It's really common to have different attachment styles to each caregiver in your life, you know, parent or otherwise.

You know, you might have an anxious or more disorganized attachment style to one parent and a very secure one to the other.

Hey 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 and consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations.

So please use your best judgment.

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 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.

I also need to say that while I am a psychologist, I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist.

This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. All varieties. This is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode

277. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make

mental health content for real people just like you. And today I have a

question-and-answer episode. Both of these questions are basically related to relationships.

One's going to be about co-parenting, one's going to be about a partner with depression issues.

So that's kind of the vibe of this episode.

Before I get into it, I wanted to talk about something.

This is related to like my personal life in real life.

It's also, you know, related to like cultural, social, political

things. So if you don't want to hear anything about that, just fast forward a few, you know, jump

forward a few 30 second bursts and see if I'm to the questions but I do

want to talk about it a little bit. So my oldest son Remy he's five and he's in

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