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ManTalks Podcast

A Man's Guide To Dating An Anxious Person

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

Relationships, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8591 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Talking points: anxiety, relationships You asked, I answer! The latest Man's Guide, specifically for folks dating someone with anxious attachment or just general anxiousness. I've had a ton of couples come to be asking how to tackle this, so here are the important things to ask yourself, and six points you can work on right away. (00:00:00) - Intro and one of the most important elements to shifting this dynamic (00:03:38) - What role in the dynamic are you playing? It can be hard to admit! (00:06:48) - Signs your partner has a lot of anxiety, and the general impact on you (00:12:33) - Immense amount of empathy for those with anxiety (00:15:18) - So what do you do? On responsibility and regulation (00:21:11) - Don’t personalize the panic, and create some movement (00:25:01) - Pull them back to the present moment, and one powerful question to ask *** Men, the next Men's Weekend is VERY soon. Join us in California for a transformative journey of reclamation. Pick up my book, Men's Work: A Practical Guide To Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, And Find Freedom: https://mantalks.com/mens-work-book/ Check out some free resources: How To Quit Porn | Anger Meditation | How To Lead In Your Relationship Build brotherhood with a powerful group of like-minded men from around the world. Check out The Alliance.  Enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the tools and training they’re looking for. And don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes, visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, you 80,000 marvelous men.

0:09.7

Welcome back to the Man Talk Show.

0:12.7

I say 80,000 because we hit 80,000 subscribers on YouTube, which is absolutely phenomenal.

0:19.5

Thank you so much for everybody that is a part of the

0:22.0

audience and community. And thank you for everybody that tunes into the podcast on Spotify or Apple

0:26.9

or wherever you tuning into it on. We have now hundreds and hundreds of thousands of downloads

0:31.6

a month, and that is blowing my mind. So thank you so much for being a part of this community

0:36.8

and this conversation. Let's dive into the day's topic. What do you so much for being a part of this community and this conversation.

0:38.3

Let's dive into the day's topic. What do you do? How do you handle dating a anxious woman?

0:45.0

This is a question that I have had a lot. And for those of you that are out there, for those

0:50.0

guys that you are out there that are not dating a woman, but you have an anxious man or a partner

0:53.5

in your life. Everything I am about to say applies to you. So do not check out or tune

0:58.5

out because this is still going to apply to you. So how do you deal? How do you navigate with a partner

1:03.8

who has a very anxious attachment or they're just an anxious person to begin with? Here's the big

1:09.4

thing I want you to know straight out of the gates,

1:11.0

one of the most important elements to undoing this dynamic. People with a lot of anxiety,

1:18.8

they will generally attract people that create a classic overfunctioning and underfunctioning

1:26.4

dynamic. I've seen this in pretty much every

1:29.9

relationship where one person is more secure, more grounded, more calm, and the other one is

1:37.0

more anxious. So one person might be the overfunctioning one, and the other one will be the

1:43.5

underfunctioning one. And it doesn't

1:46.1

have to be, it's not like the anxious person is always the overfunctioner or always the underfunctioner.

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