#132 - Should You Break Up Or Stay Together?

Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

Marriage, Mental Health, Success, Emotionalintelligence, Selfhelp, Wellness, Mentalhealth, Selfimprovement, Career, Health, Society & Culture, Careerdevelopment, Mindfulness, Lifeadvice, Dating, Parenting, Breakups, Relationships, Productivity, Positive, Happiness, Goals, Health & Fitness, Communication

4.6 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Break up or stay together? Who hasn't wondered the same, during a seriously difficult time in their relationship? Or, entertained an even bigger question: Should you try to save a relationship? How hard should you work? Especially a relationship that has been feeling really hard and unsatisfying for a long time? How do you know when it's time to call it quits?

Because deciding whether to break up or stay together is such a hard decision, we have many questions come through from clients, listeners of our podcast, and readers of our blog wanting help in deciding if their relationship can be saved, or if it's time to throw in the towel.

They want to know things like:

"How long should it take to see improvement in my relationship?"
"In my heart, I don't want to be married to this person anymore. Will it ever come back?"
"Is what I'm seeing solvable, or is this a sign we should break up?"
"Once a cheater, always a cheater? Or can you have a good relationship after infidelity?"
"I'm not being treated well by my boyfriend. Can this change?"
"How do I know if I've tried hard enough to save my relationship?"

If you've been going through a hard time in your relationship that has led you to have doubts, I hope that this episode of the Love, Happiness and Success Podcast can help shed some light on signs that it's time to break up, or whether your relationship can be saved.

Sincerely,

Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

P.S. We discussed a number of resources on this show. Here's where to find the links to all of them: https://bit.ly/2Pga85B

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success podcast.
0:07.3	Sometimes I feel so happy.
0:13.0	Sometimes I feel so sad.
0:18.9	Sometimes I feel so happy. but mostly you just make me mad.
0:27.6	Baby, you just make me mad.
0:32.6	Linger all... That's the Velvet Underground and the late great Lou Reed with their classic song,
0:44.3	Pale Blue Eyes, which is a beautiful love song about an extremely complicated relationship.
0:51.9	And I thought it was the perfect song to kind of bookend
0:56.8	our show today because we've been getting a lot of questions. I have been getting a lot of
1:02.2	questions from listeners and from readers of our blog at Growingself.com.
1:08.4	Tackling this big question around how do I know if this relationship that I'm in
1:15.8	can be saved? Can we get it back together? Can we love each other again? Or how do you know if it's
1:23.4	time to let go? And that's where we're going today on the love, happiness, and success podcast.
1:30.0	If this is your first time listening, welcome. I'm so glad you're here. I'm Dr. Lisa Marie
1:35.1	Bobby. And the love, happiness, and success podcast is all about you and your questions and what's
1:43.8	going on in your life.
1:46.2	So you know a little bit about me.
1:48.2	I'm the founder and clinical director of growing self-counseling and coaching.
1:52.3	We specialize in marriage counseling, couples counseling, dating coaching, hence the love.
1:59.6	We also do a lot of therapy, life coaching, a lot of breakup recovery
2:05.1	coaching lately, hence the happiness. And in addition to that, we do career coaching, executive
2:12.0	coaching and kind of all around like who do I want to be when I grow up and what is my life all about kind of
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