Welcome to the Therapy for Black Girls Podcast, a weekly conversation about mental health,

personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible

versions of ourselves.

I'm your host, Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia.

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And while I hope you love listening to and learning from the podcast, it is not meant

to be a substitute for a relationship with a licensed mental health professional.

Hey y'all, thanks so much for joining me for session 84 of the Therapy for Black Girls

Podcast.

In the past week or so, I've seen a couple of videos, memes, and discussions that have

truly just gotten on my nerves.

I'm really tired of so many different people trying to tell sisters what we need to do

to get a partner, how we should be in a partnership, and all of the things that we're doing wrong,

and that's why we can't find a partner.

I'm trying to make this therapeutic for y'all, but truthfully, this may be a little bit

more like a rant.

Because not only am I bothered by seeing people push these kinds of narratives on us, I'm

really saddened when I see sisters buying into and internalizing some of these messages.

So I just want to offer you seven things to consider so that you can make your own decisions

about relationships.

Number one, you are not responsible for raising or rehabbing your partner.

So there be some things that both of you struggle with and can help each other with during

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