Ep. 31: You Asked- I Answered: My Trauma Dictated Dating Life

After Hours With Amanda

Education, Self-improvement

5 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

TW: In this episode, I broadly touch on sensitive subjects so I wanted to give you a heads up. So many of you have requested a dating episode speaking specifically to my dating life and experience and as always I wanted to be honest with you.

In this episode, I share how I unknowingly was guided by trauma when it came to dating and how now literally decades later I can see how that directed the relationships I was in before meeting Blake who was the complete opposite THANK GOD! I honestly was so unsure with this episode but eventually ended up deciding to post it. I hope that it encourages you in any way and if you feel it is meant for someone please feel free to share. Also, I have included several hotlines that I hope help if needed. As always; I love you, Happy Humans.

Substance Abuse Hotline- 1-800-662-4357

National Suicide Prevention Hotline- 1-800-273-8255

National Sexual Abuse Hotline- 1-800-656-4673

National Domestic Violence Hotline- 1-800-799-7233

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to another episode of After Hours with Amanda.
0:04.9	The podcast that talks about parenting because that's something that I do, but is about everything.
0:11.2	We have the serotonin we need today.
0:14.5	That's a Coke. I already drank my ass to coffee.
0:17.6	I am convinced that there are two people in life.
0:20.5	There are the people that fill up their gas tank when they get to like half tank and they're kind of running low.
0:25.5	And then there are the people that literally drive into the gas station on fumes.
0:29.4	They've hit zero.
0:30.3	They're under six miles from where they need to be to get to gas.
0:35.6	And then they get gas.
0:36.7	That is me. I am the latter. I am the latter
0:39.5	person. I did not grow up that way. My dad is a person that always believes you should have at least
0:45.3	three-fourths of a tank. Like at any one point, you cannot be below a half a tank. He wants you to
0:51.1	be immediately ready to go. If there is something you need to go do and not
0:54.7	having gas in my car like that stresses him out. I will tell you though, I did not use to be as bad as I
1:01.5	am being married to Blake. I can tell you 100% has made me worse. One thousand percent being
1:07.5	married to Blake has made me worse about this habit because we live a mile and a half
1:12.4	from the nearest gas station. It's like two miles actually. So it's like I can do it. But there has
1:18.3	never been a time in my life. I'm going to tell you right now, there has never been a time in my life
1:22.4	when I get home and I'm like, oh, I'll get gas in the morning. That getting gas in the morning
1:26.8	is not a complete five alarm, fire drill, anxiety panic attack.
1:32.3	I'm going to be late.
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