TAKE THIS PERSONALLY: The Cost of Loving the Wrong Person: From “Perfect Life” to Unsubscribing
The Bobby Bones Show
Premiere Networks
4.8 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
What happens when love slowly turns into manipulation?
Ginny Priem shares her journey from a successful corporate career and a life that looked “perfect” on the outside to a relationship filled with gaslighting, financial abuse, infidelity, and emotional trauma she didn’t recognize until it nearly broke her. Together, we unpack how narcissistic abuse hides in plain sight, why red flags are so easy to miss, and how stress and intuition can show up physically when something is deeply wrong.
This episode is about trusting your gut, understanding why “just leave” isn’t that simple, and learning how to rebuild your sense of self after betrayal. If you’ve ever questioned your reality, ignored your intuition, or wondered how someone ends up in a relationship like this... you are not alone. Plus, we explore what comes after leaving: breaking generational patterns, letting go of hustle culture, redefining success, and learning how to “unsubscribe” from people, habits, and expectations that no longer serve you.
Content note: This episode discusses infidelity, emotional abuse, and medical trauma.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:26.4 | If you've ever been in a relationship where to the outside world, everything looked perfect. |
| 0:29.1 | But the reality was not at all what it seemed. |
| 0:30.3 | Yeah, you're not alone. |
| 0:37.0 | We're getting into those kind of relationships this week because Valentine's Day comes with a lot more than just happiness around love. So here we go. |
| 0:42.2 | I'm here this week with Jenny Primm, and I'm really excited because we're continuing the series |
| 0:50.4 | all about love and relationships and everything in between. Jenny, thanks for joining me. |
| 0:54.7 | Oh my gosh. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. I'm excited that you're here. |
| 0:58.4 | And we have to go all the way to the beginning to really understand your entire story to where you |
| 1:04.0 | are now and why you're talking to people about relationships and why that matters and finding their |
| 1:09.7 | best selves because that's a whole |
| 1:11.0 | piece to this. But your story started somewhere completely different. And that's where I would |
| 1:16.1 | like to begin. Oh boy. Yeah, let's go back to the beginning. Like you said, I had this corporate |
| 1:21.4 | job that I loved. I worked in medical aesthetics. I was a corporate leader for over 20 years, |
| 1:26.9 | two decades. I always joke that I, because I worked in medical aesthetics, you can't tell my age. I was a corporate leader for over 20 years, two decades. I always joke that I, |
| 1:28.6 | because I worked in medical aesthetics, you can't tell my age. I can't. You look amazing. |
| 1:34.2 | But I traveled a lot for work and I love to travel for fun. So I was living my best life. |
| 1:40.6 | Working my big fancy corporate job with my big salary of my fancy car my fancy clothes |
| 1:45.2 | and thought that was like everything that defined success for me at the time and I was introduced |
| 1:52.7 | to this guy Chad and I was not interested. Before you even continue this, I do know how this story |
| 1:59.3 | kind of goes but his name's Chad and honestly that tracks. So please continue. Let me just preface. I named him Chad. Okay. Okay. That makes me feel better. It's not his real name. And I don't do it for protection of him. I do it for protection of some other people that will get to. Okay. But he hated that name, so that's why I chose it. But it sounds like he was a Chad. So let's be clear. Yeah, okay. He deserves the name. You're right, it tracks. So he was courting me, pursuing me, and I was just not interested for two reasons. Number one, because I just explained, I had this great life and why ruin a good |
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