EP 556: The Truth About Getting Married After Healing: Grief, Growth & Secure Love

Let’s Get Vulnerable: Relationship and Dating Advice

Dr. Morgan Anderson

Mental Health, Relationships, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We’re getting extra vulnerable on the pod today. I’m opening up about my current season of life: 60 Days away from saying I-Do to the love of my life!

This chapter of my life leading up to marriage has tested me in ways I didn’t expect.

But through it all, I’ve never felt more grounded — because I’ve done the work to become securely attached.

In this episode, I’m sharing what it really looks like to walk into marriage after relational trauma, and why becoming securely attached is the foundation that makes everything else possible.

Inside the episode, I open up about:

Grieving friendships and family relationships (people I always thought would be part of my big day but are no longer in my life)
Navigating financial conversations and emotional triggers during wedding planning
Releasing shame around my timeline and embracing my body exactly as it is

If you’re ready to stop repeating old patterns and finally feel safe in love, I have a special invitation for you.

We have just 5 Spots left inside the Empowered.Secure.Loved Relationship Program. This is your opportunity to finally rewire your brain for secure attachment.

Apply to the Empowered.Secure.Loved. Relationship Program Today to Start Attracting Healthy Love

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Let's Get Vulnerable podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Morgan Anderson, psychologist, relationship coach, attachment theory expert, creator of the ESL relationship method, author of Love Magnet and Athletic Wear Connoisseur. My mission is to help you raise yourself worth, have great relationships, and step confidently into the next level of your life.
0:22.3	Each week, two episodes will air featuring expert advice, live coaching, and tips, showing you
0:28.4	exactly how to improve your life and attract a healthy relationship. You deserve to feel empowered,
0:34.8	secure, and love. Buckle up and Let's Get Vulnerable.
0:41.7	Welcome to the Let's Get Vulnerable podcast.
0:44.4	I'm your host, Dr. Morgan, and today's episode is a vulnerable one.
0:49.5	From my heart to you, I am going to open up about where I'm at in my journey towards saying I do. I can't
0:59.8	believe it. How is it? 60 days. My gosh, I am so excited. I have just been rewriting this narrative that
1:07.7	wedding planning has to be stressful. I've been finding ways to enjoy it and really just
1:14.1	kind of savor the moments of picking out the cupcakes, picking out the flowers, picking out all the
1:23.5	outfits, right? I am just so grateful that I've been able to be present during this process.
1:30.6	It's been enjoyable. And I feel very supported. And I know how rare it is to have a partner
1:38.6	that is with you in this process. I feel like the stereotype is that the woman does everything.
1:45.5	That is not the case in this process. I feel like the stereotype is that the woman does everything. That is not the case in my relationship. My fiance is actively involved. And I think it's a testament to the type of
1:53.3	relationship that we have, the type of marriage that we will have. We are partners. And he's been
2:00.7	helping a lot with picking the food. That was, of course,
2:04.7	his favorite thing. But just honestly, the emotional support, the accountability, he has been with
2:10.5	me every step of the way. I'm so grateful to have a partner that shows up that way and that doesn't say like, oh,
2:19.3	that's for you to figure out. He's like, no, we're in this together. Let's do it together.
2:24.7	And whether or not he's excited about the flower arrangements, he obviously has less
2:33.6	preferences than I do. but he still shows up with being present and
2:41.4	treating things with importance when I bring them up to him, even if it's not his favorite thing.
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