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Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

Esther Calling - Am I Being Gaslit?

Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

Esther Perel Global Media

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.715.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this Esther Calling, Esther talks to a woman looking for clarity on whether she's being overly sensitive to her partner's critiques or if he is, in fact, gaslighting her. She has struggled with boundary setting before and she wonders if she is repeating the pattern here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Every season for where should we begin, I receive thousands of applicants.

0:09.3

And one of the most frustrating things is that I'm only going to be able to see 10 couples.

0:15.8

And I've been grappling with this.

0:18.0

How can I connect with more of you?

0:20.4

There are so many powerful questions, so many pain points that I would like to be able

0:25.0

to at least address with you even if shortly.

0:29.2

So this series is going to be different.

0:32.0

It's you calling me with a very precise question, with your pain point, me calling you back

0:39.8

and together we think out loud.

0:42.8

And we go from where should we begin to where can you start?

0:59.2

Hello, hello.

1:07.8

Hello.

1:10.0

So you wrote the question or you recorded the question, but if you could ask it to me again

1:18.5

as we speak today.

1:21.0

I'm wondering if I'm being gausslet by my partner or if it's a case that I'm just being overly sensitive.

1:35.0

I feel like there's that I get certain treatment when or alone that feels very hidden.

1:42.9

But in speaking to him, he says, I'm overly sensitive, that I'm overly bandried and that I actually,

1:54.5

it's more that I'm treating him badly.

1:57.6

And he gets angry at me from me being kind of bad.

2:01.3

And he admits that sometimes his behavior isn't great and he's working on it and he's worked a lot on it.

2:06.6

I just have no idea if I'm basically a bad person and if I'm treating him like crap and not being sensitive to him,

2:14.9

because that's what it sounds like.

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