On the side of people who know you but are more of this irrational or more reactive, she calls

frenemies, which she said, these are people who don't really want to see you improve but they know how to hurt you because they know you well or in her list of who this could be she includes

exes toddlers I love that and your toddlers undermining coworkers and yourself.

I was like ooh yy yy yy yy yy yy yy yy y yy yy yy yy yy yep welcome to the multi amory

podcast I'm jace I'm Emily and I'm dead occur. We believe in looking to the future of

relationships not maintaining the status quo of the past. So whether you're

monogamous, polyamorous, swinging, casually dating, or if you just do relationships differently, we see you and we're here for you. I know I did.

forcing me to for myself to fit.

On this episode of the multi-amory podcast we're talking about how to continue to grow

and thrive when receiving criticism.

Especially criticism that comes from friends, partners,

or other allies.

When receiving criticism, it's common for people

to fight back with defensiveness and counter criticism or to freeze and shut down and give up.

Our social media even encourages this kind of thing by being more likely to show us conflict

rather than healthy examples.

So today we're exploring this incredibly important topic, discussing some of the challenges

in handling criticism well, as well as some concrete ways that you can learn to improve yourself, be a

better communicator and ally, and bring people together instead of pushing us

all further apart. Wow what a nice note to end on for that intro.

Let's just cut it there.

We're done, that's it.

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