E301 Dr. Alexandra Solomon - A Clinical Look At The Break - Up of Katie & Greg

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Nick Viall

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4 • 24.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Welcome to a bonus episode of The Viall Files. Today we are joined by Dr. Alexandra Solomon. Over the last two decades, Dr. Alexandra H. Solomon has become one of today’s most trusted voices in the world of relationships, and her work on Relational Self-Awareness has reached millions of people around the world. Dr. Solomon is a licensed clinical psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, and she is on faculty in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University where she teaches the internationally renowned course, Building Loving and Lasting Relationships: Marriage 101. In addition to writing articles and chapters for leading academic journals and books in the field of marriage and family, she is the author of two bestselling books, Loving Bravely and Taking Sexy Back. Dr. Solomon regularly presents to diverse groups that include the United States Military Academy at West Point and Microsoft, and she is frequently asked to talk about relationships with media outlets like The Today Show, O Magazine, The Atlantic, Vogue, and Scientific American.

On this episode Dr. Soloman clinically breaks down the fight between Katie and Greg, while discussing gaslighting and emotional abuse. She helps us to understand whether we saw these actions on screen and why it might be triggering to so many watching at home.

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0:00.0	What's going on everybody welcome back to what is literally a special episode of the
0:19.9	Vile Files because we have never done a kind of auto sequence episode if you will.
0:26.8	We're dropping this on a non normal day so by definition truly truly special and the reason
0:34.2	we wanted to do this is because there has been so many discussions regarding last Monday's
0:42.6	episode of the Batcharat specifically centered around the breakup between Greg and Katie and
0:50.4	you know we've recapped it we've discussed it and since then I've seen really just so
0:58.2	many different reactions on both sides of the fence if you will and there seems to be
1:05.6	a lot of emotion attached to this this episode and I've seen articles I've seen on discussions
1:14.4	I've had people DM me in terms of sharing their personal experiences and how what they saw
1:22.7	triggered them as they mentioned and you know with people who found this episode to be frustrating
1:33.7	I've seen accusations and comments around things like emotional manipulation, emotional abuse
1:42.1	there's been a lot of conversations around gaslighting we even saw Katie on Tuesday morning
1:50.1	post in her Instagram story I guess an Instagram post on gaslighting what it was and it was
1:58.9	just kind of a cryptic post but certainly seems like she also felt at least watching it back
2:06.7	like there might have been some gaslighting then and there's a lot of conversations again
2:11.1	out there from people who aren't experts and as you guys know I'm always quick to mention
2:16.2	that I'm not an expert when it comes to giving my two cents about people's relationship struggles
2:21.6	so I thought it'd be really helpful to bring on an expert someone who does this for a living
2:28.6	and have a discussion about this episode and break down this breakup as it relates to
2:35.7	some of the conversations going out there and some of the accusations because it's very
2:40.4	serious accusation discuss things like emotional abuse and gaslighting and we've had the pleasure
2:46.4	of having Dr. Solomon on our podcast before and she is so gracious to come back on and
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