This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success

podcast.

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Yeah, we're talking today about loneliness in relationships and how difficult it can feel if you are with someone that is absent and you're both

kind of floating around wanting more. It's a difficult place to be in, but we're going to tackle

it together on today's podcast. And our intro music today, I think, is a perfect mood setter for

our topic. This is a song Lonely by Idealism thanks to Chill Hop music. You can check it out,

chill hop, find them on band camp. All right. So let's turn to our topic today about lonely marriages or lonely relationships,

why they happen, and most importantly, what to do to restore the connection in your relationship

if you're in one. If this is your first time listening to this show, I'm so glad you're here

and that you've found us. I'm

Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby. I'm the founder and clinical director of growing self-counseling and coaching.

I'm a licensed psychologist. I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist. I'm a board

certified coach. But truly, I love working with people around healthy relationships the most of all three of those qualifications

I most identify as being a marriage and family therapist. And I'll tell you why, you know,

our ability to have healthy, secure, positive relationships is just so vital to our lives.

I know it is for me personally, for other people

I know certainly for my clients. And I also get so many questions from you, my listeners,

related to your relationships. And thank you so much, by the way, if you've gotten in touch

with me lately on Instagram at Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby or through our website growingself.com

with your relationship questions. And lately, many of them have been centering around this

topic of lonely marriages and just how painful it is. And I just wanted to acknowledge this and how real it is. I mean,

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