Excuse My Grandma

I love this podcast- I would like an “Ask Kim” segment too

I used to really love this podcast but since 2026 👎🏼. Grandma is great but Kim lost it. The most recent episode dated February 12th, Kim said “ I feel like” seven times in a 15 minute episode. 😂 Two episodes before that one she said it seven times and I turned the episode off. I didn’t even finish. Such a shame because she would boast about her education in English from an Ivy League college and always so well articulated and intelligent. It’s too bad- no longer a favorite. Pass on these two. Bye Grandma! You were great! Kim tanked.

I love grandma Gail and her advice! Listening to her reminds me of my grandma - traditional, practical, and fun.

EMG is overwhelmingly a breath of fresh air, but you really crossed a horrible line in the last episode and need to make a public apology. Kim said “it shouldn’t be confusing: if you think you’re being abused, you are.” Kim, this is judgmental, condescending, offensive and naive. I hope you are never put in the position to learn from experience, but denial is a major component of a domestic violence victim’s psychological profile. It is a crippling blindspot that exacerbates the victim’s ability to help herself. I speak from experience. My ex husband with two Ivy League degrees and a fancy finance job was involuntarily hospitalized after chronic violence toward me over a period of *years*. This is a scourge that affects all socioeconomic, generational, racial, and professional sectors. With my own Ivy league and graduate degrees, I could not see it from the inside. I am fully capable of understanding things that “should not be confusing”; you are resoundingly wrong to describe intimate partner abuse in this way. Denial is a byproduct of abuse, and this denial impairs the victim’s ability to identify abusive behavior. This is commonplace and a known complication of women in this unfortunate situation. Your comment — coupled with the exasperated tone in which you delivered it — will actively discourage survivors thinking of speaking out or leaving. Your comment belittles victims’ intelligence and works in tandem with their existing denial to minimize or dismiss the abuse, dissuading victims (already fearful of public reprobation) from reaching out. Your remark requires a public apology, not only for the victims who will be directly discouraged by your words from extracting themselves from abusive relationships, but for the follow-on damage that will occur each time a listener repeats your judgmental and inaccurate comments. Before you condemn abuse victims to being unable to asses that which “should not be confusing,” please clear up your own confusion by reading up on the role of denial in intimate partner violence. Maybe you could do a segment clearing up the misconceptions you — and no doubt others — you are laboring under.