977: Do You Strive for a Love That Can't Survive? | Feedback Friday

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Apr 12, 2024

This discussion dives into the complexities of commitment in relationships, exploring cultural expectations and personal challenges. A listener’s six-year relationship raises questions about family acceptance and emotional readiness. The hosts humorously tackle the difficulties of navigating workplace ethics in a toxic environment under the influence of the CCP. They also highlight the importance of resilience in parenting, emphasizing how to empower children to face life's challenges independently.

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INSIGHT

Resilience in Children

Resilient children handle challenges better and learn from mistakes.
Nurturing resilience involves letting kids struggle appropriately and showing them challenges are solvable.

ADVICE

Relationship Communication

Talk openly with your partner if relationship progress stalls.
Clarify your needs and encourage your partner to share their concerns.

ANECDOTE

Infidelity Revealed

A listener's boyfriend of six years avoided commitment, citing various reasons.
He was discovered cheating after the other woman contacted the listener.

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We have a follow-up from our episode 904 listener on her Persian boyfriend's hesitation to advance their six-year relationship. Welcome to Feedback Friday!

And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Gabriel Mizrahi (@GabeMizrahi) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week! If you want us to answer your question, register your feedback, or tell your story on one of our upcoming weekly Feedback Friday episodes, drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com. Now let's dive in!

On This Week's Feedback Friday:

What are the benefits of raising a resilient child? Daily Dad Ryan Holiday counts the ways.
An update from the listener who wrote in on episode 904 regarding her Persian boyfriend's reluctance to commit to the next step of their six-year relationship. (Hint: it's got very little to do with his family's acceptance of her non-Persianness.)
As a Mandarin-speaking American quickly rising within a Chinese-owned organization, you find the inevitable influence of the CCP over the fate of your company and career to be suboptimal. How do you reconcile the broader moral objections of your work with your responsibility to ensure financial stability for your family moving forward?
Getting divorced would be financially disastrous, but marriage to someone who lacks critical thinking skills, is incapable of reading the simplest of context clues, and can't come to any opinion he isn't told by his parents, church, or political movement is exhausting. What are your options?
In the event of your untimely demise, how do you keep your kids safe from your estranged, narcissistic, abusive, BPD-afflicted, manipulative, and generally toxic parents? [Thanks to trust and estate attorney and judge Jordan Richards for helping us with this one!]
Hey, bro, if you need us to hook you up with Carl's DNA-altering money pills (as mentioned on episode 941), your business may be failing for reasons completely unrelated to the ones you're imagining. But we have thoughts...
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