520 - Do You Treat Your Partner Worse Than You Treat Your Friends?

Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

Multiamory, LLC

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

4.9 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Today we're chatting about romantic relationships, friendships, and the ways we often treat the two differently. Why do we think of our romantic partners as our most intimate and important connections, and yet sometimes don't treat them with the same respect and kindness we do our friends? We'll be talking about why we tend to do this and how we can foster more understanding in romantic relationships. Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episodes, group video discussions, and our amazing Discord community. Get 10% off our private, discreet STD tests at https://www.stdhero.com when you use promo code MULTI10 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	After a very long wait, we finally have an audiobook version of our book, Multie Emery Essential Tools for Modern Relationships, read by yours truly.
0:10.1	And if you're looking for an easy way to learn and share our most popular communication tools, we have a book in print form and in audiobook form now.
0:19.2	Multi-Amory Essential Tools for Modern Relations relationships is a collection of our most popular tools
0:24.1	compiled with real-world examples, worksheets, discussion questions, and more.
0:28.8	This is a compilation of all the tools that we reference the most often, like Radar,
0:32.9	the Triforce of Communication, Repair Shop, and more.
0:35.7	If you've ever wanted to be able to re-reference one of these
0:38.7	tools without having to dig through 500 back catalog episodes, getting our book or getting the
0:43.7	audio version is a great way to do that. You can buy our new audiobook on Audible, Spotify, Google
0:49.5	Play, or wherever you get your audiobooks. And the print and ebook versions are available from all booksellers.
0:56.5	Learn more, read reviews, and get links to purchase at multiamery.com slash book.
1:05.7	I think that with our romantic partnerships, there can also be this sense of identity collapse.
1:11.6	And I do think that, of course, the more enmeshed and the more codependent you are, the easier this is, it's easy for this to occur.
1:18.6	But, you know, we see a romantic partner as an extension of ourselves.
1:22.6	We can come to identify with couplehood with this other person in a way that we may not necessarily with friends.
1:28.3	And I think that's why anything they do that can upset us or get under our skin can feel that
1:34.7	much more intense and spicy because there's a little bit of this collapsing ourselves into this other
1:40.7	person. And therefore, when they act in a way we don't like, that can feel much more
1:44.3	threatening to our sense of self.
1:47.1	Welcome to the Multiamery Podcast.
1:50.0	I'm Jace.
1:51.0	I'm Emily.
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