#596 Love Avoidance - Rebecca D
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2022
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca D is a friend from Paul’s support group. She opens up about her experience with covert incest (a father who treated her like his “wingman” when he was dating or weighing a woman’s attractiveness), her love-avoidant behavior, and her addictions to fantasy and marijuana.
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| 0:00.0 | Miss Fit toys. |
| 0:02.6 | Welcome to episode 596 with my guest Rebecca D. I am Paul Gilmarten. |
| 0:07.8 | This is the metal illness happy hour. |
| 0:09.2 | A place for honesty about all the bullshit banging around in our domes. |
| 0:14.7 | I thought I'd mix it up. |
| 0:16.5 | Normally I say skull. |
| 0:19.0 | This shows not meant to be substitute for professional metal counseling. |
| 0:22.4 | I am not a therapist. |
| 0:24.8 | I just came from my Thursday night support group and the topic was on the traditions at |
| 0:36.3 | this meeting that we have and other meetings like them. |
| 0:40.6 | They were put in place because when support groups started or at least these types of support |
| 0:47.2 | groups, it became apparent very early on. |
| 0:53.6 | This is 70, 80 years ago, maybe longer that people wanted to find help and people wanted |
| 1:03.8 | to help other people. |
| 1:06.6 | But fucked up people trying to help fucked up people. |
| 1:11.2 | Shits are going to get fucked up. |
| 1:14.3 | And so they slowly realized we need some guidelines to kind of help keep people in a space |
| 1:22.3 | where they get along so that this whole thing doesn't explode. |
| 1:28.0 | And I was really, really got me thinking about the balance between love and control. |
| 1:36.1 | You know what? |
| 1:38.2 | Loving people seems easy on the surface. |
| 1:41.8 | And I suppose it is if we can let go of our idea of how they're supposed to act. |
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