This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success podcast.

Slightly growing within me like a thunder breaks a tree.

That little slice of A tree That little slice of sonic gorgeousness is the band Raccoon with the song Bloody You.

A poignant start to our episode together today because we are talking yet again about a tough topic. Today we are tackling commitment issues. It's used, y'all. A lot of couples struggle with us. It can be

incredibly painful on both sides when you're going through it. And so my hope today is that

if this has been a thing for you or somebody, you know,

in your life who's struggling with us, you will leave our time together today with some new ideas

and hopefully actionable ideas that can help you find your way through this. And so let's just

dive right in. Let's dispense with all formalities. We've been through this together.

If you've listened to this show at all before, you'll know I'm Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby. I am the

founder and clinical director of growing self-counseling and coaching. I'm a licensed psychologist.

I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist. I'm a board certified life coach. And I love making

these podcasts for you. I have the best certified life coach. And I love making these podcasts for you.

I have the best time doing this. And I love especially having the opportunity to address topics that I

know are on your mind and also to answer your questions. And this topic in particular is one that

many of you are struggling with. And I know

this because I get a lot of questions about it through Instagram, through our website, growingself.com.

And so here we are today. We are tackling this together. So to set ourselves up for this,

let's just define our terms here for a second. So what do I mean when I'm talking about

commitment issues? And so there are probably different iterations of this. But the one that I hear

about most of the time is a situation like couples, individuals, trying to figure out how to handle it when maybe you want to move

your relationship forward, right? You want to get married, move in together, or even, you know,

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