Narcissists, Gaslighters, and Cheaters, Oh My!

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...

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 ever...

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 professi...

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 sl...

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 l...

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 patt...

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 ab...

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 re...

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....

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. S...

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...

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...

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...

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 qu...

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 h...

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...

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. Thi...

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 ed...

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...

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 listen...

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 cliffhang...

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 t...

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 expectatio...

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 sto...

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 underst...