Summary
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Jordan Harbinger and Gabriel Mizrahi tackle complex relationship and family dynamics in this Feedback Friday episode. Topics include navigating a partner's mental health crisis possibly linked to military drug trials, deciding when to leave a long-term relationship without legal protections, helping a mother-in-law struggling with hoarding behavior, and a positive update on resolving dog custody with an ex-partner. The episode opens with Gabe broadcasting from rural Spain at a no-running-water ranch, setting a characteristically off-beat tone.
Gabe's Spanish Ranch Adventure with No Running Water
Gabriel Mizrahi broadcasts from rural Spain, about 90 minutes outside Madrid, staying at his friend Ada's brother's eco-friendly ranch. The house is built using the 'superadobe' technique with earth-filled bags and has solar panels and a pool, but no running water. Water comes from a well and must be carried in buckets for all household needs. The property features white horses that act like dogs, cows on the hillside, and wild boar that the brother hunts with a bow and arrow. Despite the rustic conditions, Gabe embraces the experience as part of his nomadic lifestyle.
- Staying at a ranch built using superadobe technique - earth-filled bags stacked in layers bound with barbed wire
- House has solar panels and a pool but no running water - must use buckets from a well
- Property includes friendly white horses, cows, and wild boar hunted with bow and arrow
- Hosting 10-12 people at a house with no plumbing and bucket toilets
" I feel like I'm only getting old enough now for this shit, which weirdly feels like getting younger. "
Military Trauma, PTSD, and Protecting Your Family
A woman writes in about her husband of 19 years who participated in an Australian Army mefloquine trial and later developed severe PTSD and mental health issues. After stopping his medication, he experienced a crisis involving spending $60,000 on domain names and now exhibits extreme distrust of institutions, constant anger, and conspiracy-minded thinking that dominates family life. She's torn between compassion for his trauma and protecting herself and their two young sons from an increasingly unstable home environment.
- Husband participated in Australian Army mefloquine drug trial which has been linked to psychiatric side effects and PTSD-like symptoms
- After stopping medication, he spent $60,000 Australian dollars on domain names during a mental health crisis
- He's become intensely anti-institutional, ranting about government, police, pharmaceutical companies, and other institutions at nearly every interaction
- The behavior is driving away family and friends, preventing grandchildren from visiting
- She worries about what example this sets for their 11 and 13-year-old sons
" How do you know when compassion becomes self-sacrifice? How do you balance supporting someone with significant trauma while also protecting yourself and your children? "
" His distrust is not the problem. The problem is that the distrust has become the fulcrum of this guy's entire personality slash life on top of what sounds like either mania and or psychosis. "
" Your job is not to decide whether his worldview is correct. It's to decide whether his worldview and the way he identifies with it, the way he acts on it, she has to decide whether that is safe for her and her children. "
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