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Relationship School Podcast

Coaching Someone Whose Partner Isn’t Doing the Work

Relationship School Podcast

Jayson Gaddis

Relationships, Relationshippodcast, Sex, Relationshipadvice, Society & Culture, Jaysongaddispodcast, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6981 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

How should you coach someone whose partner isn’t doing the work? Jayson breaks it down. How should coaches and therapists get their clients to focus on themselves? Should clients leave or stay with an impossible person? Why is it so important for clients to have their feelings validated? How can you help your clients take responsibility for not speaking up? Don’t miss this insightful look at a difficult situation.

Timestamps:

  • 1:18 - Coaching someone whose partner isn’t doing the work
  • 4:47 - Getting clients to focus on themselves
  • 8:47 - Staying with an impossible person
  • 10:35 - Leaving an impossible person
  • 15:00 - You need to have your feelings validated
  • 20:35 - Helping clients feel the sharp edge of the knife
  • 24:00 - Why do clients get defensive about the partner they’re criticizing?
  • 25:00 - Coaching your client to ask their partner to change
  • 31:21 - Helping your clients take responsibility for not speaking up

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey and welcome back to the Relationship Coaching School podcast.

0:05.8

Your host here, Jason Gattis.

0:09.0

What's up?

0:10.1

How are we doing today?

0:12.3

All right.

0:13.1

You're here because you're a coach therapist or want to be one.

0:16.9

You are some kind of practitioner or you're a client of coaching and therapy, and you want to

0:21.6

learn how to get better results as a client. Either way, my job is to help you transform.

0:30.1

Prior to episode 513, 512 episodes were about relationship advice. Everything beyond episode 513, 512 episodes were about relationship advice.

0:39.4

Everything beyond episode 512 is advice for coaches, therapists, and healers, and clients.

0:48.7

All in the category of relationships.

0:55.7

So this is what I'm about in my life.

0:59.8

What I live for and what I'm good at

1:02.9

and at times what I suck at.

1:06.3

So I'm trying to always improve my own skill set. And so I teach what I need to learn, right?

1:14.9

And I've learned a lot along the way from many amazing people. And I'm sharing it with you.

1:20.7

All right, let's get into it. Today, I'm going to talk about how to coach someone who feels

1:24.5

like their partner isn't doing the work or their partner isn't on board.

1:31.0

So I'm going to give you some ideas on how to work with this type of client.

1:35.9

Because if you're a relationship coach or you're a therapist dealing with any kind of relationship issue

1:43.6

and you're working with an individual,

1:45.3

not a couple, an individual. So this is for individuals. They will come in and complain about

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