Why Do Your Friends Believe the Person Who Abused You? [Episode 372]
March 24, 2026
What happens when seeing your ex derails all your progress? And why do your friends think he’s such a great guy when you know the truth?
What happens when seeing your ex derails all your progress? And why do your friends think he’s such a great guy when you know the truth?
In this episode we tackle three questions: What happens when the abuser is the one who leaves? How do you live with the fear of post-separation or post-divorce revenge? And what do you do when your friends just don’t get it?
Let’s talk about everyone’s favorite topic: death and disaster! Kidding. Kind of.
In this episode, I sat down with Leah Hadley (who has so many professional credits after her name, that I’ll just let you scroll down to see all of them. Trust me. She’s qualified.) to tackle the post-divorce brain bender that is estate planning and insurance.
If you’ve ever wanted to scream into the void because you don’t know what kind of health insurance to get or who should get your vintage Corelle dishes when you die, this episode is for you.
Because as Leah and I discussed, doing nothing is still doing something. But is it really what you WANT to do?
In Episode 369 of the Flying Free Podcast, you’ll learn a term that’s more accurate than “narcissistic abuse,” and it’s actually being recognized in courts of law. This is part four of The Narcissism Trap Series, and it shifts everything from trying to diagnose your partner to recognizing what’s really happening to you.
If you’ve been stuck wondering whether he meets the clinical criteria for narcissism or whether therapy could change him, this episode will free you from that trap. Natalie breaks down coercive control—what sociologist Evan Stark calls a “liberty crime”—and why understanding this pattern matters more than any personality disorder diagnosis ever could.
In this third episode of The Narcissism Trap series, we shift from personal validation to legal strategy, exploring why the very word that brought you clarity could be the thing that sinks your court case. We’ll look at how judges actually view labels like “narcissist” and why focusing on clinical diagnoses can unintentionally dilute accountability and hand a “gift” to your ex’s legal team.
In this second episode of The Narcissism Trap series, we open up the DSM-5 and walk through the actual clinical criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder but with a crucial twist.