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1136: Marriage on Skids If You Can't Agree on Kids? | Feedback Friday

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Jordan Harbinger

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4.8 • 12.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

You yearn for motherhood, but your husband's always made it apparent that he doesn't want to be a parent. Can your marriage survive? It's Feedback Friday!

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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 [email protected]. Now let's dive in!

On This Week's Feedback Friday:

  • You've built a decade of adventure with someone who made his childless intentions clear from day one, hoping he'd change his mind over time. At 32, your heart yearns for the pitter-patter of little feet, but your husband remains firm in preserving the kid-free status quo. Can (and should) your marriage survive the resentment one of you will feel depending on whatever happens next?
  • Your sister's mother-in-law inherited $500,000 in debt after her husband died, just weeks after losing her brother. Now she's leaning heavily on your brother-in-law to handle this mess and might flee the country. How entangled should you get in this financial and emotional hurricane?
  • You're a millennial dad who grew up with uncensored internet access and saw things you shouldn't have as a kid. Now you have a six-year-old daughter of your own, and you're determined to protect her in an increasingly complicated digital landscape. What tools and strategies can keep her safe without fearmongering?
  • You're a professional bird catcher driving 50,000 miles yearly with half the standard mileage reimbursement, no holiday pay, no overtime, and you don't get paid if another bird enters a store within 48 hours after you've removed one. Your employer actively prevents employees from communicating. What recourse do you have?
  • Recommendation of the Week: The Ikigai vitamin case
  • You've started dating a kind, funny guy who makes you feel comfortable in your own skin — but he doesn't brush his teeth regularly, needs to be "pushed in the right direction," and seems more concerned about you liking him than getting to know you. Is this mothering dynamic worth working through?
  • Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at [email protected]!
  • Connect with Jordan on Twitter at @JordanHarbinger and Instagram at @jordanharbinger.
  • Connect with Gabriel on Twitter at @GabeMizrahi and Instagram @gabrielmizrahi.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with Feedback

0:08.0

Friday producer, the complimentary cucumber and strawberry flavored ice water keeping you cool in this

0:12.8

boot camp of life advice, Gabriel Mizrahi. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories,

0:18.6

secrets and skills are 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

0:26.2

you. I meant like a fitness boot camp. You know, like, you're in there about to vomit and you're like,

0:29.5

I need some water and they only have this weird concoction in the back of the room in that little

0:33.6

cooler thing. Anyway, 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

0:41.5

of amazing folks, former jihadis, drug traffickers, Fortune 500 CEOs, what's the difference?

0:46.6

Rocket scientists, four-star generals, investigative journalists. On Fridays, though, we share stories,

0:51.4

take listener letters, offer advice, and generally offer new

0:54.6

hot tics on age-old themes. Before we dive in, I had a little insight this week, I suppose you could

1:01.1

call it. I wanted to share it with you guys. So we all know that having goals is important, right?

1:06.7

That's something you learn probably in college or whatever high school now. Goals are powerful.

1:10.2

Goals can be really helpful.

1:12.0

But I've always been more interested in how you turn an abstract goal into reality.

1:18.1

Because a goal is essentially it's a vague aspiration, right?

1:21.1

It's just an idea.

1:22.0

It can be a very powerful idea.

1:24.1

All change and ambition starts with that idea.

1:26.6

But the reason so many people never

1:28.3

achieve their goals is that they remain just that goals. If you ever achieve something,

1:33.7

it's because you've woven that goal into your life in some way, because you're in a relationship

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