082 SelfWork: Confronting the Loneliness and Apathy of Living Parallel Lives
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Loneliness is hard no matter when or where it happens. This episode, sponsored by Audible.com, gives ten ways to combat or confront apathy and loneliness in your relationship or marriage. Feeling lonely in a relationship can also be devastating, as your lives are lived side by side but there’s little to no real connection. You’re […]
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| 0:15.2 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford at self-work. We'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world and what to do about |
| 0:19.6 | them. I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self-work. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to self-work. I'm so glad you're here. My name is Dr. Margaret Rutherford. I'm a clinical |
| 0:34.9 | psychologist out of Fayetteville, Arkansas. I've been practicing for over 25 years and I |
| 0:41.0 | wanted to extend the walls of my practice when I began podcasting about a year and a half ago or a little more. |
| 0:47.0 | I wanted to try to reach people not only who might be in therapy or be talking to a mental health professional, but to people who might not even know what a psychologist |
| 0:56.8 | or a clinician would have to say about emotional issues or psychological dilemmas, |
| 1:02.4 | but they might be curious enough to listen to a |
| 1:04.9 | podcast. I'm also a huge proponent of trying to confront the stigma around |
| 1:10.6 | mental illness so I try to provide lots of education about |
| 1:14.7 | mental illness. So thank you for being here. I hope today's subject is not one that |
| 1:20.5 | you're highly familiar with, but if it is, it can truly be devastating and |
| 1:26.0 | that is apathy and loneliness. You're in a relationship, but you still feel very, very lonely lonely and you may have even or your partner may have |
| 1:36.4 | become apathetic. I've heard many times someone say in their desperation, |
| 1:41.6 | I'd rather be lonely alone than be lonely in this marriage. |
| 1:46.2 | So that's the topic for today. |
| 1:48.3 | This podcast is sponsored by audible.com. |
| 1:51.6 | I don't have advertising on this podcast but when Audible reached |
| 1:55.2 | out to me I thought you know I think this is a win-win we'll talk more about it |
| 1:59.2 | later in the program you know apathy can be used almost as a defense mechanism. If you've been |
| 2:05.5 | hurt then you tell yourself you don't care. It's protective in a way. But here are |
| 2:09.8 | ten things to try and I always get tickled when I do a list of 5 or 10 because so many people do it and yet people really tend to be drawn to post or podcasts that have lists. |
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