Episode 302
The Edible Child, Omnipotence, and Why Adult Relationships Break the Way They Do

There is a reason so many adults enter relationships carrying guilt they cannot explain, responsibility they never agreed to, and fear they cannot name.

This episode explores a quiet psychological pattern that begins in childhood and silently shapes adult relationships, attraction, marriage, parenting, and emotional burnout.

The concept is called the edible child, not in a literal sense, but in a psychological one. An edible child is raised to emotionally feed a parent’s sense of meaning, control, identity, or regulation. Instead of being guided toward independence, the child becomes useful. Needed. Essential. Consumed.

In this episode, we break down how early experiences of infantile omnipotence, where a child’s needs appear to create reality, become damaging when parents cannot tolerate stepping back. When that happens, the child is not allowed to separate. Independence feels like betrayal. Boundaries feel like rejection. And love becomes tied to usefulness.

As these children grow into adults, the pattern does not disappear. It shows up in over giving, people pleasing, staying too long, regulating partners, tolerating ambiguity, and confusing closeness with commitment. Many become reliable partners who quietly carry the emotional weight of relationships until attraction collapses under responsibility.

This episode connects childhood emotional consumption to adult mating choices, marriage dynamics, parenting struggles, classroom behaviour, and why so many relationships lose desire without obvious conflict or betrayal.

You will hear why attraction fades when responsibility replaces autonomy, how parent child dynamics quietly emerge between adults, why some people feel safest only when needed, and how to break this pattern without becoming cold or detached.

This is not an episode about blaming parents or diagnosing partners. It is about understanding the blueprint you were handed and deciding whether you want to keep living inside it.

If you have ever felt responsible for everyone else’s emotional state, guilty for choosing yourself, or exhausted by relationships that rely on your self sacrifice, this episode will put language to what your body already knows.

edible child psychology, infantile omnipotence, relationship burnout, attachment patterns, people pleasing trauma, emotional over giving, adult attachment, relationship psychology podcast, childhood conditioning, emotional labour in relationships

Episode 301
The Difference Between Being Chosen and Being Kept

There is a quiet kind of heartbreak people rarely talk about.

It is not rejection.
It is not betrayal.
It is staying in someone’s life while nothing actually moves forward.

In this episode, I unpack the difference between being chosen and being kept, and why that distinction changes everything about how a relationship feels in your body, not just in your head.

Being chosen creates clarity, momentum, and emotional safety over time.
Being kept creates closeness without direction, intimacy without commitment, and hope without resolution.

Many people are not stuck because they lack self worth.
They are stuck because they confuse access with intention, proximity with commitment, and patience with love.

This monologue explores
• How being chosen shows up through behaviour, not words
• Why being kept often feels intimate but quietly destabilizing
• How inconsistency trains the nervous system to stay alert instead of at peace
• Why people keep others close without choosing them
• The psychological cost of waiting in undefined emotional space
• When loyalty turns into self abandonment
• How to tell if you are staying because of love or because of investment
• Why clarity calms the body and ambiguity keeps it anxious

This episode is not about blaming anyone.
It is about naming a pattern many people feel but struggle to articulate.

If you have ever felt close but unsure
important but not prioritized
included but not anchored

This episode will likely hit closer than you expect.

Keywords
relationships, emotional clarity, anxious attachment, avoidant behaviour, dating psychology, commitment, emotional availability, self respect, relationship patterns, modern dating, podcast on relationships

This is Episode 300 of You’re Probably Right, and it is a pause, not a celebration.

This episode is for the people who gave their love, time, energy, and loyalty, only to feel drained, overlooked, or quietly discarded. It is for anyone who stayed too long, over gave, or tried harder when the relationship was already slipping away. Not because they were weak, but because they cared.

In this monologue, MCM speaks directly to the experience of being used, emotionally neglected, or taken for granted, and the damage that does to self worth. It explores how one sided love erodes confidence, why over giving becomes a survival strategy, and how people mistake relief from loneliness for real connection.

This episode is not about blaming the other person, and it is not about self pity. It is about understanding why toxic attachments form, why hope keeps people stuck, and why walking away is sometimes the first real act of self respect.

If you have ever felt like you lost yourself trying to love someone, this episode is a reminder that your kindness was never the problem. Your capacity to love was not a flaw. The lesson is not to love less, but to love with boundaries, clarity, and self respect.

Episode 300 is about healing without bitterness, letting go without guilt, and rebuilding a sense of worth that does not depend on being chosen by someone who could not meet you where you stood.

This episode is for the overlooked.
And for the moment you decide to choose yourself.

Keywords:
heartbreak healing, being taken for granted, one sided relationships, emotional exhaustion, self worth after breakup, letting go, toxic attachment, relationship recovery, personal growth podcast, healing after loss