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The Angry Therapist Podcast

Hard Things to Bring Up in Therapy | The Map for Messy Honesty

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Rapid-fire answers to your biggest honesty hurdles: settling vs. standards, dating vs. marriage mindset, online dating that respects your time, inviting more sex without pressure, and handling rejection like a grown-up. Short, practical, and therapist-backed. Join John in Costa Rica, Dec 1–5. A retreat for connection, creativity, and fresh starts with an optional two-day medicine journey. Sign up ⁠HERE⁠ 📘 Read John’s new book in progress Sh*t Your Therapist Would Never Tell You on John’s SubStack ⁠HERE⁠ Order John's new book, Break Up. On Purpose,⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow John on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Find out more about John⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Things you would never bring up in therapy, you could bring up here.

0:18.9

So there's a difference between dating and marriage.

0:20.8

So there's a difference between people you date and people you marry.

0:25.6

And I'm only using marriage as a societal template of the evolution of a relationship.

0:31.6

Not everyone wants to get married. I'm not married. I've been married, but I'm not currently married.

0:36.6

But I'm in a monogamous partnership.

0:40.1

And yes, I am doing this video in the tent of my two-year-old. She's at school. Don't tell her that I am

0:46.7

jumping into her fort. She will have a shit fit. Okay, let's talk about the mindset. Because people you date,

0:53.3

your mindset is on exploration, right?

0:56.5

And this is the biggest mistake I think people who date have is that, one second.

1:06.0

People who date, sorry.

1:09.2

Oh, shit.

1:09.8

People who date, they. Ah, shit. People who date,

1:12.0

they're dating to find

1:14.7

marriage and that can be dangerous.

1:18.9

Shut up, baby shark.

1:22.0

If your,

1:23.2

if your mindset is

1:26.5

turned on exploration when you are dating,

1:30.3

then you are open, you are discovering,

1:32.3

you're not having expectations on this leading to marriage.

1:38.3

And so there's less pressure, right?

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