Ep. 57: WDWBU #7 Save You, Save Me
The Baggage Reclaim Sessions
Natalie Lue
4.9 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2016
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Why Did We Break Up? is back! In this episode, Hannah felt guilty about having fallen for her engaged co-worker and living a lie, so she broke it off with her boyfriend of four years. Her co-worker, Joe, didn't follow suit and so began four months of deep pain, lies and confusion which culminated in her ending it when she found out that he was going on holiday with the fiancé he claimed to no longer love. Feeling strung along, lied to and betrayed, she wants to know, Why did we break up?
Links mentioned in the show
- About activation http://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/activation-when-someone-or-something-activates-old-issues/ and http://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/intensity-isnt-the-same-as-intimacy/
- About being over-responsible Episode 33 and http://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/giving-up-the-role-of-being-over-responsible plus http://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/advice-wednesday-i-tried-to-rescue-him-from-his-unfair-open-relationship-he-went-back-to-her
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to episode 57 of the baggage reclaim sessions and it's time for an |
| 0:05.1 | addition of why did we break up. I'm your host Natalie Lou, author of baggage |
| 0:11.2 | reclaim.com where I help people to offload the shady relationships and emotional |
| 0:15.9 | baggage that block healthy self-esteem and loving relationships. |
| 0:19.3 | Hello there, it's good to be back with a new episode of Why Did We Break Up. |
| 0:26.0 | The podcast where I explore real break-ups and the relationships behind them |
| 0:31.0 | so that the stock party can begin to gain closure, but it's also to help |
| 0:35.6 | anyone who has ever felt that they've loved and lost to look at relationships from a |
| 0:40.5 | more compassionate place. I ask every person who takes part in this show. |
| 0:46.0 | If you could tell somebody in one sentence why the relationship didn't work and why you broke up, |
| 0:52.0 | what would you say? |
| 0:53.2 | I feel like our whole relationship was based on lies and betrayal. |
| 0:57.4 | I've always been so consistent with my feelings towards him and he has been the opposite. |
| 1:01.4 | It's true that the relationship is indeed based on lies and betrayal, |
| 1:07.0 | which not only cripples a relationship, |
| 1:09.0 | but can be incredibly damaging to our well-being, |
| 1:12.0 | particularly our emotional and mental health, which then spins off into our physical health. |
| 1:18.8 | What we do have to recognize though in any relationship with with deception is that when we focus |
| 1:24.8 | purely on the other person's lies in betrayal we failed to acknowledge where we |
| 1:30.0 | have lied to and betrayed ourselves. |
| 1:34.0 | Hannah 25 was in what she describes as a safe and comfortable four-year relationship |
| 1:39.0 | when she became involved with Joe 31, her engaged co-worker. Both of them were living with their respective partners at the time. |
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