# Love by Committee: When Friends, Family, Exes and Social Media Control Your Relationship Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/you-re-probably-right-7050884/love-by-committee-when-friends-family-exes-and-social-media-control-your-relationship Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/you-re-probably-right-7050884/love-by-committee-when-friends-family-exes-and-social-media-control-your-relationship.md Podcast: [You’re Probably Right](https://stenobird.com/podcast/you-re-probably-right-7050884) Published: 2026-07-12T03:21:55+00:00 Episode link: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/love-by-committee-when-friends-family-exes-and-social-media-control-your-relationship--72935174 Audio file: https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72935174/427790635_44100_2_ac1a36301c81f.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/you-re-probably-right-7050884/episodes/love-by-committee-when-friends-family-exes-and-social-media-control-your-relationship Duration seconds: 3623 ## Resource How many people get a vote in your relationship? In Episode 359, MCM examines how friends, family, exes, coworkers, group chats and social media can influence private relationship decisions, damage trust and make reconciliation more difficult.This episode explores relationship interference, unwanted advice, couple communication, emotional boundaries, privacy versus secrecy, family influence and the danger of discussing your partner with everyone except your partner. When outside opinions become louder than the two people involved, is the relationship still yours?Listen to You’re Probably Right Podcast and ask yourself one question: If everyone else became quiet, what would you actually decide? ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/you-re-probably-right-7050884/episodes/love-by-committee-when-friends-family-exes-and-social-media-control-your-relationship/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/you-re-probably-right-7050884/love-by-committee-when-friends-family-exes-and-social-media-control-your-relationship.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.