#12671 How Can I Heal a Strained Relationship? Forgiveness and Love - Rose Sweet
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“How can I heal a strained relationship?” This episode addresses practical steps for mending relationships, including four tips for healing and insights on reconciling childhood trauma. Additionally, the discussion touches on honoring parents as a Catholic and navigating complex family dynamics after forgiveness.
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Questions Covered:
- 03:18 – What are four tips for healing a strained relationship?
- 12:03 – How do you reconcile childhood trauma?
- 15:42 – Listen, Lead, Love, Let go.
- 18:01 – Resentment
- 20:42 – How can I honor my parents now that I am a Catholic?
- 33:59 – I have forgiven my family for various things, but my wife hasn’t. I have let it go, but it is causing strain.
- 43:18 – I have had a hurt relationship; I was married outside the church in an abusive relationship. I am now married in the church, but I still feel like I need healing. (Guidance)
- 46:19 – My father passed away, my mom is giving the family house to my brother when it was promised to me. How can I respond to this best?
- 52:31 – To what degree to talk about something controversial or let it go if we know that it will cause someone to be upset?
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| 0:32.7 | My name is Edgar Lujano, producer for the show and filling in for Sykella today. |
| 0:36.9 | What a great Monday to be here with you all. Si will be here with you at the end of the week. But in the meantime, myself and Thomas Graff will be filling in for their first few days. So hang on, hang on to the right. It's going to be a great time. And what better way than this wonderful two-hour lineup? On the second hour, we're going to have the one and only Tom Nash answering your questions on the mass. So if you have a question about the mass, that's your man to call right there in the second hour. So hang in there. But of course, this first hour, we have the one, the only the wonderful, Rose sweet. I told you I was going to introduce you like that, Rose. |
| 1:12.3 | Author, Speaker, Life and a Relationship Coach. |
| 1:14.6 | And the author of 14 books, that's pretty impressive, Rose, I got to admit. |
| 1:20.6 | Well, it's been a long time. |
| 1:22.0 | I've been writing, doing this for a long time. |
| 1:24.6 | And you know what? |
| 1:25.3 | You might be my new favorite Catholic radio host. I don't know. |
| 1:29.2 | Well, so I come back and not have a job. Who knows? You know, I can't. That's above my pay grade, |
| 1:34.8 | but I will say I just got a new achievement in my life. And as your favorite, your favorite host, |
| 1:41.0 | this is great. I'm loving it. I will say this, not to, not add a little more, you know, a sugar on top of that, but you do have a special place on my heart, and I have to, and I have to tell you why. So when I started here at Catholic Answers four years ago, I ended up starting on a Friday because my now wife got sick with COVID, so they told me not to come in on Monday. |
| 2:01.7 | So I had to spend a few days home, kind of making sure that I wasn't sick either. |
| 2:04.9 | So I came in on a Friday, and you were the very first guest of Catholic Answers Live in my career while I was here working in the office. |
| 2:13.0 | So I remember walking in here and seeing you and saying hi. |
| 2:15.9 | And yeah, it was a great time. |
| 2:17.7 | I think there's a recording of that. |
| 2:19.4 | I think I came into the studio during that day. |
| 2:23.1 | So, yeah. |
| 2:24.1 | You know what? |
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