Podcasts by What Healthy Couples Know That You Dont
Relationships matter. Do you want to know the nitty gritty of what makes a relationship work? Get your answers to relationship questions. Learn how to keep respect alive & well, because lack of respect is why people get divorced. Learn what builds trust & how to recover from infidelity, drama or codependency. Advice from psychotherapist Rhoda Sommer based on over 35 years of working with couples. www.therapyideas.net
Further podcasts by Rhoda Sommer on Relationships
Podcast on the topic Beziehungen
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From Clashes to Connection: Using Disagreement to Deepen Relationships from 2023-12-05T10:30
Agreement and harmony are too often celebrated as the cornerstones of strong relationships, it is only in the presence of healthy disagreement that truly adds depth, resilience, and growth to th...
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Sleep: Separating Fact from Fiction for Better Sleep and Stronger Relationships from 2023-11-16T14:08:38
Sleep is a universal experience that affects everyone. Sleep is particularly relevant to relationships, as poor sleep habits can impact both partners and cause relationship stress. Sleep disorde...
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Building Trust: The Foundation of Strong Relationships from 2023-10-23T09:30
Trust is one of the most important elements in a relationship. It gives it its foundation, making sure everything else can fall into place and stay there. Without trust, relationships don't stan...
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Unlocking The Secret To No More Arguing from 2023-10-02T09:30
Couples need guidance for navigating conflict wisely and skillfully. Hearing what someone has to say is integral in communication, particularly when working through a conflict. Being able to rea...
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Relationships with Yourself&Others While In Recovery from 2023-09-12T09:00
Recovery can be very difficult because of shame. Shame is an obstacle to healing for everybody. How do you face hard truths about your own dark side without drowning in the shame? Learn how to b...
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IMPROVE PARENTING TEENS&REDUCE STRESS ON COUPLES from 2023-08-21T09:00
Parenting teens can be a struggle and an additional stress on relationships. Your sweet easy to maneuver children turn into road blocks & obstacles. Parents wonder what happened & where did they...
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Relationship Goals: Prioritizing Personal Fulfillment for Lasting Love from 2023-07-31T09:00
We'll explore how prioritizing our own personal growth and self-care can translate into stronger and more fulfilling relationships with our partners. We'll also be sharing tips and strategies fo...
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Unpacking The Benefits Of A Healthy Sex Life from 2023-07-11T09:30
Insights from a Sex Therapist Expert. Why not prioritize your sex life and wellness? Listen if you are curious about how your sex life stacks up again...
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Creating A More Satisfying Relationship from 2023-06-21T09:00
Relationships can be very confusing. We are taught reading, science, history & if we are lucky sex ed but not anything about what creates trust, why repair is important or how to communicate esp...
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How To Make Conflict Work For Real Intimacy from 2023-05-30T09:30
We all believe it is ideal not to fight, this is complete fantasy. The only way to have real intimacy is to be authentic about our differences instead of swallowing our secret truths. We all wan...
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Embracing Conflict To Improve Your Relationships from 2023-05-08T09:30
People love to avoid conflict because it is messy. Conflict makes people uncomfortable and they don’t like not knowing what will happen. Conflict is really important to growing up. My definition...
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CULTURE AS A CONNECTION COUPLES CAN SHARE from 2023-04-19T09:30
There are different ways for couples to be connected; mutual religion as a shared values system, all the many physical activities of tennis, rock climbing, dancing or kayaking. Having shared con...
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Ingredients for Relationship Longevity; Imagination, Attention&Gumption from 2023-03-27T09:30
Longevity in relationships slips so easily through our fingers, it’s not a simple or small achievement, unless one partner is almost always submissive & not resentful about their wants being ign...
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Empowering Men To Understand Problems In Relationships from 2023-03-01T10:30
This episode is for men who want to do better but don’t begin or to know how & their partners who love them. Women often feel misunderstood & men fee...
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EXHAUSTED WOMEN&WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT from 2023-02-01T10:30
Tiredness is often a triangle of trouble that includes guilt & fears. Wading through those feelings is no small task. They stick to your soul like gum on the bottom of your shoe & contaminate yo...
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MOTIVATION FOR THE WORK OF LOVE from 2023-01-02T10:30
What motivates you to have a better relationship or even a better life? Because it will take work. Do you do the work of loving someone? It’s work to accept the parts you find annoying or tediou...
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Let's Talk About Online Dating&The Data from 2022-12-01T10:30
Dating is really hard work because there is so much uncertainty. Dating is a dance of two people not knowing each other & trying to figure out is it worth spending more of your precious time wit...
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Male Depression&Emotional Inexpressiveness from 2022-11-01T09:30
Often men keep from being vulnerable by being vague, especially about feelings. Feelings are avoided because they are confusing or hard to identify. Men often aren't encouraged to talk about the...
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Understanding The Relationships Between Top Dogs&People-pleasers from 2022-10-03T09:30
This is an ordinary relationship pattern and it offers a real opportunity for both people to grow & improve who they are. People-pleasers of course go along to get along, they are helpful & kind...
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People-pleasing In Relationships&What To Do About It from 2022-09-01T18:53
People-pleasing is all about being heavily lopsided in pleasing others as a way of gaining their approval & maintaining relationships. People-pleasing is of course on a continuum, at work in a s...
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Sex&Sexual Desire in Long Term Relationships from 2022-08-01T23:36
Sexuality is a complex, crucial activity. Only on television where couples reach maximum org...
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MANIPULATION IN ALL IT'S COMPLEXITY from 2022-07-05T09:30
Everybody manipulates to get what they want, even 3 year olds. Manipulation is part of our d...
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Individualism Hurts The US in Relationships from 2022-06-06T09:30
Great relationships start with your relationship to yourself. You will be harsh with others if you are harsh with yourself. There are three parts to every relationship. There is you, your partne...
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IN-LAW PROBLEMS&WHAT TO DO ABOUT THEM from 2022-05-09T09:30
Three out of four couples experience significant conflict with their in-laws. In-laws can help young couples or derail them on the path to relationship success. The biggest reasons for tension i...
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Dating Advice To Find Success In Love from 2022-04-18T09:30
Dating is a lot of work! It is all too easy to end up discouraged & want to give up because someone else has once again not followed through & just disappeared. Family & friends often don’t appr...
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ANGRY MEN&WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT from 2022-03-22T09:30
What we want to focus on is, do I have too much anger? Do I get angry too easily? When I get angry, do I stay angry too long? Do I do destructive things when I get angry? So, rather than the ang...
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The Art&Work of Relationships from 2022-02-03T10:00
A collection of wisdom on making relationships work over the decades. You’ve heard me say often “Love is wanting to be a better person for your partner.” So partnerships grow us into bet...
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INSECURE ATTACHMENT&WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT from 2022-01-03T10:30
Everybody deals with insecurity & it has a huge negative impact on relationships. The focus for those who are insecure is what’s wrong with my partner? Secure attachment, is not about playing ga...
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INTERCULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS: UNDERSTANDING THE COMPLEXITY from 2021-12-01T10:30
In intercultural & in interracial relationships as well, you don't always know what you're getting yourself into. Often, it takes several years, severa...
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DIVORCE: THE FINAL OPTION from 2021-11-01T09:30
Divorce often happens in year 6 to 10. research finds year 8 to be ordinary. In the 50s, it was called “The Seven Year Itch’. If your relationship is struggling in these years, it is an ordinary...
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Choices&Their Impact On Relationships Part 2 from 2021-10-04T09:30
Life is chock full of choices. There are choices that are self defeating or even self destructive. Then there are choices that are life generating. It’s our choices that make up our life. It’s o...
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Healthy Self-Esteem Is Critical For Healthy Relationships from 2021-09-01T09:30
Many relationships begin because one person is grabbing onto someone else to feel ok. Everybody wants to be loved, but the solution to this, is the age old wisdom that you have to love yourself ...
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WHAT CAN YOU DO TO MAKE YOUR RELATIONSHIP BETTER? from 2021-08-04T09:30
So often in relationships we are quick to focus our unhappiness on our partner. It’s their fault things don’t get better, right? It’s way too easy to blame others & not look at ourselves. This e...
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Silent Resentments&Unasked Questions Are Engines of Unhappiness from 2021-07-05T09:30
Dig down underneath the resentments to communicate or begin the dead-end path to bitterness. Everybody has a choice about which direction to go in. We avoid the “risk” of asking real questions, ...
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Trauma Affects Relationships from 2021-06-02T09:30
Trauma deeply challenges our sense of safety and security in the world, which often has an impact on relationships. It’s natural for those who have suffered trauma to feel that building close re...
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Responding Instead of Reacting When Communicating from 2021-05-03T09:30
Responding is harder to do because it is more complicated than just defensively reacting. Respecting your partner is all about responding & reacting is only all about you. This episode will help...
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Erectile Dysfunction&Male Sexual Avoidance from 2021-04-01T09:30
Erectile Dysfunction impacts relationships & couples don’t know how to talk about it & don’t have enough information about it, so this episode is all about correcting this problem. The Cleveland...
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Money Harmony In Relationships from 2021-03-03T10:00
Money & sex are the two things couples argue most about. Most couples don't want to talk about it because they fight. Budgets are like diets, they don't work. Learn here how to think about a spe...
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Poison Messages From Your Brain That Damage Your Relationships from 2021-02-02T11:00
Everybody buries themselves in piles of doubt & insecurities that clutter up our lives & our relationships. Some of us cover things up better than others, but no one escapes obsessing about thei...
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Relationship Wisdom from 2021-01-03T17:28:59
Relationships thrive when the 4 pillars of successful relationships are nurtured. The 4 pillars are Honesty, Respect, Generosity & Negotiating. Relationships are one of the most important parts ...
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AVOIDING THE SELF-SACRIFICE TRAP IN RELATIONSHIPS from 2020-12-02T10:30
Self-sacrifice has been misinterpreted by too many, as the way to be the "best" partner you can be. For this episode I have Alicia Munoz joining me to discuss how you can use your own experienc...
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Emotionally Unavailable Men/People In Relationships from 2020-11-02T10:00
Emotionally unavailable men are something many partners experience. I think the greatest pain about this problem is that it leaves both people in a relationship feeling even lonelier. Today’s ep...
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Self Confrontation Will Improve ALL Your Relationships from 2020-10-05T10:00
Self-confrontation is a rare commodity in human beings. It’s really hard to look honestly at yourself. Digesting hard truths about yourself is no easy task. We are all so good at telling ourselv...
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What Gay Couples Have To Teach Us About Monogamy&Open Relationships from 2020-09-02T10:30
Gay couples have insights to offer all couples. Interview with Michael Dale Kimmel author of The Gay Man’s Guide to Open and Monogamous Marriage. He offers important ideas like what is the inten...
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Manipulators&Being Manipulated In Relationships from 2020-08-03T12:00
When you've been in a relationship with a disturbed manipulative person, regardless of where they are on the spectrum, you get into a real habit of looking outward far too much. All of your atte...
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Divorce Prevention 101 from 2020-07-06T10:30
Divorce is letting the obstacles pile up to create a grand canyon of distance. Nobody lives in a paradise of love & agreement. If they do it’s still the beginnings or it’s a false reality where ...
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Attachment Theory&Relationships from 2020-06-02T11:00
Attachment theory is important because it's going to help you to understand your own relationships. Information is power and recognizing yourself in one of these attachment styles could really i...
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Codependency, Let's Think About It As Self Love Deficiency from 2020-05-06T18:57:34
Ross Rosenberg is important because he gave us a new way to think about codependency as self love deficient. He also explains why so many codependent people are addicted to being with the wrong ...
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Quarantine Life&Solving Relationship Struggles from 2020-04-07T10:30
When you are trapped together it can be easy to get stuck in obsessing about all the negatives that annoy you. Our brains love to hang onto negativity. Sometimes people miss that heady excitemen...
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Relationships Require The Benefit Of The Doubt from 2020-03-04T10:30
Relationships so easily end up in feeling critical of your partner or annoyed, that’s because living together exposes us to the other person’s dark side. Our brains encourage us to indu...
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Partners Who Take Up Too Much Space in a Relationship&A Marriage Story (The Movie) from 2020-02-03T10:30
Marriage is work because it’s a very tricky business for a marriage to get things right for BOTH people. That’s why marriage is hard work. The movie A Marriage Story gets a lot of things right. ...
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Safety Has Exaggerated Importance In Relationships from 2020-01-06T10:30
Safety is a way we lie to ourselves about what will work to have a better life & better relationships. We clutch at believing it is safer to avoid talking about problems with our partners. Choic...
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Babies&Their Impact On Relationships from 2019-12-02T10:30
Babies arriving home, don’t have to erase relationships. We all love babies, they are so great and they're so wonderful. They're also tiny bloodsuckers that demand enormous time and energy from ...
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Choices&Their Impact On Relationships from 2019-11-05T10:30
Choices define our lives & our relationships. Many of the choices we make are done without thinking or awareness because they are habits. What makes you more mentally healthy is being aware of h...
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ADDICTION RECOVERY&RELATIONSHIPS from 2019-10-01T09:30
Addiction recovery is too often only focused on the individual. There is an 8 year study that confirms greater recovery success when the relationship is intact & strong. The relationship needs t...
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Sex Life Boost Needed for Your Relationship? Low Desire Problem? from 2019-09-04T09:30
Sex life Boost is something everybody can benefit from. It's too easy to let desire fade away. Listen to learn how to restore vitality. Novelty doesn't work. This interview with Stephen Snyder i...
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Disappointment&Exaggerated Feelings Can Destroy Relationships from 2019-08-05T09:30
Disappointment can be dangerous to relationships. We, as human beings can be very irrational when it comes to disappointment. We nurse our disappointments & they grow to take up too much real es...
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Communicate Better By Understanding The Stories We Tell Ourselves from 2019-07-02T09:30
Communication can be almost impossible with a partner if we only want to steer the story in our favor. Communicati...
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Anger Management&Relationships from 2019-06-04T13:30
Anger can be a huge problem in relationships. This episode asks what's important about anger management for relationships? Anger can be incredibly self absorbed & ugly. It's easy to fall down th...
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Infidelity&Forgiveness: Interview with Dr. Janis Spring from 2019-05-06T15:30
Infidelity is complicated & difficult to heal from. Dr Spring wrote the first book that defines infidelity as a loss of trust & a shattering of the self. The person who has been betrayed struggl...
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Date&Love Bravely; Interview With Dr. Solomon from 2019-04-02T15:47:52
Date to learn more about yourself. Don't stay in the safety of passivity, watching who they are. Dates can be practice to grow. Think of "every intimate partnership as a classroom in which I can...
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Misery In Your Relationship&10 Ways To Fix It from 2019-03-05T17:00
Misery can so easily build in any relationship. Misery zaps your energy to think & it's easy to indulge your sad feelings. The two of you as a couple can fall to the bottom of your priority list...
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Fighting Can Improve Your Relationship from 2019-02-05T16:49:10
Learn how fights can be turned into recovery and intimate conversations. In your fighting there are clues to what ...
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Manipulated&Overly Generous in Relationships? from 2019-01-07T21:42:38
There are many lopsided relationships where one person is catered to & the other partner is what I call overly generous. Partners like to be the nice one but getting stuck in the niceness can ev...
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Sexuality for Women Can Be Improved! Interview with Emily Nagoski from 2018-11-07T15:11:27
Sexuality can be a complicated business, very different from how easy it is on television. Interview with Emily Nagoski the author of Come As You Are. Find out what to do about...
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Love&Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples from 2018-11-02T20:13:49
Love matters so much to people, how it goes wrong & how to put it right. Emotionally Focused Therapy is based on thousands of studies on human attachment, it basically gives us a way of underst...
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Codependency Means Someone Gets Lost&The Relationship is Lopsided from 2018-09-10T14:00
Codependency is a murky business. Codependency is always a part of the beginnings of every love affair. The beginnings are so enchanting for all of us. Your partner can do no wrong, they are abs...
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Partnership&Marriage Are Fragile Craft from 2018-08-09T16:00
Partnerships & Marriage really require a lot from both people. Partnership demands that both people share their points of view & that we must reshape our own personal reality to be more accurate...
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Are You a Top Dog or Do You Cooperate in a Top Dog Relationship? from 2018-07-09T16:00
A Top Dog relationship means you participate in a hierarchy of power by either swallowing & ignoring your more authentic self or by enjoying the role of being manipulatively in charge with your ...
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Love Means Paying Attention&Accepting Disappointment from 2018-06-06T15:00
It’s so easy to start taking each other for granted. We develop habits of how we see each other & we make assumptions instead of being curious. When we don’t feel seen it’s really a big deal & w...
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Ambivalent Marriages&Relationships, What to do? from 2018-05-07T20:00
Couples stuck in ambivalence are secretly in love with maintaining the status quo. Not being wholehearted about either improvement or leaving, erases so many missed opportunities. Living with a ...
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Relationship Problems are Often Power Struggles from 2018-04-09T16:00
Power struggles in relationships are totally ordinary & daily. Things can work in a couple where power is somewhat lopsided, but it will be boring & predictable if one person has all the power t...
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Together&How to Make it Last Over the Years from 2018-03-06T01:16:44
Too many relationships have an over developed sense of the critic, was pointed out in this interview with Dr. Joseph Melnick. It’s easy to blame & tell people what they’re doing wrong. Instead o...
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Insecure? How it Contaminates Relationships Episode #41 from 2018-02-08T16:37:15
Being insecure is something everybody struggles with. Insecurities are easily fed by fears when we believe we are misunderstood. Being insecure tests even the best of us. Insecurities can keep p...
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What Everybody Ought to Know for Relationship Survival Episode #40 from 2018-01-08T17:00
We arrive in this world with very few skills to help us navigate relationships. It takes a few decades just to understand ourselves much less anybody else. I think long term loving requires that...
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Grief&Loss Survival in Relationships Episode #39 from 2017-11-17T22:20:09
As we live our lives, we all experience loss, change and transition.
While we all know the grief associated with change, each grief looks and feels a little different. And, everyon...
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Blended Families, Stepfamilies; A Map for Greater Understanding from 2017-11-07T17:00
Interview with Dr. Patricia Papernow, in her fourth decade working with blended families. Blended families are complicated, where adults may be thrilled to find a new love, children may experien...
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Pornography Addiction, Why it Should Worry You in Relationships from 2017-10-17T16:00
Connection&Disconnection, Learn How it Works from 2017-09-19T16:00
In relationships we take the easy way out a lot. We lie & tell people what they want to hear instead of truth. We silently stash resentments & get divorced. We decide sex is a chore we don’t wa...
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Relationships with Personality Disorders from 2017-08-16T22:00
Personality Disorders are difficult in relationships because they have massive power through manipulation. So if you are in a relationship with a personality disorder, You must figure out how yo...
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Boring Relationship? How to get Out of the Rut from 2017-07-17T23:13:10
Boring relationships sneak upon us. It’s easy to make excuses, we’re too tired after work or busy with the kids. Relationships require work to keep them fresh. You have to be committed to trying...
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Trust Demands a Softening in Attitude from 2017-06-21T01:31:37
Trust means we give up our inclination to exaggerate our wounds out of self interest. We can be very self righteous which creates a distorted picture of what happened. We harden ourselves & ador...
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Relationships Demand Personal Responsibility from 2017-05-18T17:30
Interview with Marcia Turbiner Ph.D who describes the need to have a relationship with yourself in order to make relationships work. She offers a way to think about what is NOT ME and what is ME...
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15 Ways to Encourage Relationship Survival from 2017-04-22T21:25:08
Learn how to think about your relationship in 3 parts, why blame is immature and why being a separate individual keeps a partnership more solid. Consider how sacrifice, respect, going to bed ang...
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Contempt Takes 2 in Relationships from 2017-03-18T23:35:37
Too many people live with contempt in their relationships. Contempt is a power play that leads to loneliness. When ugliness layers & layers over time it becomes ordinary. When contempt is...
People-pleasing is a Danger in Relationships from 2017-02-14T00:52:07
If you are too lopsided in people-pleasing it will lead you to erase too much of who you are and what you want, this will begin the silent path of stock piling resentments. It's important to the...
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What Destroys Contentment in Relationships? from 2017-01-11T17:24:25
Relationships all begin with fantasy & illusions. We have absolutely no idea who somebody else really is but we make it up because we are in love. Fantasy is a flimsy beginning & contentment can...
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Anger Management to GROW Relationships from 2016-12-03T23:07:30
Anger soaked in alcohol or contempt can easily destroy relationships. Anger management is a tough skill to learn instead of the ease of blame. Learn here how to interrupt anger to have a healthy...
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Relationships, Keeping it Real with Rhoda from 2016-10-22T18:36:48
Relationships require a lot of growing up, a lot of facing your own dark side. Facing hard realities helps relationships. I believe real love is about deciding to do the work of being a b...
What is the Biggest Obstacle to Relationship Success? from 2016-09-26T20:22:14
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Dating Advice: What Everybody Needs to Know from 2016-08-23T00:31:54
Dating is often painful because the person who loves the least has the most power. Are you overly generous? Listen to learn about relationships that are too lopsided.
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Relationship Success; What is the #1 Secret from 2016-07-19T01:04:14
Relationship survival is something people should be able to learn more about in College. It’s one of the best parts of life, yet it is a mystery to most people. Listen to learn the primary secre...
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How to Be a TEAM in a Relationship from 2016-06-13T21:46:46
Couples have to evolve over time. Evolving as a Team means that the two of you together solve the puzzle of your strengths & weaknesses & how they can work together. Of all the Couples you know,...
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Relationships are a Dance in the Messiness of Life from 2016-04-11T00:00
What can help with the annoyances over differences when love & idealization wear off? You have to learn to respect the differences which is work, instead of pretending things aren’t that bad. Re...
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O.J&Drama in Relationships from 2016-03-22T00:00
Drama is about manipulation. Manipulation is about winning, not truth. The brilliance of O.J’s lawyers was all about flipping him from the persecutor into the blameless victim & asking the jury ...
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Relationships Require Vulnerability from 2016-03-01T00:00
Manipulation is the core of the Drama Triangle. This game creates confusion & upset, not solutions or a path to truth. Denial is a huge part in the role of Rescuer.Drama is all about power & win...
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What Healthy Couples Know That You Don't from 2016-02-26T01:35:13
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Relationships Require We Recongnize Our Own Dark Side from 2016-02-01T00:00
If you recognize your own dark side you will be a better candidate for love & relationships. It’s important to recognize our part in problems instead of taking comfort in blame.
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We All Want a Relationship with a Clone from 2016-01-10T01:03:27
Deep down we all want people to be like ourselves, then it would be oh, so much easier. Love can easily disintegrate into this unspoken demand that you should be more like me.
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#15 How to Approach Problems in a Relationship from 2015-12-29T00:00
How do you approach hard topics in a relationship? You will learn 4 specific ways to communicate about problems. It’s important to dialogue not have parallel monologues.
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Obsessive Partners Can Be Annoying in Relationships from 2015-11-30T00:00
Obsessiveness can crowd & suffocate the other partner. Obsessiveness is because of anxiety. Obsessive people can be full of “shoulds” & being correct which can lead to self-righteousness.
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Emotional Truths Revealed In The Affair on Showtime from 2015-11-05T00:00
Season 2 of The Affair on Showtime is rich with the emotional truths about the delicate & complicated dance of connections & disconnections in relationships.
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Relationships After Addictions Recovery from 2015-10-19T22:05:11
Relationships disintegrate too often after recovery from addictions. Learn how to avoid triggering shame in the partner in recovery to have greater success.
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Manipulation&The Drama Triangle Part 2 from 2015-10-02T00:00
Drama triangles are often a source of manipulation in relationships. If you want to be loved no matter what or prevent disagreement then you are manipulating.
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Manipulation&Relationships Part 1 from 2015-09-15T00:00
Manipulation requires both the manipulated & the manipulator. Both play their part. Listen to understand the dynamics of emotional manipulation since everybody manipulates to get what they want....
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Communication&Connection Part 2 from 2015-08-30T00:00
Communication builds on trust. Avoiding important conversations evaporates trust. Trust builds on Truth.
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Communication, want to Fix it? from 2015-08-11T00:00
What lies underneath communication problems are power struggles. Someone has to win, someone has to lose.
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How to Argue Better from 2015-07-27T00:00
To fight better learn to acknowledge two points of view, how to be vulnerable & more respectful.
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Missing Out on Sex? from 2015-07-14T00:00
Partners stop having sex & don’t even talk about it. This episode explores why sex is missing in relationships.
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Codependence is NOT Love from 2015-06-22T00:00
Codependence means one partner has lost track of who they are which creates lopsided relationships.
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Never Fighting in Relationships is Bad from 2015-05-26T00:00
You will find out why never fighting is a problem & how to have an argument that gets somewhere.
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When Trust is Broken from 2015-05-11T00:00
Can a relationship survive broken trust? Listen to learn about remorse, dishonesty & respect. Contempt destroys relationships.
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Even Superman Can't Guess What Lois Lane Really Wants from 2015-04-22T13:41:29
Romantic love creates unreasonable expectations. In this episode I'll show you how to fix that & stop making yourself miserable.
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S&M is All Too Common in Relationships from 2015-04-22T13:40:27
Does your relationship involve S & M? Too often couples hold each other hostage in unhealthy patterns. Learn what to do instead.
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Affairs-Blame is Only Part of the Answer from 2015-04-22T13:40:27
There is more to dealing with affairs than just blame. In this episode I will show you how affairs are a window into problems in the relationship.
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