Relationship Dish

This week the therapists dish and dive about affairs and infidelity.

Listen in as they dish about their own experiences with infidelity and affairs (spoiler alert, it’s not pretty) and the impact they’ve had on their lives.

Learn from the literature how to deal with it, get past it or get out of it if it happens to you!

This week the therapists dish about the fine balance between togetherness and separateness. Iona struggles with both her teenage daughter’s and husband’s growing up and away from her while in the past, Pam, the introvert, has struggled with Eric’s need for more togetherness and more recently, his needs for separateness. The therapists then dive on some useful literature to help us understand and navigate this precarious balance, with the ultimate goal of improving our connection by communicating our needs and feelings to our partner.

Even though defense mechanisms are normal, they can really get in the way of closeness with your partner.

This week the therapists dish about the defenses they use and how they're affecting their own romantic relationships! (Spoiler alert: it’s not great!)

They then dive into some interesting definitions of defense mechanisms and share a list of some of the most popular ones! You’ll recognize yourselves! We did!

Some useful takeaways follow as always!

Anger is a very important and informative emotion, yet many of us have troubles allowing ourselves to just be with it. Listen in as the therapists dish about their own history and relationship with anger. It hasn’t always been a comfortable relationship between themselves and anger. They’ve fought it, felt ashamed by it, given in to it and been controlled by it.

Learn healthy ways of expressing anger, understand the difference between assertiveness and aggressiveness and discover what hidden gems might be under your anger.