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 going to be

sharing some tips on how you can be a better partner, which I think

it sounds kind of obvious, but oftentimes is something that we overlook. We're maybe working

on ourselves as an individual, or maybe we're focused on the things that we would like our

partner to do differently. We're focusing on things like needs and boundaries and communication and conflict. But maybe we're not

so focused on or grounded in. Like how am I showing up in my capacity as a partner? And what is my

contribution to the relational environment that we are co-creating here and what made it look like to really

focus on how I'm showing up and how I could be a better partner, how I could be a more loving,

compassionate, kind, supportive partner, not to the detriment of ourselves, not in a way that's like veering into codependent territory,

but from a really secure place of just like, how can I show up as the most loving partner

that I can be? So I'm going to be sharing some thoughts on this. This was inspired by an

Instagram post that I put up last week that went a bit viral. So obviously it's a topic that

is resonating with people and that really landed for people. So I thought it might be useful to

unpack in a little more depth and nuance here, obviously, than I can do in an Instagram post.

So that's what we're going to be talking about today, how you can be a better partner. I'm going to

be sharing six tips. Before we dive into that, a couple of quick

announcements. The first just being, if you listened to last week, you would have heard me

...