Episode 276: Wife Doesn't Care Anymore & Healing Hurts Too Much
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! Super happy to bring you this Q&A episode today. I take the following questions:
- What can I do when it feels like my wife doesn't care about me anymore?
- Is there a point where the cost of healing just isn't worth it?
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and get show notes at http://duffthepsych.com/episode276
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| 0:00.0 | if somebody had cancer and they knew that they would be going into, you know, chemotherapy, |
| 0:04.6 | they would make plans for that, you know, they would maybe have family members help them out with meals, |
| 0:09.3 | they would, you know, lessen the burden if they still have to work for some reason child care things like that |
| 0:14.6 | they would plan for that and this is just like emotional chemo honestly hey |
| 0:19.6 | everybody before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general and some of those could be sensitive for you. I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect |
| 0:35.2 | and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:37.2 | So please use your best judgment. |
| 0:38.9 | I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel free to feel it out, check out the |
| 0:44.6 | episode and just see what happens. If you need to skip, that's okay, but you know, feel free to give it a shot first. |
| 0:50.1 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:54.8 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a |
| 0:58.6 | substitute for professional help. So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All right. |
| 1:20.0 | Hello friends of all varieties. This is the hardcore self-held |
| 1:23.3 | podcast episode 276. I'm your host Dr Robert Duff, aka Duff the psych. I make |
| 1:29.2 | mental health content for real people just like you and you too and you as well I guess. Anyway today I |
| 1:36.9 | have a question and answer for you I wanted to give a huge thank you to anybody that, you know, knows me in person or, you know, is directly connected to me or follows me on social media who sent me some love. |
| 1:50.0 | Yesterday, yesterday as I'm recording this, the 27th was my birthday and I didn't have you |
| 1:56.8 | know a big hoop law and a bunch of events planned around that but it was a |
| 2:01.6 | really good day and a lot of you guys showed me some love and just you |
| 2:04.5 | know reached out and gave comments or messages and it means a whole lot to me so if you |
| 2:09.2 | if you did that or even if you didn't it's all good but I really really |
| 2:12.2 | really appreciate you guys and thank you for putting a smile on my face. |
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