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🗓️ 6 January 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey deserving of the listeners, I'm going to answer as many patron emails as I possibly can in an hour. |
0:06.0 | This first email is from anonymous-upitier patron, they write, |
0:09.5 | How do you deal with someone who has been cheated on and they think constantly that you're |
0:13.8 | cheating on them? How do you deal with them constantly asking you questions, accusing you of |
0:18.4 | cheating on them? My husband asks me very very often, every day sometimes. I want to know how to help him deal with it. End of email. |
0:28.0 | Well, I don't know your husband. I don't know why he would do that. Someone would have to assess him but a main hypothesis to pursue |
0:35.8 | is that he suffers from preoccupied attachment meaning that his early childhood |
0:42.0 | was difficult attachment wise and as a result he copes with that |
0:48.0 | difficulty early in life by being extremely anxious about losing people who are close to him. |
0:55.0 | Basically, when some people are young, they learn that in order to retain some closeness |
1:01.2 | with their loved ones, they have to be in a constant hyper aroused state |
1:07.4 | assuming that the other person is about to leave. |
1:10.9 | Because if they don't have that hypervigilance, then the attachment figure will |
1:17.6 | drift away and they will be alone. So they're in a constant state of worrying. It's sort of like you're walking on a high |
1:25.8 | wire and you're balancing there. And you know that if you take your eye off of the wire or you stop concentrating on balancing, |
1:36.3 | you're going to fall. |
1:37.9 | And that might have happened many times to you, right? |
1:39.9 | You're on the tight wire, high wire act, and you start to get a little distracted and then you |
1:45.6 | fall and you hurt yourself and then you get back up there and you say, okay, make sure you |
1:49.8 | concentrate all the time. Do not stop concentrating. Well that's what preoccupation is like. |
1:56.2 | When you're two years old, three years old, four years old, you learn stay focused on your parents, |
2:02.2 | stay focused on your parents. Stay focused on your caregivers. |
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