Am I Betraying Myself By Staying With A Constantly Critical Partner?
Coach Corey Wayne
Coach Corey Wayne
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | Hi, I'm Coach Corey Wayne, and this is my video coaching newsletter, and the topic of today's |
| 0:35.4 | newsletter is going to be, Am I betraying myself by staying |
| 0:39.1 | with a constantly critical partner? Well, obviously, if you have to ask, yes, but you also got to |
| 0:48.6 | remember that no one will ever do or say anything to you that you don't invite them to do. |
| 0:55.2 | Weakness always invites aggression. |
| 0:58.7 | That's just a factoid of life. |
| 1:01.7 | Usually us guys, when we're little boys, we learn that. |
| 1:04.4 | We mouth off. |
| 1:05.6 | And what happens? |
| 1:06.4 | We get punched in the mouth. |
| 1:08.1 | So we realize we shouldn't do that. |
| 1:09.9 | We shouldn't mount off to certain people because we get punched in the mouth. In we realize we shouldn't do that. We shouldn't mount off to certain people |
| 1:11.7 | because we get punched in the mouth. In other words, society has guardrails that will basically |
| 1:18.7 | alter your behavior if you're doing things that are kind of out of sorts. And so whatever you're |
| 1:24.2 | going to tolerate, you're going to invite more of. |
| 1:30.0 | And respect is something that is earned. |
| 1:34.4 | If you don't respect and love and value yourself, nobody else will either. |
| 1:37.7 | And so this particular email is from a woman. |
| 1:40.7 | And so she's been with her boyfriend about three years. |
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