Episode 295: Dating After Abuse & Healing from Cheating
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! I hope that you are caring well for your hearts this week. It's wild out there. Here are the questions I cover in this week's episode:
- My history of sexual abuse makes dating complicated. How can I move forward?
- My husband cheated on me but doesn't want to do couples therapy. How can I stop resenting him?
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes at http://duffthepsych.com/episode295
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| 0:00.0 | So the fact that he was offering you know your limited resources at the time to other people |
| 0:05.6 | especially during a time when you were emotionally vulnerable and you were in a way supporting |
| 0:11.2 | his ambitions that's just pretty |
| 0:14.6 | fucking disrespectful, right? |
| 0:16.2 | Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple |
| 0:19.0 | disclaimers. This show does cover a wide variety of topics |
| 0:22.1 | related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:24.3 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave |
| 0:29.1 | in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. So please use your |
| 0:34.7 | best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an |
| 0:38.2 | episode entirely, but feel free to feel it out, check out the episode and just see |
| 0:42.3 | what happens. If you need to skip, that's |
| 0:43.6 | okay, but you know, feel free to give it a shot first. I also need to say that while I am a psychologist, |
| 0:49.0 | 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. |
| 0:57.0 | So with those said, let's good. All right. |
| 1:15.0 | Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 295. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff |
| 1:23.2 | aka Duff the psych and make mental health content for real people just like you. |
| 1:27.6 | Today I have a question-and-answer episode with two really good questions. |
| 1:36.0 | First one involves a little bit of trauma talk, sexual abuse, I believe, yes, and other things in there. |
| 1:41.0 | Nothing graphic, but it does cover that topic. |
| 1:44.5 | And then the second one does not. So if you're feeling sensitive to that type of |
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