#382 - Signs Your Relationship Is in Distress
Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
When relationships are in distress, things change. Conflict is more hurtful and less productive. Couples stop seeing each other's points of view, and stop trusting each other's good intentions. But as an experience couples counselor, I know that the biggest obstacle to healing these relationships is something else — the negative narratives that distressed couples start to believe about each other, without realizing that they're both reacting to the dynamic itself, rather than something essential about their partner.
Understanding what a distressed relationship looks and feels like is important. It can help you get help for your relationship when you need it, and it can help you see past these negative narratives, understand where they're coming from, and bridge the divide.
This podcast episode will show you the way! You'll learn why relationships enter the distress cycle, what it looks like, and what you can do if you and your partner are struggling.
xoxo,
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
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| 0:00.0 | All couples have ups and downs and all relationships bring opportunities to learn, to grow, |
| 0:10.7 | to work on ourselves. |
| 0:12.5 | And it's also true that there is a difference between a relationship rough patch that |
| 0:19.2 | heralds a growth opportunity and a sign that your relationship is |
| 0:24.5 | really in trouble and might even be on the brink. So on today's episode, you're going to learn |
| 0:31.6 | about real relationship warning signs so that you know what to do to get things back on track. our mood music today is my face and taught a memory |
| 0:55.1 | our mood music today is from Ms. PJ Harvey. The song is on Battleship Hill, which I chose |
| 1:06.1 | for us because it is a gorgeous song. But I think it also just conveys a feeling that happens in a truly |
| 1:12.5 | distressed relationship. I mean, even when people have good intentions still, it feels like |
| 1:18.0 | an ongoing battle. PJ Harvey has a new album out that you can check out on her band camp page |
| 1:25.9 | called Old Year Dying. And be sure to follow her so that you |
| 1:30.2 | know when she's going on tour. And welcome to another episode of the Love Happiness and Success |
| 1:36.5 | podcast. This is for growth-oriented people like you who are on a mission to create more |
| 1:43.6 | love, happiness, and success in their lives. |
| 1:46.9 | I'm your host, Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby. I'm the founder of growing self-counseling and coaching. |
| 1:52.7 | My background, I'm a licensed psychologist, a board-certified coach, and I'm also a licensed |
| 1:58.0 | marriage and family therapist. So we talk a lot about love and relationships on this show, and today is going to be one of those. |
| 2:08.2 | Again, you know, I really wanted to record an episode for you on this topic about how to know if your relationship is really in distress because there are some unique |
| 2:21.5 | characteristics of relationships that are really starting to go down the tubes. |
| 2:26.8 | And it's important to be able to see that and know how to intervene in order to shift |
| 2:33.0 | that because if you don't, unfortunately, I've seen this as a |
| 2:37.2 | marriage counselor, couples can get to this point of no return where even if they do get into |
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