Aaron Machbitz
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17,478 appearances
110 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard yesterday
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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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That's someone's actual safety.
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That's someone's actual life.
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That's someone's actual nervous system finally getting to rest.
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And so when we talk about
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no contact, we have to hold that truth first.
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Again, for some people, it is the healthiest decision they'll ever make to leave a relationship and to go no contact.
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That's very, very important to understand once we again dive deeper.
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