What Is Weaponized Incompetence?
Give It To Me Straight
Dear Media
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🗓️ 22 February 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Does your partner complain about unloading the dishwasher because they “don’t know where things go?” or maybe they don’t do the laundry because they don’t know the “right” way to do it. This behavior is called “weaponized incompetence,” a common form of gaslighting or manipulation. In this episode, Jon and Alex discuss the signs of weaponized incompetence in relationships and how you can address it with your partner!
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| 0:00.0 | Like there's a reason why this person is out of your life. |
| 0:02.4 | Do I think you need to go out of your way to block them? |
| 0:04.7 | Shut the! Oh, And welcome back to give it to me straight. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Alex. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm John. |
| 0:30.4 | What's up? |
| 0:31.4 | I'm your friend. |
| 0:32.4 | You're more than my friend. I'm your friend. You're not you're more than I'm your hobby. You're more than you're more than my friend. This laptop feels like it's 9,000 degrees. Let me feel that my hands are freezing. I have like a little cards. I have a, I have like a little cards. |
| 0:43.0 | I can say I have a deck of cards box underneath this laptop so I could breathe. |
| 0:47.0 | Great. I feel like it should be something that's not burnable. |
| 0:50.0 | Well, we don't have anything and you know what I'm adapting to the situation. |
| 0:53.8 | All right so what's up give me your highs and your lows how you doing? |
| 0:57.7 | Happy what's the day Monday. I'm happy we're home you know we had a really |
| 1:01.6 | we had a beautiful wedding this weekend, but it was a long weekend. |
| 1:05.0 | You know, we spent the entire year of 2021 just traveling and we've been pretty spoiled. |
| 1:10.0 | We've been in our house December, January. |
| 1:13.4 | So spoiled, we got to stay at our house for two months. |
| 1:16.3 | And traveling for the weekend for work, |
| 1:19.1 | it felt like how all of last year felt. |
| 1:21.5 | It was just a long 72 hours, for sure. |
| 1:24.2 | I mean, we drove from Virginia to New Jersey |
| 1:26.9 | and then we filmed like, |
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