Can You Be Addicted to Relationships or Fortnite?
In Recovery
Lemonada Media
4.8 • 718 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this round of listener questions, one friend asks about serial monogamy and the pattern she sees in her female friends of hanging on to relationships. A brother wants to know what he can tell his sister about her curtailing her son's Fortnite tantrums. Plus, one woman who doesn't understand why her son would be given Suboxone.
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| 0:44.3 | Hey, y'all, this is Dr. Inzanga Harrison, and I'm your host of In Recovery. |
| 0:55.5 | Thank you for joining us this week. We are doing another Ask Me Anything episode because the questions are pouring in and definitely things that we think could help a lot of you who are listening. |
| 0:59.9 | So keep the questions coming. Claire, should we remind people how to send them in? |
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| 1:19.8 | You can also send us a question through our Google form, which is bit.ly slash in recovery questions. So that's bit.l.ly slash in recovery questions. |
| 1:26.1 | Cool. We're going to try to do these like once a month, but we're not |
| 1:29.6 | making any hardcore promises, okay? Meet us where we are. But here we go. What's the first question, |
| 1:36.9 | Claire? Okay, so the first question is a voicemail from Val. Hey, Dr. Harrison. My name is Val. I'm a big fan of the show. I'm writing in because my friends |
| 1:49.3 | and I are constantly lamenting how many of our amazing female friends are addicted to monogamy, |
| 1:55.2 | so-called serial monogamous. I'm sure you've heard the term before. These are the friends |
| 1:59.6 | who don't feel whole unless they can say they have a significant other, and usually it doesn't matter who. This goes beyond when a girl's friends just don't like her boyfriend or when he encourages codependency. Those are different. Sometimes he is great. Sometimes he's not the problem. Sometimes you can even get the sense that he is the one |
| 2:18.5 | being used. He's a means to an end, and in this case, the end is her mental well-being. |
| 2:24.4 | Relationships usually aren't harmful the way substances can be, but for so many strong, amazing, |
| 2:29.7 | and smart people I know, the idea of being in a relationship is most of what controls them |
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