#104: How Can I Be More Empathetic To My Wife?

The Betrayed, The Addicted, The Expert

Ashlynn Mitchell, Brannon Patrick, Coby Mitchell

Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Sexuality, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Byran's Question: "After listening to the "How do I break my walls down and trust him again" episode I would like to ask a question... In mine and my wife's situation I am the one who broke trust with her, obviously, but I would like some "pointers" on how to remain empathetic and steady. I am not very good with handling "rejection", and I know that I can come off really douchie toward her when, for example, I ask her to be intimate and she says no... then I ask her "why" and she gets upset because I'm not respecting her boundary... I do love my wife very much and I want to make sure that I am doing everything in my power to make her feel loved and respected but I am having a hard time with this aspect. I would love to speak with you guys if you can help in any way..."

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0:00.0	Can I be more empathetic to my wife?
0:07.4	Welcome to the Real Talk Recovery Podcast with the Therapy Brothers.
0:10.5	We're brothers, we're therapists, and we know recovery.
0:14.4	Bring your stories, your questions, your successes with real recovery.
0:30.9	This is going to be a good discussion today, Brandon.
0:35.9	This is a question we probably hear a thousand times over on a yearly basis.
0:40.4	Yes, very common.
0:41.9	Before we do that, we got another review.
0:44.8	I want to read it. It's a good review.
0:47.0	It's titled Thank You Michelle, which is referencing our guest from a past episode.
0:51.9	And it says, I wish I found this earlier.
0:54.5	I love the boundaries episode.
0:56.1	I fell into the advice of other recovery professionals and the unhelpful
0:59.9	boundaries you mentioned. It was extremely damaging to my marriage.
1:04.1	I'm not sure how we can or we'll come back from it or if it just compounded and confused
1:08.8	the damage it was already there. I'm working through your episodes and the advice feels
1:13.1	so much more aligned with my truth. Thank you so much for your honesty and advice.
1:19.5	Yeah, we got quite a reaction from that episode.
1:22.6	I think we need to do follow-up episode and speak more to it.
1:27.7	There's a lot of, I think Tyler, a lot of wisdom that we have from being in the arena for so long
1:35.0	and seeing what works and what doesn't.
1:36.9	And I think we need to speak to that even more.
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