Ep. 145 - I'm a complete failure
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
As a society we have gotten used to using the word "failed" when speaking about a completed marriage or relationship. This has led many of my Bravehearts to believe that the ending of their relationship means "they are a failure". No matter how many completed relationships you've had, telling yourself you're a failure won't get you closer to the kind of relationship you actually want.
In today's episode:
- Learn why your divorce/breakup doesn't mean you're a failure
- Understand what a divorce/breakup actually means about you
- Become someone who changes the narrative around divorce/breakups
Cool article about the history of marriage sited in the episode: https://www.livescience.com/37777-history-of-marriage.html
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex episode number 145. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm a complete failure. |
| 0:10.6 | Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. |
| 0:25.1 | Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:31.1 | Hello, my beautiful brave hearts. |
| 0:33.3 | How is everyone doing? |
| 0:35.1 | I hope you are doing so well. |
| 0:37.5 | Today I want to talk to all of you about a topic, actually, that came up inside of the |
| 0:44.3 | Get Over Your X program. |
| 0:45.9 | There was a beautiful Braveheart who was just really struggling with this accepting of |
| 0:52.5 | her situation. |
| 0:56.3 | And her situation was the fact that she was going through her third divorce. And what she was really making it mean was that she was a failure. Now, |
| 1:03.8 | I know that she's not the only one thinking that she's a failure because of a completed |
| 1:09.8 | relationship, no matter whether you |
| 1:12.5 | were in a marriage and you're going through a divorce or maybe it's your first or second divorce, |
| 1:17.0 | it doesn't really matter. A lot of us come up with this idea that we have failed in some way, |
| 1:22.9 | shape, or form. Right? We've all been there, even to the point of I feel like I'm failing at life. |
| 1:30.5 | So whether you're in a long term or you were in a long term relationship that ended or maybe a |
| 1:36.1 | short term fling or you're going through a divorce, making something mean like the completion |
| 1:43.2 | of a relationship, making that mean that you're a total |
| 1:45.6 | failure is not helpful but it's oftentimes one of the most default thought patterns that comes up |
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