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Bare Marriage

Episode 23: Emotional Needs and Emotional Affairs

Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

Society & Culture, Science, Christianity, Advice, Family, Social Sciences, Mother, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Sex, Marriage, Wife

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Today I continue my conversation from the blog about the importance of identifying your and your spouse's emotional needs, and I get into how it can help you resolve conflict. I also address a reader question about how to move forward when you have had an emotional affair with someone outside your marriage, and I also give my boardgame recommendations! Find the link to the emotional needs download, the board game post, and more right here! Support the show Join Sheila at Bare...

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0:00.0

Why are you always so needy?

0:15.0

Welcome to the to Love Honor and Vacuum podcast.

0:17.5

I'm Sheila Ray Greguar, your host from to love honor and vacuum.

0:21.0

com where we like to talk about how to make marriage less of a

0:23.9

to-do list and more of a passionate adventure.

0:26.6

And today I want to talk about that question.

0:29.9

Why is it that so often we feel like our spouses are so terribly needy or that they feel that

0:37.1

we are so terribly needy?

0:40.4

We all have emotional needs, things that we just need in order to feel emotionally

0:46.4

healthy and complete all of us have that it's not a bad thing emotions are good things and so today I want to look at how we can help fill up our

0:56.8

spouses love tank, like how we can help them feel as if their emotional needs are getting

1:02.0

met.

1:03.0

And then I also want to look at how this understanding of emotional needs

1:07.0

can be used to help us resolve conflict.

1:10.0

I was talking about this this week on the blog.

1:12.0

We're trying to get super practical in the month of June

1:15.4

and look at specific things that we can do to help feel closer in our marriage, just little things

1:20.7

that we can incorporate into our lives which can help us feel

1:23.8

close because what often happens is that this drift starts and often that drift

1:28.8

is just from basic misunderstandings but because you feel misunderstood, the heart of misunderstanding

1:36.8

often is that we feel unloved.

1:39.1

When your spouse doesn't understand you, when your spouse attributes things to you that you didn't really mean, when your spouse

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