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You don't win an argument with your wife. You never win that. Part of your defensive mechanism

and your pride is going to be, well, this time for sure.

Sometimes, though. Yeah. Yeah, well, it's convenient when that's the case.

What's some advice that you could give a man my age on how best you integrate or maybe conquer

the ghosts of past relationships? The core of the question was, what can I do to ensure that I'm not dragging the past into the future?

Understand the past. Understand the past. There will be times when you or your partner were betrayed in the past.

By yourself, by someone else, it doesn't matter. There's a betrayal. And then when I suggest that it's you, you're going to get defensive. Partly because you don't want it to be you, and partly because there's a part of you that knows that there's something underneath that that's going to be very unpleasant to uncover. You also have to allow your partner to do a good thing badly. When they first start to listen, when they first start to help

and untangle, you got to let them flail them out a fair bit. People will often do something difficult

twice. Go on a date, for example, when they haven't been with each other for a long time. It won't go

well and they'll think, well, we're certainly not doing that again. That happens to people. Then they

don't have any romance for decades. That is

not wise. That's not wise. In this episode, we're talking about marriage and relationships.

So that should be interesting. Fortunately, my husband doesn't watch anything I do.

So first on the line, John in Chicago. Hi, John. Hi, Dr. Peterson. Thank you for having me on the show.

Yeah, thanks for offering. I'm 53 years old. I've been divorced for about nine years. During those nine years, I've

purposely devoted a very substantial portion of my time, effort and attention to my son,

and his predisposition for acting. Recently, at the urging of my highly extroverted 17-year-old son,

and after quite a bit of thought and feelings of terror on my part, I took his advice and

started dating. Thankfully, after taking that step, I've started dating a rather fantastic woman.

During the adventure of our five-month relationship, I've seriously discovered the importance

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