Ep 11: Why You Keep Attracting Assholes - It's Not Fate - It's Projection (Freud Made Me Do It)

Ever been blamed for something that felt... oddly specific?

Welcome to projection — the psychological pastime where someone hands you their emotional baggage and then gets mad when you don’t carry it with a smile. In this episode, we dive deep (and a little sarcastically) into how projection hijacks your relationships, distorts reality, and makes you think your date is your dad.

We’ll cover:

• What projection really is (spoiler: it’s not intuition)

• Why people hand you their wounds with a bow on top

• How to stop playing the villain in someone else’s therapy story

• Because when you stop accepting parcels that aren’t yours, your whole life gets lighter.

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