1199: Pursuit of Happiness Vexed by a Litigious Ex | Feedback Friday

Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with Feedback Friday producer the Globetrotter, who's my fellow rope walker across this abyss of life drama, Gabriel Mizrahi. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's most fascinating people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. Our mission is to help you become a better informed, more critical thinker, and during the week we have long form conversations with a variety of amazing folks.

Mafia enforcers, drug traffickers, former jihadis, economic hitman and more. This week we had Dr. Caroline Fleck on the power of validating other people, how effective it is, how important it is, and how it can deepen your relationships with not only other people, but also yourself, and we also did a skeptical Sunday last Sunday on CBD. On Fridays, though, we share stories, take listener letters, offer advice, and go spilunking in the labyrinthine caverns of your most confusing conundra. Before we jump into our stories today, we've got some passionate takes on two letters that we aired recently, and we wanted to talk about them quickly here at the top.

Yes, one was the letter from the woman who was thinking about becoming a single mother by choice and SMBC, and her family was like, are you sure you want to do that? Do you know how hard that's gonna be? That was episode 1184. And the other was the letter from the woman in her forties, whose father, who was absent for most of her life, was basically discouraging her relationship with her sixty something year old boyfriend, who was apparently great, although he was also still cohabitating with his ex wife, which complicated the story a little bit. That was episode 1187.

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