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The Angry Therapist Podcast

6 Relationship Myths

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

After reading a blog post by Esther Perel, John has come up with 6 relationship myths he has come across.




John's 6 relationship myths




1. If the sex isn't good the relationship isn't good


2. Once a cheater always a cheater


3. Your partner is your best friend


4. Fighting is a sign that something is wrong


5. People in a relationship don't flirt


6. Everything doesn't have to be revealed or told




Here's a link to the original post, https://www.estherperel.com/blog/5-myths-we-tell-ourselves-when-were-dating




Roughly ten minutes of self help in a shot glass. If you're looking for a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place. Marriage family therapist and best selling author, John Kim, shares his life and love revelations as well as insights from his sessions. He pulls the curtain back and documents his journey as a therapist but more importantly, as a human being.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own rebirth many years ago

0:05.6

and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life lessons and revelations.

0:10.4

I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose

0:16.4

because self-health doesn't have to be so complicated.

0:21.1

So I came across an Esther Perrell post that I thought was really interesting.

0:27.0

Definitely brought some stuff up for me and so that's why I'm turning it into an episode.

0:32.0

Esther Perrell, I love her stuff because

0:35.8

challenging, it's thought-provoking, you know, it's a little bit in your face and

0:40.4

whether you agree with what she says or not,

0:43.4

I think what's important is that your beliefs,

0:47.7

your definitions about love and relationships

0:49.9

and fidelity, all of that is challenge, right? And it's usually in the challenging of something that we can do definitions and

1:00.0

even after we're challenged, if we are holding on to old definitions, that's fair.

1:07.5

But if you look at it,

1:15.0

it, instead of you look inward and you are get, you get

1:18.0

about it instead of judging it,

1:20.0

the practice of letting go of old blueprints, the practice of challenging your old definitions,

1:28.6

your current definitions, I think it's always a good thing because I think that's how you plow the soil.

1:37.0

Plow the growth soil.

1:39.5

You know what it is?

1:40.5

It's what's that shit that you put on grass to make it grow?

1:46.0

Super grow?

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