The traps some people set for us by playing the victim
The Overwhelmed Brain
Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | These are my personal opinions. Always seek a professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to another episode of the overwhelmed brain. If this is your first time, my name is Paul Koliani, and I'm here to help with life's challenges, life and relationships, really. |
| 0:23.2 | Life is made up of all of our relationships with everyone and everything, so that's kind of |
| 0:28.9 | where I gravitate toward. |
| 0:31.4 | That's where people write to me about. |
| 0:33.9 | And thanks for joining me today. |
| 0:36.3 | If you are a longtime listener, then you've been probably doing this for years. |
| 0:42.3 | And I wish you the best after years of listening to me because I've grown too. |
| 0:50.3 | I've grown with this show. |
| 0:52.3 | I started it back in 2013 and then I got a divorce. |
| 0:57.7 | And that was a learning and growing experience. |
| 1:00.1 | It really taught me a lot because I believe the marriage was forever. |
| 1:05.2 | This is it. |
| 1:05.9 | You get married and then that's it. |
| 1:08.7 | You stay married and then you have a happy life together, unless you've got |
| 1:14.3 | problems, unless you have issues you need to deal with. I believe in bringing the best |
| 1:20.0 | version of yourself into a relationship so that when both people do that, they have already |
| 1:27.1 | worked on a lot of stuff. |
| 1:28.6 | You know, maybe they still have stuff to work on, some healing to do here and there. |
| 1:33.1 | But they've done the majority of it, so they get into a relationship and they don't bring |
| 1:37.4 | just too many dysfunctions. |
| 1:40.3 | I was going to say no disfunctions, but that's really hard to do for a lot of people. |
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