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🗓️ 29 November 2024
⏱️ 112 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, just over and listeners, I thought I would answer some patron emails. |
0:04.3 | This first email is from anonymous middle tier patron and YouTube member. |
0:09.7 | She writes, I recently started couple therapy with my husband. |
0:14.3 | Thank you for calling it couple therapy, by the way. |
0:16.6 | I recently started a couple therapy with my husband, and our therapist helped identify |
0:21.4 | that my husband was emotionally abusing me. |
0:26.4 | I'm trying to get better at setting boundaries and naming the abuse as it is happening, |
0:32.6 | but I often feel worried that I'm being overly critical of him and calling something abuse when |
0:39.0 | it is not. Can you help clarify what is and isn't considered emotional abuse? Some things |
0:46.9 | like criticism or blame shifting are easier for me to spot, but many are more subtle. |
0:55.0 | Here are some examples. |
0:57.6 | Boundary violations. |
0:59.4 | For example, tickling me while we're laying in bed after I've consistently asked him not to over the past several years. |
1:09.0 | Shaming in here. |
1:10.1 | Yeah, that's kind of a classic, abusive sign in that you've asked him several times to not |
1:20.1 | tickle you in this way. |
1:21.2 | Now, I don't know, maybe if I were there, I would see that you actually want to be tickled, |
1:28.4 | meaning that you're tickling him and he is just responding |
1:33.0 | and you're just overreacting |
1:34.3 | because you don't like it when it happens to you or something. |
1:36.9 | But I'm gonna take a guess to say that |
1:38.9 | if you're in a couple therapy |
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