Episode 271: Pathological Love Relationships with Dr. Sarah Schewitz
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Sarah Schewitz returns to the podcast to talk about pathological love relationships. Dr. Schewitz helps us understand what this type of relationship is, how to know if you're in one, why these types of relationships can be so devastating, and what is necessary to recover and heal.
Dr. Sarah Schewitz is a licensed psychologist specializing in love and relationships. She is the founder of the successful online psychology practice, Couples Learn, which was named by Forbes Health as one of the top 3 online marriage counseling services in 2023. She specializes in healing attachment trauma, understanding the impact of childhood wounds on your relationships, helping couples transform their communication, and rebuilding trust after betrayal.
Featured topics:
- Dr. Schewitz answers, "What is a pathological love relationship [PLR]?" and describes the four identifiers of a PLR (11:18)
- Signs and red flags that you might be in a pathological love relationship (13:19)
- The five personality traits of victims who most often are susceptible to this type of relationship (18:42)
- Why it is necessary to seek out a trauma-informed and educated therapist to aid you in recovery (33:32)
- Healing from traumatic PLR oftentimes requires a somatic therapy approach (36:06)
Learn more about Dr. Sarah Schewitz:
Dr. Sarah Schewitz is a licensed psychologist specializing in love & relationships. She is the founder of the successful online psychology practice, Couples Learn, which was named by Forbes Health as one of the top 3 online marriage counseling services in 2023. She specializes in healing attachment trauma, understanding the impact of childhood wounds on your relationships, helping couples transform their communication, and rebuilding trust after betrayal. Dr. Sarah and Couples Learn have been featured on CNN, The Washington Post, Women's Health, Bravo TV, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of |
| 0:23.3 | the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to |
| 0:29.1 | hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process |
| 0:35.1 | with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:46.8 | Welcome back. |
| 0:48.8 | So I just want to thank everybody for your responses to the survey that I included in the little bonus episode |
| 0:56.2 | that I did this week about the closing of the Facebook group. You guys had a lot of great feedback |
| 1:02.8 | and things to say and suggestions and percolating all of this. Unfortunately, most of your |
| 1:09.1 | suggestions were things that we have done in the |
| 1:11.1 | past or like turning on post approval. We did that. It literally requires someone to sit there |
| 1:17.8 | 24-7 to do that because it did not slow down the number of posts. So, you know, all of the |
| 1:24.4 | suggestions that you made, not all of them, but many of them we were |
| 1:29.4 | implementing or had implemented. So anyway, again, I appreciate all of your suggestions. And, you know, |
| 1:39.8 | mostly I appreciate your words of support and love and understanding for having made the |
| 1:48.4 | decision that I did. |
| 1:49.8 | I really appreciate it. |
| 1:51.3 | That's all. |
| 1:51.7 | So moving on to today's episode, pathological love relationships. |
| 2:01.0 | Dr. Sarah Shevitz returns to the show today, and she helps us understand what a |
| 2:08.9 | pathological love relationship is, how to know if you're in one, and why these types of |
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