#791 Couple Issues - Erin Valente
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Erin Valente is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT) who gives practical advice for managing issues in your marriage, including moving through divorce. She also opens up about her abusive childhood and the work she’s done to heal, as well as the process of her own divorce.
For more about Erin: www.erinvalentetherapy.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 791 with my guest, Aaron Valenti. My name's Paul Gilmartin, and if you're new to this |
| 0:08.2 | here plays, what do I call it? Podcast. Yeah, that would make, that would make sense. If you're new, |
| 0:15.4 | welcome. I hope you find this to be a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads from medically |
| 0:23.0 | diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative |
| 0:28.8 | thinking. |
| 0:29.5 | And this show is not meant to be. |
| 0:31.6 | That sounds like I'm almost sounds like I'm lecturing you. |
| 0:34.6 | This show's not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling. |
| 0:38.8 | I am not a therapist. But my guest, Aaron Valenti, is. And had a really nice conversation with her. |
| 0:49.0 | This is from the struggle in a sentence survey, and this is filled out by a woman who calls herself, |
| 0:54.9 | You say tomato, I say fuck you. |
| 0:58.0 | Love it. |
| 0:59.4 | About her anxiety, she writes, like my life's musical score is solely the last 90 seconds |
| 1:06.9 | of a level in a Super Mario world. |
| 1:10.4 | Hurried, worried, full of impending doom and certain death. |
| 1:14.7 | If I don't make it to the finish line, but the, if I don't make it to the finish line, |
| 1:19.6 | but the finish line is just the music playing on repeat. |
| 1:23.2 | Oh my God, that is such a good one. |
| 1:25.1 | Thank you for that. |
| 1:26.8 | This is from the comment on someone's survey. |
| 1:31.1 | And this is filled out by a guy who calls himself Bata, B-O-T-T-A, and he writes, |
| 1:36.3 | I'm actually commenting on my own survey. |
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