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Breaking up for newbies – Enabling your own terrible relationship – Dating the emotional abuser

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Breaking up for newbies – Enabling your own terrible relationship – Dating the emotional abuser
Breaking up for newbies – Enabling your own terrible relationship – Dating the emotional abuser
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Breaking up for newbies – Enabling your own terrible relationship – Dating the emotional abuser
February 4, 2018
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Segment 1: Without a history of breakups, your first major one can seem devastating and life-ending.

In this segment, I help the newbie get through all the symptoms of the first major heartbreak.

Segment 2: When you think your relationship is horrible and you find yourself taking up all the slack for your deadbeat other half, are you creating your own misery?

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Filed Under: abuse, Codependency, Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Emotional Withdrawal, enabling, Human Potential, Loneliness, Loss, Lying, Manipulation, Marriage, Narcissism, Relationships Tagged With: Breaking up for newbies, Dating the emotional abuser, Enabling your own terrible relationship

Stupid questions that heal – Dealing with the Sociopath – Endless codependence

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Stupid questions that heal – Dealing with the Sociopath – Endless codependence
Stupid questions that heal – Dealing with the Sociopath – Endless codependence
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Stupid questions that heal – Dealing with the Sociopath – Endless codependence
January 21, 2018
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Segment 1: Asking yourself stupid questions may be the path to healing and moving through the hard stuff in your life.

We often have choices when it appears we don’t – stupid questions may lead to more choices (full article here).

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Filed Under: Codependency, Communication, Control, Dysfunction, Emotional Abuse, Emotional Triggers, enabling, Family, Human Potential, Manipulation, Marriage, Narcissism, Negative Emotions, Thinking, Toxic People Tagged With: Dealing with the Sociopath, Endless codependence, Stupid questions that heal

They love you but don’t like to say it – Getting over the guilt of how you treated your ex – You can manipulate but should you

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They love you but don’t like to say it – Getting over the guilt of how you treated your ex – You can manipulate but should you
They love you but don’t like to say it – Getting over the guilt of how you treated your ex – You can manipulate but should you
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They love you but don’t like to say it – Getting over the guilt of how you treated your ex – You can manipulate but should you
December 24, 2017
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Segment 1: Is it hard for you or your partner to say I love you?

Sometimes the past can play an important role to prevent or encourage those words to come out of someone’s mouth. If the love is there but the words aren’t, it doesn’t always mean there is no love. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Guilt, Human Potential, Loneliness, Manipulation, Marriage, Podcast Episode, Rejection, Relationships Tagged With: Getting over the guilt of how you treated your ex, They love you but don't like to say it, You can manipulate but should you?

Holding on to a lie to keep the relationship going

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Holding on to a lie to keep the relationship going
Holding on to a lie to keep the relationship going
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Holding on to a lie to keep the relationship going
December 6, 2017
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When you find out a lie that your partner has been holding on to for months or years, where does that leave the relationship?

How do you move on? What if it’s a minor lie and your relationship has been going great?

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Filed Under: Deception, Divorce, Infidelity, Lying, Manipulation, Marriage, Relationships, Values Tagged With: Holding on to a lie to keep the relationship going

Attracting higher quality partners – Feeling sorry for those that abuse you – Try, try again or do or do not?

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Attracting higher quality partners – Feeling sorry for those that abuse you – Try, try again or do or do not
Attracting higher quality partners – Feeling sorry for those that abuse you – Try, try again or do or do not
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Attracting higher quality partners – Feeling sorry for those that abuse you – Try, try again or do or do not
December 3, 2017
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Segment 1: Do you attract the worst partners? What does it take to find a normal person to date?

There is a path to attracting quality partners but it may involve facing your fear of loss.

Segment 2: If you feel bad for your emotional abuser or manipulator, you are more likely to stay in the relationship and take the abuse.

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Filed Under: abuse, Codependency, Compassion, Control, Divorce, Dysfunction, Emotional Abuse, Emotional Withdrawal, enabling, Manipulation, Marriage, Relationships, Thinking, Toxic People Tagged With: Attracting higher quality partners, Feeling sorry for those that abuse you, Try try again or do or do not?

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