475: The Healthy Way to End a Relationship
The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
Michelle Chalfant
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Not every relationship is meant to last forever. Friendships, partnerships, even family or work connections can shift. Sometimes the healthiest choice is to let them go. But how do you do that with compassion, clarity, and grace?
In this episode, I'm sharing how to recognize when a relationship has run its course, what it means from a soul-growth perspective, and how to navigate endings without blame, shame, or judgment. You'll also learn how to move forward with self-compassion and confidence, even when grief arises.
In this episode, I cover:
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How to tell when a relationship is no longer aligned
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The difference between ego reactions and soul growth
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Steps for ending relationships with compassion and truth
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Why grief is natural, and how to allow it to move through you
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| 0:00.0 | Our souls come in here to learn, experience, and grow. Grow. That means sometimes we're challenged. |
| 0:10.0 | And when we're in empowerment, it's as though our awareness for how we see life expands. |
| 0:17.0 | Our lens for what we're looking at in the world starts to expand. But can it be as simple |
| 0:23.2 | as my soul is ready to part ways and take a different direction, period, end of story? So if I'm not |
| 0:31.5 | aligned with you, that means I'm not on the same wavelength as you. Perhaps it's okay. |
| 0:44.4 | Hello, hello and welcome to the show. I am really excited to be here with all of you today talking about how do we gracefully end relationships. And I'm not, I'm not just talking about partnerships. |
| 0:56.7 | Today we're going to talk about friendships, work, partnerships. |
| 1:02.1 | What if it's even a relationship with a family member? |
| 1:05.7 | There's a lot of people who have asked me this question, like, how do I navigate this ending? |
| 1:10.6 | Like, why is it ending? What do I need to do? How do I navigate this ending like why is it ending what do I need |
| 1:12.6 | to do how do I fix this and today I want to talk to you about this because maybe there's nothing to |
| 1:18.1 | fix maybe it truly is the ending of a relationship the question is how do you do that how do you do that gracefully and what I would call how do you do that from your adult is, how do you do that? How do you do that gracefully? And what I would |
| 1:28.7 | call how do you do that from your adult chair? Like, how do we do that in a healthy way, the |
| 1:33.8 | healthiest way possible? So that's what we're going to be breaking down today. So I first want to |
| 1:41.2 | talk about, like, from the highest level about relationships. |
| 1:47.2 | I firmly believe that we all come together for either an experience and or a learning or growth |
| 1:56.6 | opportunity. So think about that for a moment. Let's think about what those two, let's break those down. |
| 2:01.7 | So we've got an experience, which might be, think about, I'm going to go on a roller coaster, ride, I'm going to go to an amusement park with you. I'm going to go fishing with you. I'm going to go sailing with you. I'm going to go skiing with you. I'm going to go travel with you. Incredible experiences right those are experiences i'm going to travel i'm going to go travel with you. Incredible experiences, right? Those are experiences. |
| 2:18.6 | I'm going to travel. |
| 2:20.0 | I'm going to go surfing with you. |
| 2:21.3 | Whatever the heck it might be. |
| 2:23.0 | Incredible experiences that we can. |
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