Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton.

And today we are talking about relationships. And I am not a relationship expert. If you

know me, you know this, I am an introvert. And for me, that means that it doesn't mean

this for all introverts. It means that relationships can be really challenging for me. I love my

time by myself. And, you know, but I know relationships are extremely important. And it's

something that comes up a lot. A lot in with my work with clients, a lot in the Primal Potential

Facebook group. And it makes sense because they're a huge part of life, whether you're an

introvert or not. And they can have a massive impact on the way we feel. And the way we feel

can have a massive impact on the choices we make. What I want to do is I want to share a handful

of questions that I use to help me in relationships. And this can be relationships with colleagues.

It can be relationships with romantic partners, with kids, with family members, with strangers.

And this came up because in the Primal Potential Facebook group, which is a free group, it's

an amazing community if you're not already a part of it. Somebody posted about having

a hard time with their own mind stemming from relationships with other people. If you

saw the post, it was basically an individual who has a mother-in-law in and out of the

hospital and a husband in and out of the hospital and kids that are handfuls. And part of the

post was like, it said something like my husband doesn't seem to care about his health. And

this person acknowledged that 90% of the solution is likely in their own perspective, right?

But was feeling like they've, as a result of both perspective and circumstance combination,

they've lost their patience, they've lost their compassion and even happiness, which

is a crappy way to feel. And they were looking for another perspective. They were looking

for suggestions on new perspectives. And I'll be the first one to say that oftentimes,

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