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AT HOME with Byron Katie • The Work of Byron Katie® Podcast

#30: My Wife Rejected Me

AT HOME with Byron Katie • The Work of Byron Katie® Podcast

Byron Katie International, Inc.

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.9870 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

J. thinks that his wife rejected him when he tried to be close. He sees her as cold and distant, and he’s left feeling abandoned, unloved, and afraid that his marriage is over. Is there a time in your life when you've thought that someone you love has rejected you? Have you ever questioned the thoughts that made you sad or angry at that time? Join us as this brave man challenges the assumptions he was making that night. Let’s do The Work.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone welcome to the pod and my guest today is Jay and in this situation he's in bed with his wife and she doesn't want him, she's rejecting him,

0:19.0

and he wants to be close. And he has the thoughts that she is immature, unstable, wishy-washy, petty,

0:26.4

selfish. So what outcome? What, what, what, oh my goodness, I'm not even going to ask.

0:33.7

Stay tuned, get still, open your minds, follow us as we question what he was thinking and believing that night in bed with his wife.

0:45.0

Let's do the work.

0:47.0

Hello, dears, what's going on?

0:52.0

What's going on? What's going on? What's going on? What's going on notice? Oh my gosh I see me the ego's favorite topic from here I see me walking in the

1:10.4

rain in the dark and early morning.

1:14.6

Oh my God, I love it so much.

1:17.3

I love it so much.

1:20.8

Too bad that's not me.

1:25.0

Only fooling about the too bad. I'm just noticing that's not me.

1:30.0

That's imaging, imagining, imagining.

1:37.5

But I have no proof that was I walking in the rain

1:41.7

this morning. No proof other than nothing. Imagination. Now imagination isn't right or wrong, it's just it can get pretty wild.

1:58.2

It can get pretty wild as you're, as I'm believing that that is I.

2:09.4

It's a dream and not to know the difference is hell. It can be hell. Like holy moly hell like oh my God, depression, but only a decade or so.

2:27.0

The un-enlightened mind is what I'm describing, that sweetness, that me and the rain, oh, I love that movie.

2:47.6

We can get pretty rough.

2:50.2

You know, he said he did, they did did they have you seen them have you seen the news lately

2:58.0

can get pretty rough so when I say notice, you know that news you heard today, yesterday, the day before?

3:10.0

It's still running here. I heard it then a second to go. Is it still running here?

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