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

Episode 299
Not Everyone Comes Back When You Finally Realize Their Value

A single sentence went viral and exposed something many people are not prepared to face, realizing someone’s value does not guarantee their return.

This episode examines what people reveal about themselves after loss removes denial. It unpacks regret that arrives too late, the rewriting of personal narratives, the misuse of boundary language, and the uncomfortable difference between missing a person and missing what they provided. It also challenges the popular belief that awareness, apologies, or closure automatically earn second chances.

Rather than assigning blame, this conversation focuses on accountability, psychological self protection, and the stories people tell to preserve identity after relationships end. It explores why reunions often fail, why real change does not require access, and why respecting someone’s absence can be the clearest sign of growth.

This is not a motivational episode. It is a reflective examination of loss, boundaries, and consequence, delivered without moral shortcuts or emotional reassurance.

If this episode makes you uncomfortable, that discomfort is the signal. Something honest landed.

You're Probably Right Podcast.

Dating does not usually hurt people because of betrayal.
It hurts people because of soft warnings they chose to translate into hope.

In this episode of You’re Probably Right Podcast, I break down twenty harsh but necessary truths about modern dating, the kind that do not show up as big dramatic moments, but as small comments, delayed replies, vague language, and mixed signals that slowly drain your energy.

This is not motivation content.
This is clarity.

We talk about what phrases like “I’m not ready for a relationship,” “let’s just vibe,” “I need space,” and “I don’t like labels” actually mean in real life behaviour, not in fantasy. We unpack why niceness without boundaries backfires, why emotional availability is often misunderstood, why people keep others in holding patterns, and why confusion is sometimes a strategy, not an accident.

This episode is for anyone who has felt like they were trying harder than they should, analysing texts, negotiating red flags, or staying longer because things were almost good. It is for people who want honesty over comfort, and self respect over false hope.

If you have ever felt like you were giving full effort while being offered half clarity, this episode is for you.

Listen with an open mind, not to blame anyone, but to stop losing yourself in situations that were never meant to grow.

You’re probably right.

Episode 297 – How Do I Find Them?

In a world where proximity doesn’t guarantee connection, how do we actually find someone worth building with? In this solo episode, MCM breaks down the quiet realities behind modern relationships—what “high-value” really means, whether settling is weakness or wisdom, and how changing roles and income gaps are reshaping who ends up with whom.

From workplace crushes to partner standards, this is the kind of talk that might challenge your views—or help you finally make sense of them.

Real, grounded, no hype. Just a conversation that might stick with you.

Some connections never become relationships, but they still manage to take everything out of you.

This episode is a long form, story driven monologue about how certain modern connections form through repeated proximity, familiarity, and access, not clear intention or commitment, and why they so often leave one person steady and intact while the other is left depleted and confused.

This is not a conversation about villains, manipulation, or blame. It is an examination of emotional imbalance, over giving, and what happens when one person quietly becomes the stabilizer in a connection that was never designed to sustain two people equally.

I explore why intimacy can feel real but never accumulate, why generosity often backfires, why clarity never arrives in ambiguous relationships, and why common advice like just communicate or just walk away fails in proximity based situations where disappearance is not simple.

If you have ever felt drained in a situationship, taken for granted emotionally, or unsure why you were the one left holding the weight when nothing was ever defined, this episode will give language to that experience.

This is about emotional regulation in modern relationships, attachment without commitment, and the hidden cost of being the good one.

You are probably right.

There are relationship questions people do not answer out loud. Not because they are dishonest, but because the answers are uncomfortable, complicated, and would force real decisions.

This special Q and A episode is built around twenty questions that expose unhealthy attachment, mixed signals, people pleasing, and the quiet ways people shrink themselves to keep access, peace, or hope alive. These are not surface level questions. They are the ones you answer privately, when nobody is listening, and when you finally stop negotiating with yourself.

If you have ever felt stuck, undervalued, confused, or like you were walking on eggshells in a relationship, this episode helps you separate patterns from hope. It is not about blaming anyone. It is about seeing the mechanics clearly so you can stop repeating the same dynamic in a new form.

This episode is especially for people who overthink texts, replay conversations, tolerate mixed signals, or sense that something is off but keep telling themselves it will get better. The questions are designed to create clarity, not comfort.

Listen slowly. Pause when needed. Answer honestly.

You are not stuck because you are weak. You are stuck because you have been avoiding the truth.

You’re Probably Right.

Keywords:
relationship questions, unhealthy attachment, mixed signals, people pleasing, walking on eggshells, trauma bonding, anxious attachment, dating psychology, relationship patterns, self respect, emotional clarity, podcast relationships