You're listening to On Attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience relationships

and where you'll gain the guidance, knowledge and practical tools to overcome insecurity and build healthy, thriving relationships.

I'm your host, relationship coach Stephanie Rigg,

and I'm really glad you're here.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome back to another episode of On Attachment.

In today's episode, I'm joined by my partner, Joel,

and we are answering your questions about our relationship.

We actually did one of these episodes a little over a year ago, and it's funny to reflect back

on that. That's probably not discernible from your perspective as a listener, but certainly for

me, and I assume for you as well Joel it feels like a

long time ago and when I think back to our relationship then and our relationship now and

everything that we've been through it feels like it's high time that we do a refresher on this

episode and answering questions about how we navigate things how we have have navigated things, our approach to relationships.

And hopefully that will give you a bit of insight and maybe some cause for optimism if you are

in an anxious, avoidant kind of dynamic yourself and you're feeling really stuck and overwhelmed

and exasperated, as can often be the case

knowing that there are ways to do this that don't have to feel so kind of frustrating and

like a dead end or feeling like you're really powerless against this this dynamic that can get

quite overwhelming so this episode is not to put ourselves on a pedestal

or to suggest that our relationship is perfect. It absolutely is not. We go through all of the

regular, boring, mundane couple of stuff that most everyone else does. But really just to, as I said,

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