420 - Courage for Hard Conversations

Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

Multiamory, LLC

Sexuality, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode we're revisiting difficult conversations. In any relationship, there are often hard, emotional, or awkward conversations that we tend to avoid. Whether we're working through a conflict, setting boundaries, making a request, disclosing information, tackling a taboo topic, etc., it helps to understand why we have inhibitions when it comes to these discussions. We're going to talk today about the maladaptive ways we might try to get out of conversations we deem uncomfortable and some better ways to tackle them instead!Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.com/join. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episodes, group video discussions, and our amazing Discord community. Multiamory was created by Dedeker Winston, Jase Lindgren, and Emily Matlack.Our theme music is Forms I Know I Did by Josh and Anand.Follow us on Instagram @Multiamory_Podcast and visit our website Multiamory.com. We are a proud member of the Pleasure Podcasts network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Along those lines if you are feeling that nervousness or you know tension or
0:09.2	or fear even something like that one thing that you can do is to just acknowledge that and be honest about it.
0:17.0	So it could be something as simple as I'm feeling really nervous about this conversation,
0:22.0	so bear with me as I'm trying to gather my
0:25.0	thoughts and realize that that might make the other person also feel a little bit
0:30.8	nervous knowing that you're nervous about it, but at least the fact that you're
0:34.7	acknowledging it and being honest about it, I find takes the edge off a little bit.
0:40.8	So it's not like I'm picking up non-verbally on this person being
0:44.7	really nervous to talk to me but I don't know why and so now I'm scared and them
0:50.3	kind of saying it up front at least least it's like, okay, we're acknowledging
0:54.7	that we're starting from the same reality and that I'm able to kind of get where
1:00.3	you're coming from and not just be picking up on it through my mirror neurons,
1:05.7	picking up on your nervousness and I don't understand why.
1:08.3	And so now I feel nervous and I don't understand why.
1:15.0	Welcome to the Multiamari Podcast. I'm Jace.
1:16.0	I'm Emily.
1:17.0	And I'm Dedicur.
1:18.0	We believe in looking to the future of relationships,
1:21.0	not maintaining the status quo of the past.
1:25.0	Whether you're monogamous, polyamorous, swinging, casually dating, or if you just do relationships
1:30.8	differently, we see you and we're here for you. For some made up for myself to fix.
1:49.3	On this episode of the Multiamari Podcast, we're diving deep into the world of uncomfortable conversations.
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