41. Navigating Relationships By Trusting Your Instincts
Give It To Me Straight
Dear Media
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve ever been in a relationship, you know how outside influences can do more harm than good at any given time. Even when your gut is telling you the answer, those outside factors can get you to second guess yourself. The truth is, you just have to trust yourself sometimes and go with your intuition. In this episode, Jon and Alex answer listener questions about a proposal that’s not a surprise, setting financial boundaries with your parents, sleeping with your sister’s ex husband, your boyfriend’s suspicious relationship with your stepmom, and figuring out how to say goodbye to your soulmate.
(0:00) Intro
(13:33) Our Listeners Give Their Advice
(18:30) Is A Proposal Still Special If You Know It’s Happening?
(20:20) Is It Still The Thought That Counts?
(24:16) Does Giving Back To Your Parents Need Boundaries?
(30:11) Why Are You Sleeping With Your Sisters Ex Husband?
(34:18) How You Start Your Family Is Your Choice
(37:43) Your House Is Your Safe Space
(41:22) How To Say Goodbye
(45:50) Are Your Boyfriend And Stepmom Hiding Something?
(50:05) Listener Review
(50:44) Icks
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| 0:00.0 | That's a thing? |
| 0:00.8 | What do you mean emotional traits? |
| 0:02.5 | You can look at a sperm and be like, |
| 0:04.3 | does this have anxiety? |
| 0:05.2 | Yeah, like if you donated to a sperm bank, |
| 0:08.1 | they would be like moody bitch, complaints a lot. |
| 0:11.8 | Okay. |
| 0:13.0 | And welcome back to Give it Toe Straight. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Alex. |
| 0:19.0 | And I am John. |
| 0:20.0 | And we're your gracious, gracious, gracious host. |
| 0:24.7 | This is crazy, because that, like, |
| 0:26.6 | was the first time we have our headphones on? |
| 0:27.6 | I don't like it. |
| 0:28.6 | I want to take them off. |
| 0:30.0 | I like it though, because. |
| 0:30.8 | No, I'm taking it off. |
| 0:31.6 | All right, you can take yours off. |
| 0:32.3 | I want to keep mine on. |
| 0:33.0 | Okay. That way I know like when I'm talking into the mic |
| 0:36.0 | we're really going back to medieval times right now. |
| 0:39.0 | Medieval? |
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