You're listening to On Attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience relationships

and where you'll gain the guidance, knowledge and practical tools to overcome insecurity and build healthy, thriving relationships.

I'm your host, relationship coach Stephanie Rigg,

and I'm really glad you're here.

Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of On Attachment. In today's episode, I'm going to be

sharing with you five questions to ask to assess the emotional health of your

relationship. So this is going to be diving into some of the hallmarks of emotional safety,

emotional well-being, and we could say emotional green flags insofar as your connection with your

partner is concerned. I think a really important thing to foreground at the outset is first that

this topic is not intended for people who are in abusive situations or unsafe situations.

If that is the situation you're in, I really encourage you to seek support. That's not,

you know, something that I can speak to in a podcast episode. It's not

the scope of my work. So please take good care of yourself and be discerning if that's you.

Outside of that situation, please know that if you fall on what we might call the wrong side

of the line in terms of the questions that I'm going to

pose to you today, meaning that you feel like you have a lot of room for improvement on the

emotional health front, know that that doesn't mean that you are doomed, that your relationship

is terminal, that you are in a toxic dynamic, any of those things that might

feel stressful to realize, I would encourage you instead to take it as in a room for improvement

areas for growth, things to focus on cultivating. Because the unfortunate reality is many of us, dare I say,

most of us without the knowledge and the tools, will have had experiences with these

less than perfect emotional safety kind of situations as we'll get into shortly.

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