EP 22: Why do your Relationships Fail: Understanding Repetition Compulsion
Let’s Get Vulnerable: Relationship and Dating Advice
Dr. Morgan Anderson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Would you like to know one of the main reasons why your relationships may be failing over and over?
Do you ever feel like you’re repeating the same pattern over and over again just with a different person? Same relationship, different haircut? Then this episode is for you.
In today’s episode, we explore a theory that Dr. Sigmund Freud called “Repetition Compulsion.” Even though Freud’s theories are from nearly a century ago, many of them are still very relevant today.
In this episode, we do a deep dive on how this theory can help explain why the heck we do what we do in relationships, and why we do it over and over again.
This episode will teach you exactly what Repetition Compulsion is and why understanding it just may help you break any hurtful patterns in your love life. In this episode we will also learn how to apply this theory, and how it relates to Attachment Theory.
Trust me, you don’t want to miss this episode. Tune in and make sure you let me know your takeaways by sending me a DM on Instagram. You must let me know if you’re also a Freud nerd like me!
P.S. It totally makes my day when you screenshot the episode and tag me on IG @drmorgancoaching - I love hearing from you all!!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Let's Get Vulnerable Podcast with me your host Dr Morgan Anderson clinical psychologist relationship |
| 0:16.1 | coach love expert creator of the ESL relationship method and athletic wear connoisseur. My mission is to help you raise |
| 0:27.0 | yourself worth, have great relationships, and step confidently into the next level of your life. |
| 0:34.0 | Each week, two episodes will air |
| 0:36.0 | featuring expert advice, live coaching, |
| 0:40.0 | and tips showing you exactly how to improve your life and attract great relationships. |
| 0:46.0 | You deserve to feel empowered, secure, and loved. |
| 0:51.0 | So buckle up and let's get vulnerable. |
| 0:55.0 | Before we get started, I promised myself that I wouldn't forget to share a very important |
| 1:00.6 | update with you all. |
| 1:02.0 | I have officially reopened my one-on-one coaching and I've |
| 1:07.0 | opened up just five spots to work with me privately and this will be the last opportunity before summer to work with me. Once those |
| 1:17.4 | spots are gone, they're gone. So if you're really serious about getting off the dating roller coaster, you're tired of the games, |
| 1:25.6 | and you're ready to attract a great relationship. |
| 1:28.9 | Go apply now. |
| 1:30.6 | Use the link in my Instagram bio at Dr. Morgan coaching or feel free to send me a |
| 1:37.6 | DM on Instagram letting me know you'd like to apply. What's up y'all? This is going to be a fun episode and you want to know why? |
| 1:47.0 | We're going to talk about a theory that is pretty mind-blowing and this goes all the way back to |
| 1:56.0 | segmented Freud himself and if you're a psych nerd maybe you know a little bit about |
| 2:02.4 | Freud certainly I am I've read |
| 2:05.1 | more of his stuff than any human should probably there was some really crazy things he believed, but there's also some really |
| 2:16.7 | amazing ways that he contributed to the field of clinical psychology. |
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