Aaron Machbitz
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17,365 appearances
109 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard today
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Some relationships are abusive, and walking away can save your life.
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Literally, in some cases.
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This is an important truth to understand as we get deeper into this episode.
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On the other side,
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There's a growing chorus of therapists and honestly just regular people asking a harder question.
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Has therapy speak or therapy language gotten so popular that we're using it to dodge relationships that just require hard conversations instead of hard exits?
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I don't think this is a simple answer.
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I think it's a real sort of uh I think there's real tension here.
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So in this episode, I'm gonna try and actually go there and walk.
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this sort of tightrope with this question.
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So first
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Let's steal man the argument because it deserves it.
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For a long time, decades honestly, the cultural default was family is family, you tolerate it.
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People stayed in relationships with genuinely abusive parents, manipulative siblings, controlling partners, um, you know, because walking away felt shameful, almost un-American, right?
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Whatever sort of your cultural version of that guilt is, you felt it and it was very hard to walk away because of that, because of that guilt, because of that shame, because
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So the boundaries movement then push back on that hard.
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And for a lot of people, it was the first permission they'd ever gotten to say, this relationship is actually hurting me, and I don't have to keep choosing it.
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Very, very powerful.
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That's not nothing.
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That's huge.
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