |
| 0:34.6 | I like this. |
| 0:35.6 | What started off as a joke has become a career, a community, and a movement. |
| 0:40.3 | And we're in year four of it. |
| 0:41.5 | And we are in year four. |
| 0:42.5 | Five years is established. |
| 0:44.2 | We're not going anywhere, bitches. |
| 0:45.2 | I actually think that in, in terms of business, making it past year three is massive. |
| 1:11.0 | Year one is making or break it for a lot of businesses. And then from one to three, it's like trying to find your footing. And then after year three, it's just up from there. So like I think we found our footing. I think that we've got a whole lot of things that we're doing that are like preparing us for future endeavors. And I'm fucking super stoked about it. Me too. |
| 1:13.7 | There was some things that happened Sunday. |
| 1:15.1 | Was it Sunday? |
| 1:16.2 | It was Sunday for the birthday part of. I want to touch on that matters to me. |
| 1:20.3 | Okay. |
| 1:22.4 | We, I'm a bonus dad. |
| 1:26.7 | I am there as the backup as far as I'm concerned to the parental male figure of this young man. |
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