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The Virtual Couch

Examining 4 Marriage Myths - From Russ Harris's Book "ACT With Love"

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

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

5643 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Tony talks about his "aha" moment when attending a wedding over the past weekend of why marriages begin with a lot of pressure and unrealized expectations that originate from each person's family history. Then he shares Russ Harris's 4 Myths of Marriage from the book "ACT With Love" https://www.amazon.com/ACT-Love-Struggling-Differences-Relationship/dp/1572246227/ref=sr_1_1?crid=230A2KCMWA6LX&keywords=act+with+love+by+russ+harris&qid=1659530505&sprefix=act+with+love%2Caps%2C125&sr=8-1 (https://www.amazon.com/ACT-Love-Struggling-Differences-Relationship/dp/1572246227/ref=sr_1_1?crid=230A2KCMWA6LX&keywords=act+with+love+by+russ+harris&qid=1659530505&sprefix=act+with+love%2Caps%2C125&sr=8-1)If you are interested in being coached in Tony's upcoming "Magnetic Marriage Podcast," please email [email protected]. You will receive free marriage coaching and be kept entirely anonymous when the episode airs. Go to http://tonyoverbay.com/workshop (http://tonyoverbay.com/workshop) to sign up for Tony's "Magnetize Your Marriage" virtual workshop. The cost is only $19, and you'll learn the top 3 things you can do NOW to create a Magnetic Marriage. You can learn more about Tony's pornography recovery program, The Path Back, by visiting http://pathbackrecovery.com And visit http://tonyoverbay.com (http://tonyoverbay.com) and sign up to receive updates on upcoming programs and podcasts.Tony mentioned a product that he used to take out all of the "uh's" and "um's" that, in his words, "must be created by wizards and magic!" because it's that good! To learn more about Descript, click here https://descript.com?lmref=bSWcEQ (https://descript.com?lmref=bSWcEQ)

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0:00.0

Hey, oh, oh, oh, come on in and take a seat on the virtual couch.

0:21.9

Hey everybody, welcome to episode 332 of the virtual couch.

0:25.5

I'm your host, Tony Overbay.

0:26.5

I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist, certified mindful have a coach, writer, speaker, husband, father of four, and creator of the path back, which is an online pornography recovery program that is changing lives.

0:36.1

If you want to know more about that,

0:44.7

head over to tonyoverbay.com. You can click on a link called courses. And you can find access to a PDF copy of five myths that people fall prey to when trying to put pornography in their

0:51.0

rearview mirror once in for all. Not that exact title, but I think you get the gist. So story time. Over the past weekend, my wife and I attended a wedding. I love weddings,

0:59.6

especially weddings of people that I truly are close to or I care about. And I cared about this new

1:04.6

couple as one of the participants in the marriage is a relative of mine. And the ceremony was beautiful

1:09.9

and it was wonderful to see friends and

1:11.6

family that I haven't seen in a long time. We traveled to a place near and dear to me that I grew up

1:17.5

and I got to go to restaurants, I haven't been to a long time. My wife and I ran on running

1:22.1

trails that we haven't ran on in a long time. And I got to see a couple of my adult children

1:26.7

that live away from me.

1:28.3

And so everything about this weekend was just amazing.

1:31.4

But I really do feel like it is so interesting to see people age.

1:35.7

And this is one of the first times that I truly thought about the fact that I, too, am one of those people who is aging.

1:41.3

Now, this is a side note.

1:42.8

But I've been listening to an audio

1:44.4

book called Homo Deus, and it's a follow-up to a book called Sapiens that was getting a lot of buzz

1:49.6

maybe two or three years ago. Both of these books are by an author named Yuval Noah Harari,

1:55.5

and where Sapiens, according to the Goodread summary, talks about how the breakthroughs of the cognitive

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