Ep. 262: 'I'm not ready/able for a relationship right now...'

The Baggage Reclaim Sessions

Natalie Lue

Emotionalunavailability, Health & Fitness, Emotionalintelligence, Emotionalbaggage, Lifeadvice, Mental Health, Happiness, Society & Culture, Psychology, Relationships, Selfesteem, Selfcare, Dating

4.9 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Natalie talks about why it's important to accept and respect it when somebody says that they can't be in a relationship with us. No matter how we feel or them behaving in what we perceive to be relationship-y ways, if actions and words don't match, we've got a problem.

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0:00.0	I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions.
0:08.0	Hello hello. How are you doing?
0:16.6	A quick heads up before I get into today's episode.
0:27.2	Next month, so that's June 18th, 2022 in case you happen to be listening in the future I am going to be recording an episode of this podcast in front of a studio audience in front of a studio audience. Yes people I'm finally doing my first live show. I'm sure
0:39.3	this would have happened if it wasn't for the fact that we've been in this
0:41.8	pandemic for the past couple of years but hey it's finally happening.
0:46.4	What I'm going to be doing is I will
0:50.4	record the episode of the show and then for everybody who was there there's going to be a
0:57.8	Q&A and that Q&A is not going to be part of the show so it's exclusively for those who are in attendance.
1:04.6	I know that we're going to have so much fun. Now I don't have the booking link yet but it will be available by the time the next episode comes out so
1:16.2	we'll be sure to mention it then but in the meantime if you're in or near
1:21.1	London and you love the podcast you love the blog you love what I do I would
1:26.0	absolutely love it if you can come out and support so please do save the date all
1:31.2	right let's get into today's topic. So, picture this. You've hit it off with someone and it feels like there's a mutual attraction and then
1:47.0	they say something that throws a spanners in the works. I'm not ready for a relationship. Maybe they say that they're still getting over a breakup,
1:57.0	that they're focusing on supporting their mental health after a difficult time.
2:02.0	Maybe they've joined a support program for, for example,
2:07.5	addiction and this requires their full attention and commitment, understandably.
2:13.2	Perhaps there's just a lot of stuff going on,
2:16.8	and they feel overwhelmed, and they sense or know
2:20.4	that they just don't have the bandwidth
2:22.2	for a relationship at the moment.
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