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Foreplay Radio – Couples and Sex Therapy

225: De-escalating Conflicts

Foreplay Radio – Couples and Sex Therapy

Cloud10

Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 β€’ 1.9K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The Pursuer - Withdrawer dance can escalate negative emotions and lead to misunderstanding what each partner is wanting, thinking, and feeling. Join sex therapist Laurie Watson and couples therapist George Faller as the talk about the process of escalation and de-escalation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Let's talk about negative cycles.

0:03.0

Ooh, okay.

0:07.0

Welcome to Four Play Radio, Couples and Sex Therapy.

0:10.0

I'm Lori Watson, your sex therapist.

0:12.0

And I'm George Fallon, your sex therapist.

0:12.6

And I'm George Fallon, a couples therapist.

0:15.0

And we are passionate about talking about sex

0:17.5

and helping you develop a way to talk to each other.

0:20.5

Our mission is to help our audience develop a healthier

0:24.4

relationship to sex that integrates the mind, the heart, and the body.

0:29.7

All right, so in previous episodes we've talked a lot about the world of a pursuer and the world of a withdrawal and other episodes.

0:39.0

Today we're going to put the two together and talk about how they dance and step on each other's toes and what they can do to get out of these negative feedback groups.

0:48.0

I got to feel it mean you can get into a couple of these dances with each other, Miss Pursueer.

0:54.0

That is so true.

0:56.0

As a person who thinks about it a lot, I think and like it makes me crazy, you know, it's like, okay, I know George is more of a withdraw.

1:05.3

So like all my moves, I still analyze them.

1:09.9

I still analyze like, should I call him?

1:12.3

Should I email in this like I emailed

1:15.7

you something then I was telling you today it's like don't worry I'm not expecting

1:19.4

anything for you to do anything about this I just want to show you you know like afraid as a pursuer who is aware of how easy it is to push

1:28.2

somebody away that I'll push you away in some way or what was it last time we were setting up or something and I said you know he said we'll meet at this time or so oh it was the morning one right we talked about that and'm like, George got back to me at 70,

1:44.1

I'm asking Derek because he's a withdrawal, so I'm like comparing like, okay, what am I

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