Narcissists, Gaslighters, and Cheaters, Oh My!
This podcast features brave individuals sharing their experiences with toxic love, including narcissists, gaslighters, and cheaters. Hosted by Behk & LAH, it offers honest, humorous, and shame-free discussions about the chaos of toxic relationships. The hosts draw from their own therapy and healing journeys to help listeners feel less alone and find their way out of difficult situations.
Episodes
Auroras & Intermissions
Hey friends — we're hitting pause for a few weeks, and we wanted to pop in before we go.LAH is deep in the final countdown to her first solo art exhibit, Auroras in Sad Prose — an immersive show that weaves together her nature-inspired artwork, poetry, and a curated playlist of music that has carried her through healing and heartbreak. It's beautiful, it's personal, and it's all hers. We could not
Mr Chaos Incarnate Continues
The system failed her. She told the truth anyway.Part II picks up with Emma making the drive back to his house — not for reconciliation, but for answers she was never going to get. She arrived to find a man who looked like a total mess, said nothing about her new car, and within minutes set a large knife in front of her on the bed.What followed was assault. Coercion under the guise of reconnection
Mr Chaos Incarnate
Three weeks. That's all it took.Emma spent five years healing after a particularly brutal relationship ended in 2018. Five years of solo travel, self-improvement, building herself back up from the inside out. By the time she met him at a tattoo shop, she was — by her own account — at a psychological peak. More extroverted than she'd ever been. Solo traveling. Thriving. Finally ready.He was stoic.
The Vortex of Solitude
Angel was raised by a woman she called the Vortex of Solitude. Someone who could walk into a room, and you could feel the darkness.She was also, in Angel's words, genuinely funny. Charismatic. Someone Angel loved — the way you love the mother you were given, even when she was the one doing the damage.Angel's story starts at the very beginning. A car accident when Angel was a year and a half that t
Audacious Villain Era
She's back — and she's healing, but she's not done. Shirley, our guest from the season two episode The Relative Truth, returns with a long-awaited update. After nine years with a man who cheated with his own cousin, Shirley has done the work: betrayal coaching, a podcast of her own, and a hard-won emotional reckoning — including one final, tearful goodbye to the house that held all of it.But
Gaslighting for God with Becky Garrison
Some people leave the church quietly. Becky Garrison stayed and took notes.A satirist, journalist, and Yale Divinity School-trained religious critic, Becky spent over a decade as Senior Contributing Editor at The Wittenburg Door — the nation's oldest, most irreverent Christian satire magazine — before the institution gave her more material than she bargained for. Her latest book, Gaslighting for G
Behk's & LAH's Cozycore Autumn: A Seasonal Special
The pumpkins are out. The candles are lit. Behk & LAH are back for their annual Cozycore Autumn episode — and this one comes with gifts. 🎃🕯️In this year's cozy special, we're slowing all the way down. Fuzzy socks, fall playlists, self-care rituals, and the kind of warm conversation that feels like a blanket you didn't know you needed. We're also sharing some personal updates, pulling back the
REPLAY: Behk & LAH's Spooky Spectacular! Halloween Edition
We're taking a little detour from the narcissists this week. Consider it a palate cleanser. 🎃In this special Halloween edition, Behk & LAH are setting the toxic relationships aside for one episode to bring you all the spooky autumn energy you didn't know you needed. Favorite fall rituals, cozy simmer pots, pumpkin everything — and then things get a little darker. Personal ghost stories that wi
Written in the Cards: Emily's Story Part Three
This is the final chapter of Emily's story. It is not a sad ending.In this episode, Emily brings us into the life she has built on the other side of everything — a partner who shows up with honesty and imperfection and genuine commitment, a relationship built on open communication and real intimacy, and, for the first time in a long time, the feeling of being truly safe.She also talks about the te
Written in the Cards: Emily's Story Part Two
Emily thought her second marriage was a fresh start. It was not.In this chapter of Emily's story, she takes us into the betrayal she never saw coming — a husband living a secret life as a sex addict who had been using her photos to catfish other men online. Her image. Her face. Her identity — weaponized without her knowledge or consent.This is the kind of violation that doesn't just break trust. I
Written in the Cards: Emily's Story Part One
Emily has stage 4 terminal cancer. Emily has stage 4 terminal cancer. When Behk heard her story, she knew it needed to be told. Emily said yes.This is the beginning of something different. Over the coming episodes, we'll be following Emily through the defining chapters of her life — her military service, the PTSD that followed, the toxic relationships that tested everything she thought she knew ab
Trauma Dick
Annie looked like she had it all together. She was terrified someone would find out she didn't.In this episode, Annie opens up about the relationship that found her in the middle of rediscovering herself — healing her faith, exploring her identity, cautiously stepping back into dating. The man she met seemed exciting. He became a nightmare. And in a small town where everyone knows Annie's name, he
The Ticking Love Bomb
He was charming, intense, and exactly what Lauren needed during the loneliness of a pandemic. He was also on his eighth marriage when they met.In this episode, Lauren opens up about the two years she spent inside a relationship that moved fast, felt all-consuming, and slowly revealed itself to be something she needed to survive rather than enjoy. Love bombing that flipped to gaslighting. Emotional
When the Courts Fail Survivors with Professor Dale Margolin Cecka
The legal system is supposed to protect survivors. Professor Dale Margolin Cecka is here to talk about why it often doesn't.In this episode, Behk & LAH sit down with Professor Cecka — Director of the Family Violence Litigation Clinic at Albany Law School — for one of the most important conversations this podcast has ever had. She brings decades of legal expertise to the questions survivors are
Crashed & Burned to Learn with Bryan Power
Bryan almost lost his marriage. He's here to tell you what saved it.In this episode, Behk & LAH sit down with Bryan Power for a conversation that doesn't happen enough on podcasts like this one — a man who looked at his own behavior honestly, traced it back to where it came from, and did something about it.Bryan opens up about the unresolved childhood trauma that quietly followed him into his
Crossed Lines and Covert Mines
Amie is a therapist. She still didn't see it coming.In this episode, Amie Schulz sits down with Behk & LAH to share something that takes real courage to say out loud — she got caught in an emotional affair with a coworker who turned out to be a covert narcissist. What started as a blurred boundary became a full campaign of manipulation, professional sabotage, and a smear operation designed to
Love Bombs and Lies
Kris survived a 17-year marriage. Then she fell in love again — and somehow that was harder.In this episode, Kris opens up about the relationship that found her on the other side of a long marriage and promised everything she'd been missing. The whirlwind. The love bombing. The engagement ring. The hope she kept choosing even as the messages piled up, each one revealing a little more of the double
Co-Parenting Trapped by Abuse Part Two
Veronika is still in the courtroom. She's also building something for everyone who comes after her.In part two, we pick back up with Veronika — still fighting, still standing, and somewhere in the middle of one of the most exhausting battles a person can face. Her ex hasn't stopped. The legal abuse continues. And Veronika has decided that if the system won't protect survivors, she'll build somethi
Co-Parenting Trapped by Abuse Part One
Veronika left. He just found a new way to keep hurting her.In this episode, Behk & LAH share the story of Veronika — one of LAH's friends — a woman who has spent her life navigating high-conflict men, starting with an emotionally abusive father and ending up in a relationship that became something far darker. She was drugged. She was raped. She built a life around her three children anyway.And
When Presence Feels Like Absence
Penny's grandfather had two families. He called the second one "the others." That tells you everything you need to know about where this story begins.In this episode, Penny takes us through a family legacy that was broken long before she arrived — a grandfather whose cruelty shaped a father who never learned how to show up, and a daughter who grew up feeling the very specific ache of being emotion
Miss Zero Accountability
Cleo lost her sister-in-law — the woman who had become one of the most important people in her life. And then someone new arrived. And things got worse.In this episode, Cleo opens up about grief, generational trauma, and what happens when a toxic person enters a family that is already broken open by loss. The manipulation. The fractured relationships. The helplessness of watching someone you love
A Year Later: Buddy on Healing After Fast Heartbreak
Buddy is back. And he is doing the work.A year ago, Buddy sat down with us fresh out of a whirlwind marriage that unraveled in ways nobody saw coming. Today he's back — lighter, clearer, and with the kind of hard-earned perspective that only comes from actually doing the hard things instead of just talking about them.In this episode, Buddy opens up about what healing has genuinely looked like over
REPLAY: Fast Love, Fast Heartbreak Part Two
We told you part two was a lot. We meant it.In the conclusion of Buddy's story, things escalate in a direction nobody saw coming — including a stint in jail that changed everything. Again. Buddy takes us through the aftermath, the turmoil, and ultimately the clarity that only comes after you've been through something truly unhinged.Stay until the end. Buddy has something to say to the men listenin
REPLAY: Fast Love, Fast Heartbreak Part One
Four months of long distance. One whirlwind proposal. What could go wrong?In part one of Buddy's story, he takes us through the romance that felt like fate and the marriage that revealed itself to be something far more complicated. Severe bipolar disorder. Alcoholism. And a series of red flags that made perfect sense in hindsight and absolutely none in the moment.We're leaving you on a cliffhanger
The Return of the Dichotomy Diaries with Amanda Arnier
Amanda Arnier is back. And she has been busy.When Amanda last joined us, she was in the middle of telling one of the most unhinged true stories we've ever heard on this show — a husband who presented himself to the world as a devout, family-first Christian man while secretly maintaining a gambling addiction, multiple affairs, secret lives, and a career in male escorting. The Dichotomy Diaries went
The Breaking Point
In this episode, Grace opens up about surviving an emotionally and psychologically abusive marriage — and what happened when her husband's diagnosis didn't soften him, it revealed him. While Grace and her son needed support most, he chose abandonment. And Grace's son was fighting his own battle at the same time — a dangerous eating disorder that nearly took his life, without a father willing to sh
EXPERT POV: Dissolving Emotional + Inner Child Trauma with Jen Peters
Jen Peters has been through things that would break most people. She didn't break. She wrote a book about it.In this episode, Behk & LAH sit down with Jen — author of Coming Home: The Path to Healing Your Inner Child — to talk about the life that led to her memoir. An alcoholic, abusive father. A gang rape in her teenage years. A toxic, codependent marriage that made complete sense given every
International Man of Toxicity
Sarah thought she had found her person. He was also someone else's person. And someone else's. And someone else's — across multiple countries.In this episode, Behk & LAH welcome Sarah, joining us all the way from Geneva, Switzerland, with a story that is equal parts heartbreaking and jaw-dropping. Her dream man — a charming, successful financier — turned out to be a serial cheater, a professio
Surviving the Toxic Twenties
He called himself a good Christian guy. Leecy called it what it was — eventually.In this episode, Leecy opens up about the relationship that consumed most of her twenties — the gaslighting, the emotional manipulation, the drinking, the physical assault by his friend, and the relentless weight of being made to feel responsible for all of it. She was working full-time, running the household, and slo
Fearlessly Unlearning a Toxic Childhood
Jessica found out at 10 years old that the man abusing her was her biological father. Then she was forced to go live with him.In this episode, Jessica opens up about a childhood that required her to grow up faster than any child should — caring for her younger siblings, surviving verbal and mental abuse, and navigating a home shaped by alcoholism and chaos. Her mother's substance abuse disorder le
Slaying Demons with Kim Davis
Kim Davis didn't just survive a toxic childhood — she caught herself repeating it. And then she stopped.In this episode, Behk & LAH sit down with Kim, co-host of Slaycation, to talk about growing up with an abusive, tyrannical father and what that quietly taught her about relationships before she was old enough to question it. Kim is refreshingly honest about the ways she mirrored those patter
50 Shades of D&D
Charlotte found a community she loved. Then the man running it decided she owed him a back rub.In this episode, Charlotte opens up about what happened when she stood up for herself in a local gaming community — and how quickly the people who should have had her back disappeared. The store owner who crossed the line faced no consequences. Charlotte got banned. And when she left an honest review abo
Unmasking Covert Narcissists
Michelle learned what love looked like from a covert narcissist. Then she married one. She didn't make that connection for a long time — and that's exactly how it works.In this episode, Michelle opens up about the childhood that quietly set the template and the marriage that followed the blueprint to the letter. She carried everything. She sought therapy. She did the work. And then one day she rec
Game Over, Player One
Alice spent her childhood feeling invisible. Then she married someone who made sure she stayed that way.In this episode, Alice opens up about growing up in a family where her needs came second, and how that quietly shaped the relationship she chose as an adult. She met him online — in a gaming world that felt like an escape — and spent nine years holding everything together while he held nothing.
Nice Guy, Big Problem
Everyone loved Pitre. That was part of the problem.In this episode, Rena takes us through the relationship that looked perfect from every angle except the one that mattered — behind closed doors. Pitre was charming, affectionate, and beloved by everyone in Rena's life. He was also a severe alcoholic who lied, mismanaged their finances, and slowly dismantled Rena's trust one deception at a time.She
Mr Emotionally Unavailable
We're back. And we brought Katie.In this season three opener, Behk & LAH sit down with Katie — a woman who found herself living a painful variation of the same relationship twice. First, a marriage to a man who was emotionally absent, unfaithful, and couldn't even show up for the birth of their third child. Then, a post-divorce relationship that promised something different and delivered more
DJ Holy High Horse
This is the one Behk has been working up to all season.In the Season Two finale, Behk sits down with her best friend to share the story that started everything — the relationship that, at 15 years old, introduced her to what a narcissist actually looks like. He was 21. They met online. And what he did to Behk didn't stop with her.This episode covers decades of ripple effects, a recent revelation a
Major Mama's Boy Part Two
Phone records don't lie. Neither do bank statements. Tom did both.In part two, Emily's story reaches its breaking point — the discovery of her husband's infidelity, the moment the fog finally lifted, and the decision that changed everything. What followed wasn't easy. But for the first time in a long time, Emily wasn't doing it alone. Her family showed up. Her friends showed up. And Emily showed u
Major Mama's Boy Part One
Emily was 22 when she met him. She packed up her life and moved across the country for a fresh start. What she got instead was him — and his mother.In part one of Emily's story, she takes us back to the beginning — the early warning signs she noticed but couldn't quite name, a mother-in-law who treated her grown son like a possession and everyone else like a threat, and the family history that qui
Kiss Kiss Dang Dang
Steven's love story started at an after-hours club in Nashville called Kiss. It did not end like a fairy tale.In this episode, Steven opens up about the relationship that kept him blinded by love long after the evidence was impossible to ignore — years of infidelity, meth addiction, gaslighting, and domestic abuse, all wrapped up in something that once felt like everything he'd ever wanted.But her
Behk & LAH's Spooky Spectacular! Halloween Edition
We're taking a little detour from the narcissists this week. Consider it a palate cleanser. 🎃In this special Halloween edition, Behk & LAH are setting the toxic relationships aside for one episode to bring you all the spooky autumn energy you didn't know you needed. Favorite fall rituals, cozy simmer pots, pumpkin everything — and then things get a little darker. Personal ghost stories that wi
Mr Zero Acountability
Bethanie was raising twin boys, running the entire household, and being accused of cheating — all while her partner retreated to his own room like a sulking teenager who also happened to be controlling her life.In this episode, Bethanie opens up about the gaslighting, the impossible expectations, and the suffocating weight of being held to a standard her partner never once applied to himself. This
Trapped in Mis-souri and Abuse
Sarah survived cancer. And then she met Bud.In this episode, Sarah opens up about what came after the diagnosis, the treatment, and the recovery — when she was at her most vulnerable and a man named Bud decided that was the right time to show her who he really was. Alcoholic. Emotionally abusive. Physically abusive. And completely unworthy of the woman who had just fought her way back from the edg
EXPERT POV: Untangling the Mindf*ck of Narcissistic Relationships with Bre Wolta
We brought in an expert. And not just any expert — someone who lived it first.In this special episode, Behk & LAH sit down with Bre Wolta — founder of Lucid Living, relationship clarity coach, and host of Heartbreak to Wholeness: Untangle the Mindf*ck of Narcissistic Relationships. Bre didn't just study narcissistic abuse. She survived it, rebuilt from it, and turned it into a life's mission h
Fast Love, Fast Heartbreak Part Two
We told you part two was a lot. We meant it.In the conclusion of Buddy's story, things escalate in a direction nobody saw coming — including a stint in jail that changed everything. Again. Buddy takes us through the aftermath, the turmoil, and ultimately the clarity that only comes after you've been through something truly unhinged.Stay until the end. Buddy has something to say to the men listenin
Fast Love, Fast Heartbreak Part One
Four months of long distance. One whirlwind proposal. What could go wrong?In part one of Buddy's story, he takes us through the romance that felt like fate and the marriage that revealed itself to be something far more complicated. Severe bipolar disorder. Alcoholism. And a series of red flags that made perfect sense in hindsight and absolutely none in the moment.We're leaving you on a cliffhanger
From the Mouths of Babes: A Child's Perspective on Relationships
We brought in our most important guest yet — Behk's 11-year-old daughter. And honestly? She might be the wisest one in the room.In this special kid-friendly episode, LAH sits down with Behk's daughter for a conversation about relationships, boundaries, consent, red flags, and the absolute drama of the 5th grade dance where basically everyone ended up crying over a boy. She has thoughts. Many of th
Young Love Lost in a Mean Girl Haze
Charlie had a wife, a friend group, and a lifestyle that looked great from the outside. None of it was working.In this episode, Charlie opens up about a marriage that started in their twenties and slowly drifted into two people growing in completely opposite directions — and a friend group straight out of Mean Girls who made everything worse. She was working overtime to meet everyone's expectation
Codependency is a Hell of a Drug Part Two
LAH is back. And this is the harder part.In part two, LAH picks up where she left off — past year one and deep into the years that were harder to survive and harder to talk about. The financial wreckage. The sexual coercion. The toxic family dynamics that made leaving feel impossible. The moments she thought things might actually be okay, and what happened after.This is the episode where LAH stopp
Codependency is a Hell of a Drug Part One
This time, it's LAH in the hot seat.In part one of this two-part episode, co-host LAH opens up to Behk about her own story — the one she's been holding while helping everyone else tell theirs. She takes us back to the childhood experiences that quietly laid the groundwork for an eight-year codependent relationship with an addict. The kind of relationship that makes complete sense when you understa
The Greatest Showman
A lesbian, a gay guy, and a witch walk into a podcast. Yes, really.In this episode, Behk & LAH welcome one of their oldest and dearest friends — John — for a conversation that is equal parts hilarious, heartfelt, and genuinely eye-opening. John opens up about his toxic relationship with who he calls "the greatest showman" — a successful, influential partner in the theater world whose charm cam
The Dichotomy Diaries with Amanda Arnier
Two podcasts. One very illuminating conversation.In this special collaboration episode, Behk & LAH sit down with Amanda Arnier — host of The Dichotomy Diaries — and things get deep fast. Together they unpack the emotional architecture of toxic relationships: how trust works, why we attach the way we do, what narcissism actually looks like up close, and why telling our stories out loud is one o
The Relative Truth
Eight years. One man. So many secrets.Shirley thought she had found her person. Turns out her person had found quite a few other people too — including, somehow, his first cousin. As the layers of his infidelity peeled back one by one, what emerged wasn't just cheating. It was a carefully maintained double life that Shirley never saw coming.This one is about betrayal in its most audacious form — a
Mr Audacity
Jodi had known John for five years. She thought that meant she knew him. She didn't.When John moved in, everything unraveled — fast. Within ten months, he had manipulated her into addiction, turned her home into a place police visited regularly, ignored every protective order, and drained her of everything she had. Ten months. Her sons knew something was wrong before she could even name it.Jodi is
Unraveling Family Toxicity Part Three
Sarah has already survived her father, her ex-husband, and state custody. In part three, we get to her mother.In this episode, Sarah opens up about the parent who was supposed to be her safe place — and wasn't. A mother who withheld love, a racist stepfather, and the very specific pain of watching that hatred directed at Sarah's own partners and children. This isn't just generational trauma. This
Unraveling Family Toxicity Part Two
After everything Sarah survived in part one, she found William. He seemed stable. He was not.In part two, Sarah takes us into her 14-year marriage to a man who used religion as a weapon and control as a love language. Every aspect of her life — who she was, what she did, how she thought — was slowly absorbed into what William needed her to be. It took 14 years to find the door. She walked through
Unraveling Family Toxicity Part One
Sarah's father made her feel unwanted. Her mother made her someone else's problem. And that was just the beginning.In part one of Sarah's story, she takes us back to a childhood defined by neglect, rejection, and the kind of instability no child should ever have to navigate. From an unloving father to a mother who ultimately chose herself, Sarah ended up in state custody — and things didn't get sa
Medical Gaslighting
Amanda went to the doctors for help. They looked at her past, her weight, and her insurance status — and decided she wasn't worth the trouble.In this episode, Amanda opens up about years of being dismissed, minimized, and told her condition was simply too expensive to treat. As someone who has also worked inside the healthcare system, she knows exactly how it works — and exactly how it fails the p
The Hot Guy from High School
He was the hot guy from high school. Heather slid into his DMs. It went badly.In this episode, Heather opens up about the relationship that started with excitement and ended with her in therapy — not to fix him, but to figure out why she kept questioning her own sanity instead of his behavior. What looked like a second-chance romance revealed itself to be a masterclass in control, belittlement, an
Escaping the Hobosexual Trap
Melanie had a good heart, a good home, and a man named James who saw both as an opportunity.In this episode, Melanie takes us through the relationship that started on a dating app and ended with her finally — finally — going no contact. James moved in within a year, brought his kids, and proceeded to contribute absolutely nothing. No money. No help. No accountability. Just alcoholism, narcissism,
Covertly Yours, Dick the Charmer
Jena escaped a cult. And then she married Dick.In part two of Jena's story, we pick up where we left off — with a woman who had already survived the unsurvivable, finally feeling like she'd found something safe. Dick seemed like everything she needed: comforting, strong, gentle. It took time for the mask to slip. It always does.What followed was a different kind of control — quieter than the cult,
Abusive Culty Toxicity
Jena didn't just survive a toxic relationship. She survived an entire world built around one.In this episode, Jena takes us inside the cult she grew up in — a rigid, controlling religious community that started in Southern California and convinced over 400 members to pack up their lives and relocate to White House, Tennessee. Behind the doctrine of perfection and blind obedience was something far
Breaking Generational Cycles
Some cycles don't break on their own. Stephanie decided she would be the one to break hers.In this episode, Stephanie opens up about growing up in the shadow of her parents' own unhealed trauma — and how that pain trickled down into her relationship with her sister, her sense of self, and everything she swore she'd do differently. This is a story about what it looks like to consciously choose a di
The Parasite of Anywhereville
Seven years. One man who would. not. leave.In this episode, Cheryle introduces us to Xanax Chad — a man who showed up in her life, made himself completely at home, and treated every attempt she made to get him out like a personal challenge. What started as a situationship turned into seven years of emotional drain, unkindness, and the slow, exhausting work of trying to reclaim her own life from so
Behk & LAH Give Thanks
Hey NGC family — it's Behk & LAH, and we have some news.We're taking a little holiday hiatus to recharge, eat too much, hug our people, and collect even more unhinged stories to bring back to you in January. Because trust us — what's coming in the new year is going to make you gasp, cackle, and question everything.We cannot say thank you enough. Your messages, your reviews, your own stories sh
Unexpected Validation and Hope
Nancy grew up with a toxic mother and lost her father to suicide. She built a beautiful life anyway.In this episode, Nancy takes us through the kind of childhood that leaves marks — and the long, nonlinear journey of deciding those marks don't get to be the whole story. She talks about setting boundaries with her mother, finding unexpected light in unexpected places, and the moments of validation
Unbreaking Bad – Bred from Toxicity
Brandy grew up with a narcissistic, abusive father. She hit rock bottom. She went to prison. And then — somehow — that's where her healing began.In this episode, Brandy sits down with us to talk about the upbringing that shaped her, the breaking point that changed everything, and what she discovered about herself behind bars that she couldn't find anywhere else. What could have been the end of her
Doctor Feelbad
Aleah served her country. Then she spent six years begging doctors to believe her.In this episode, Aleah opens up about her battle with alpha-gal — a condition that was living inside her body long before anyone in a white coat would take her seriously. Dismissed, minimized, and sent home with explanations that never quite fit, she kept pushing anyway. What she went through is a story about medical
The Definition of a Bad Guy
Bethany went on a date. She had to escape from his house.In this episode, Bethany sits down with us to talk about the night a potential romantic interest revealed himself to be something far darker — and how she got out. What followed wasn't just recovery from one terrifying night. It was years of rebuilding trust, navigating the lasting impact of trauma, and finding her way back to herself throug
Sheila Unmasked
Kate was a stunning, brilliant, and magnetic Sheila from Australia. She was also a narcissist — and Jessica didn't find that out until it was almost too late.In this episode, Jessica opens up about the whirlwind romance that felt like fate and the marriage that slowly revealed itself to be something else entirely. When the COVID lockdown stripped away every distraction, there was nowhere left to h
Sweet Peaches, Toxic Mama
Maya spent decades living in the shadow of her narcissistic mother. It wasn't until her 40s that she finally stepped out of it.In this episode, Maya opens up about growing up with a mother whose narcissism quietly dismantled her self-worth, and what it took to finally seek therapy and start putting herself back together. But this isn't just a story about what broke her — it's about everything she
One Rotten Apple
Nicole and A built something beautiful — a community for women to connect, support each other, and live a little healthier in the deep-fried south. Good intentions, good people, good vibes.And then one person decided to burn it down.In this episode, the two of them sit down with us to talk about what happens when a toxic individual infiltrates a space built entirely on trust — the warning signs th
Holy Toxic Mama!
Lydia asked for help. Nobody came.In this episode, Lydia shares what it was like to grow up in a home where verbal, physical, and sexual abuse lived behind closed doors — and where the faith community that was supposed to protect her looked the other way instead. This is a story about survival in the most literal sense, and what it takes to carry something that heavy before you finally find a way
Codependent Confessions of a Polyamorous Heart
Amanda isn't here to play the victim. She's here to tell the whole truth — including the parts that don't make her look good.In this episode, Amanda opens up about navigating polyamorous relationships, three very different situations with three very different men, and the patterns she didn't see in herself until the damage was already done. What makes Amanda's story stand out isn't just what happe
Assholery
Sheena's back — and this time it's not funny.In this episode, she opens up about Matt. The on-again, off-again relationship that kept pulling her back in, the toxicity that escalated with every cycle, and the moment she realized that if she didn't get out, it was only going to be a matter of time before it turned physical.Sheena got out. This is how she did it.If you're in a relationship that keep
Okay, Nope.
Sheena has been on the apps. Sheena has stories.In this episode, she sits down with us to run through her greatest hits of online dating — and if you've spent any time swiping, you already know exactly the kind of "fun" we're talking about. The unhinged openers. The guys who looked nothing like their photos. The ones who somehow got worse the longer you talked to them.But Sheena isn't just here to
Monster-in-Law
Not every toxic relationship is a romantic one.In this episode, Alex opens up about navigating life with an overbearing mother-in-law who has made it her mission to be everywhere, in everything, and involved in every decision that isn't hers to make. The good news? Alex's husband isn't just a bystander — he's fully in her corner. The two of them are figuring out together how to hold the line witho
Adventures of Voldemort, Chuck Roast, & Kitchen Shitter
You met Fred in part one. Now it's Roxy's turn — and she came prepared.In part two, Roxy introduces us to three exes so spectacularly toxic they each earned their own nickname: Lord Voldemort, Chuck Roast the hobo sexual, and Damien the kitchen shitter. Yes, you read that correctly. Yes, we are going to talk about all of it.This one runs long — but Fred and Roxy's comedic banter makes every minute
Lesbians Call It Uhauling
Fred and Roxy have a story. It is a lot.In part one, Fred takes us back to the beginning — a relationship that went from zero to married before anyone stopped to ask the right questions. When you rush in that fast, you don't fall in love so much as you fall into something. And what Fred fell into with Farrah? Well. You're going to want to buckle up.Part two is coming. Trust us, you'll need it.Narc
Let That Shit Burn
Kate didn't know Justin was using meth. And then — slowly, then all at once — she did.In this episode, Kate takes us through the relationship that unraveled in real time as addiction took the wheel. What she thought she was seeing and what was actually happening were two very different things. And once the curtain came back? It got real weird, real fast.This one will have your jaw on the floor.Nar
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