#131: How Do I Stay Out Of Shame When My Partner Needs Me To Just Listen?

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

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Caller Dave's Question: "I attempted to have an affair and was caught. My spouse and I have been working through my addiction recovery and her betrayal trauma recovery. At times she is triggered and talks to me about it to keep communication open and transparent. How do I keep from shaming myself for what I have done to her when she needs me to just listen." Tyler Patrick, "The Wandering Therapist", is co-founder of Love Strong (lovestrong.com), a Christian-based Recovery + WHOLEHEARTED living therapy practice. If you'd like to work with Love Strong via telehealth or in-person, reach out to us at [email protected] or go to our website: https://lovestrong.com. We have a great online Foundations Of Recovery Class starting soon. This class is for sex addiction recovery and healing from betrayal trauma. Go to https://lovestrong.com/services/foundations-group/ to learn more and sign up. Brannon Patrick, "The Expert", is co-founder of Therapy Utah (therapyutah.org). You can follow Brannon on Instagram @brannon_patrick. He has some really great online courses available at brannonpatrick.com like his Boundary Bootcamp course. Brannon has a program called L.I.F.T. for betrayal trauma and addiction recovery available online starting soon. Go to https://www.liftforrecovery.com/ for more info! Join us for one of our "Life-Changing" retreats. therapybros.com/events

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0:00.0	How do I stay out of shame when my partner needs me to just listen?
0:05.0	Welcome to the Real Talk Recovery Podcast with the Therapy Brothers.
0:10.0	We're brothers, we're therapists, and we know recovery.
0:14.0	Bring your stories, your questions, your successes with real recovery.
0:30.0	All right, this is a question that we get all the time, right?
0:42.0	I wish there was a magic pill just for this one question.
0:47.0	But I think we do have a lot of insight and answers to it, Tyler.
0:50.0	So I think this will be good.
0:53.0	Hopefully we can actually break it down where there is a process to it.
0:57.0	So anyways, how have you been, Tyler?
1:00.0	I've been great, man. What's going on in your world?
1:03.0	Oh, you know, just eating good food and living the drain.
1:09.0	All I did all weekend was cook.
1:12.0	What were you doing all weekend?
1:14.0	Oh, we had this breakfast casserole and cinnamon rolls and we were just hanging out at home with the family.
1:23.0	Yeah, it was just good, good times.
1:26.0	I got to tell you, man, I'm sitting here looking at you right now.
1:30.0	For anyone who wants to see Brandon's like new look, you guys need to go to Spotify and watch us on Spotify.
1:35.0	But your hair is becoming quite the, it's quite a project you've got going there.
1:42.0	You just called my hair the product.
1:45.0	It reminds me, I don't know if that's a compliment.
1:48.0	It's somewhat reminds me of when we were in high school, you decided to grow yourself,
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