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The Mental Healness Podcast

Why A Controlling Person Fears You Talking to Their Ex

The Mental Healness Podcast

Lee Hammock

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Why does the person you are with desperately try to keep you from ever interacting with or meeting their ex? If they claim the ex is simply "crazy" but go to extreme lengths to make sure your worlds never collide, there is a dark strategic reason behind the secrecy.

In this video, I break down the behavioral mechanics of why controlling and abusive people isolate you from their past relationships. We discuss narrative control, the fear of victims comparing notes, and how keeping you separate allows them to continue the cycle without being exposed. Stop letting them control the history books.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Why does your abusive partner hide their ex?

0:04.6

Why won't they let you meet their exes?

0:07.5

Why do they spread such vicious rumors and just say the most negative, horrid things about their ex, but they still in contact with them?

0:18.0

Why is that?

0:18.7

Why the hell is that right there? Of course, if you knew here,

0:22.9

I'm Lee Hammack. I'm a diagnosed narcissist. Here you give you the inside look at the mind of an abusive

0:27.6

person, right? Not just a narcissist person. It's just an abusive person, right? Because I'm in therapy for nine

0:31.8

years. But just talking about it like this. It's just vibe with me right here. Lean with me.

0:37.4

Rock with me right here. So from me. Rock with me right here.

0:39.4

So from the very first day when you met this person, when you met the love of your life, right,

0:45.0

they just decided out of nowhere just to tell you that their exes were crazy.

0:51.6

Like they told you like, you might have asked them yourself. You might have said, hey, look, why is mine like you single? Well, let me tell you this story about my crazy ex. Did my ex is the craziest person you will ever come across. Like, trust me, you never want to talk to them again. Yes, I have to talk to them because we have kids together or we have a business together or we have to be sure a dog or whatever, right? I have to still talk to them, but you don't,

1:15.6

don't ever, ever, you don't ever need to talk to them. Why is that, right? They warned you,

1:22.6

they told you, don't talk to them ever. But if you watch closely, if you just take off the rose color glasses that they gave

1:31.1

you on your first date, they don't just avoid their exes. They're not avoiding them, right? They don't

1:37.0

avoid your ex. They are aggressively gatekeeping you from ever crossing their path, even if they're

1:42.6

co-parenting, right? You might have met their kids,

1:44.7

but you don't meet the ex. And you might want to, hey, look, can I meet your ex, please? I feel like it's just like, because I'm around their kids, I should talk to them. I should be able to have a conversation with them to make sure we're on the same page. No, why would you need to do that? I can do that.

1:59.3

Let me be the bridge because no,

2:01.9

because I don't want them getting into your head

2:03.6

and saying crazy things. what you need to do that. I can do that. Let me be the bridge because no, because I don't want

2:02.5

them getting into your head and saying crazy things and trying to manipulate you like they did me.

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