589: Persevering Past Paranoid Parental Persecution | Feedback Friday
Nov 19, 2021
This week delves into the emotional toll of setting boundaries with abusive parents, exploring whether cutting ties truly protects loved ones. The hosts tackle the complexities of navigating grief and dating after life changes, emphasizing the need for support and openness. They also highlight the importance of introducing new languages to children for cognitive growth and future opportunities. Listeners are encouraged to prioritize meaningful relationships and personal interests to combat anxiety and alienation.
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Handling Toxic Parents
Accept parents' behavior and protect your family.
Focus on controlling your reactions, not their actions.
insights INSIGHT
Parental Estrangement
Cutting off parents contradicts biology, showing it's a last resort.
Ignoring toxic parents is an active, not passive, protective stance.
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Inherited Paranoia
Explore inherited paranoia from parents.
Evaluate if expecting the worst influences your responses.
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You dared to set a boundary with your parents: you would only communicate with them if they were respectful to you and your family. This means zero tolerance for name-calling, swearing, threatening, or yelling at you or your husband whenever there's a disagreement. Now they've leveled false accusations against your husband for being abusive, going as far as involving the CEO of your company and the police department! Of course you've cut them off completely since then, but you're wondering: will this be enough to protect your family against them? We'll tackle this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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Cutting off your parents for their never-ending disrespect to you and your husband is the only way you can think of to protect your family against their paranoid delusions and abuse. But is it enough?
After being married for 10 years, you and your partner have come to an amicable agreement that you can no longer meet each other's emotional and romantic needs. You want to hold off on your divorce until an adoption in the works has been finalized, but until then, how do you break the news of this complicated situation to any date that could potentially become a significant other?
What's a good, useful second language for an English-speaking kid to start picking up now?
You had a challenging adolescence, and lost your youth to anxiety and depression. How can you make up for this lost time as you approach your thirties?
As a recently graduated engineer who started working at the company where you interned, you've inherited a seemingly cursed project that's been foisted upon numerous employees before you. What can you do to instill confidence in your teammates that you're the one who will finally lead this thing to the finish line?
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