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Can there be peace and balance in an unbalanced relationship?

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Can there be peace and balance in an unbalanced relationship?
Can there be peace and balance in an unbalanced relationship?
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Can there be peace and balance in an unbalanced relationship?
September 6, 2020

Some people have a strange way of balancing their lives. Some folks will pick up a hobby or hang out with friends.

But others may take a darker route. They’ll betray their partner or become addicted to drugs or alcohol. You may not see that as balance, but for those people, that’s how they get it.

There are of course healthier ways to balance your life & your relationships, but in this episode, we’re going to talk about the less popular ones.

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Filed Under: Addiction, Emotional Abuse, enabling, Finding peace, Infidelity, Marriage, Personal Boundaries, Relationships Tagged With: How can we find peace in our relationship?, My relationship is so unbalanced, Upset at my partner for betraying me

What to do when you’re going nowhere

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What to do when you’re going nowhere
What to do when you’re going nowhere
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What to do when you’re going nowhere
August 23, 2020

If you’re on a road that you believe is never going to end and never going to get better, what do you do? Should you just accept that’s your lot in life and you should just deal with it?

Or do you take a leap of faith in a direction that leads to the unknown in hopes that life will get better? There is always hope, but sometimes it has to be pursued.

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Filed Under: anxiety, Depression, Dysfunction, Fears, Finding peace, Loneliness, Loss, Marriage, Personal Boundaries, Relationships Tagged With: How do I honor my boundaries when everyone is against me?, Why is change so scary?

The intimacy that happens behind their back

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The intimacy that happens behind their back
The intimacy that happens behind their back
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The intimacy that happens behind their back
July 31, 2020

Cheating and infidelity can be a sensitive topic. You could be a victim to it, you could be the cheater, or you could be the one seeing someone who is cheating on their partner to be with you.

No matter what, there is almost always heartache on the other side. It doesn’t mean there isn’t healing, but there is almost always pain.

In this episode, I receive a message from a woman who is seeing someone cheating on his wife to be with her, and I read another message from someone who was once the cheater. 

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Filed Under: Dating, Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Infidelity, Marriage, Relationships Tagged With: Is being with someone who is cheating okay?, Is the cheater a bad person?, Will they leave their marriage to be with me?

Should commitments always be a forever thing?

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Should commitments always be a forever thing?
Should commitments always be a forever thing?
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Should commitments always be a forever thing?
July 12, 2020

Getting that job, buying that house, moving in with that person, promising to repay a debt… all commitments that that most of us go into with good intentions, but is it required to keep them no matter what?

Some commitments that started off as a good idea may need to be re-evaluated if what you thought was going to be great isn’t.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Conflict, Decisions, Divorce, Marriage, Relationships, Suffering, Toxic People Tagged With: Are you supposed to keep all your commitments?, When you need to break a promise, When you realize the commitment was a mistake

Judgment – The Ultimate Relationship Destroyer

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Judgment can be one of the most damaging weapons in a relationship. It tells your partner that it’s not okay to be themselves.

This builds resentment in them and will eventually corrode even the most intimate relationships. Even if your relationship survives the corrosive effect of judgment, it still suffers.

This article explains how your emotional triggers form your judgments and how judging those closest to you can make you and everyone else around you miserable.

Judgment truly is the ultimate relationship destroyer. [Read more…]

Filed Under: abuse, Behavior, Beliefs, childhood, Control, Dysfunction, Emotional Abuse, Emotional Triggers, Emotional Withdrawal, Guilt, Judgment, Manipulation, Marriage, Negative Emotions, Relationships Tagged With: how to stop judging, Husband is so critical of me, judging in marriage, judging in relationship, judging my wife, Partner is always criticizing me

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