Top Reasons People Stay In Bad Relationships and My Response to the Psychobabble

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:26.0	at Dr. Laura.com. So somebody sent me an article from the internet, top reasons we stay in bad relationships. so I go through it and I realize this is
0:41.8	inundated with psycho babble the minute I see you have low self-esteem that's it it's over
0:52.1	it's over these mistaken notions of what self-esteem is, just drive me crazy.
0:59.1	It's such a good excuse. Why did you do that? Why didn't you do that? Because I have low self-esteem.
1:03.7	Oh, okay, that solves it. By the way, how do you get high self-esteem? Nobody answers that.
1:10.6	Well, so if you have low self-esteem,
1:12.4	then you're going to have that till you're dead.
1:14.6	How do you remedy your self-esteem?
1:17.1	No answer.
1:18.5	Crickets.
1:22.0	Crickets.
1:24.9	So don't do the self-esteem, psychobabble stuff.
1:30.0	Won't get you anywhere.
1:32.9	Look tougher.
1:34.2	So I thought I'd give you in no order of importance.
1:38.0	I'm like that.
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