Who Is Your "Ego" (It's Not You) - 9 Ego Functions

Codependent Trap Ep.5: The Discard- Why They Leave Before You Can

- Why the discard feels like being erased. - The hidden logic of pre-emptive abandonment. - Why intimacy can trigger sudden coldness. - What Vaknin means by the snapshot. - Why heartbreak can feel like withdrawal. - How hoovering starts after the fantasy collapses.

Codependency Trap ep.4: DEVALUATION

- When The Fantasy Turns Against You - What is coercive snapshotting? - How the shared fantasy turns against you - Why devaluation feels like a false trial - Why love suddenly turns cold - The crime of becoming real - When the fantasy turns against you - Why you chase the old gaze - Stop living as their edited image - podcast on apple & spotify: search 'the olne relationship podcast'

Codependency Trap ep.3: The Intermittent Reinforcement Abuse Machine

- Why the “good moments” are the real hook - The cruel psychology of relief after pain - Why leaving feels like withdrawal, not freedom - How love bombing turns into emotional gambling - The slot machine hidden inside toxic relationships - Why you keep chasing the version of them from the beginning - When affection becomes a reward pellet -The difference between love and nervous-system relief - How abuse tolerance builds without you noticing - Why the person who hurts you feels like the only cure - The trap of trying to “earn” the good version back - Why calm love can feel boring after chaos - How the relationship trains you to blame yourself - The machine that keeps codependents coming back - Why the highs feel so powerful after the lows **podcast on apple & Spotify: search 'the olne relationship podcast'

Codependency p2: LOVE-BOMBING - The Idealization Phase

- Why the “perfect beginning” of a toxic relationship can feel so real - love-bombing i.e. the idealization phase of cluster b - the psychological trap before a shared fantasy - addictive part of the idealization - why abuse survivors stay attached - where devaluation begins - reality-testing using OLNE - podcast on apple & spotify: search 'the olne relationship podcast'

Codependency ep. 1 - "Why Me" | Why You Were Chosen

- Answers the question, "Why Me" - you weren't chosen because you're weak - the narcissist does not fall in love with you - psychological scanning - love bombing - the vulnerability spot - codependents, empaths, people-pleasers - shame into self-knowledge