Episode 309: Abusive Marriage & Cutting Off Mother
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends. In this episode, I answer two questions that encompass difficulties within family relationships. Here are the questions:
- My wife belittles me and makes me feel terrible constantly. What should I do?
- I'm thinking of cutting off contact with my mother, but I also have a lot of empathy for her. How should I proceed?
As always, you can send me questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes at http://duffthepsych.com/episode309
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| 0:00.0 | You know you stay in a relationship to the detriment of you and potentially also your partner, both of you, |
| 0:06.5 | just because it's just a thing, like you just want to try to see this thing through, you don't want to fail it. |
| 0:11.9 | But that's not a good reason to stay in a relationship |
| 0:14.0 | for a marriage. Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:18.2 | 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. of respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:32.5 | So please use your best judgment. |
| 0:34.3 | I will never be offended if you need to skip a question |
| 0:36.6 | or an episode entirely. |
| 0:38.1 | But feel free to feel it out, check out the episode |
| 0:40.5 | and just see what happens. |
| 0:41.4 | If you need to skip,'s okay but you know feel |
| 0:43.4 | free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not |
| 0:47.8 | your psychologist and I'm not your therapist this is not intended to be direct |
| 0:51.9 | medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:55.0 | So with those said, let's great. |
| 1:03.0 | It's great. |
| 1:05.0 | Great. |
| 1:07.0 | It's great. It's great. |
| 1:08.0 | It's great. |
| 1:10.0 | It's great. |
| 1:11.0 | It's great. All right, |
| 1:15.0 | Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Health Health |
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