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The Overwhelmed Brain

His ex is unsafe for our relationship

The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert

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

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A partner's ex is a partner's problem... or is it? What if they're trying to wiggle their way back to your partner? I address that concern from someone who says they feel unsafe with their partner's ex being in the picture.

Transcript

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0:00.0

These are my personal opinions.

0:01.8

Always seek a professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.

0:11.3

All right, we're going to talk about one of my favorite categories of questions, which is resolving a dispute.

0:19.6

The dispute that is going on today is in a relationship. A lot of them are.

0:24.9

99% of the questions I get are about relationships. It's not always romantic relationships. Sometimes

0:30.6

it's family. Sometimes it's friendships. Sometimes it's work. I love getting these kinds of questions,

0:35.9

actually. So if you ever have a dispute that needs settled, I'm not saying I'll give you the right

0:42.9

answer.

0:43.9

I'm saying I'll give you the way I would handle it.

0:46.5

That's the best way to describe what, or at least how I think through these things, the

0:50.9

way I would handle it.

0:51.9

So if you've been listening a while and you trust what

0:55.3

I have to say or at least have some trust and what I have to say, then it might be a direction

1:00.4

for you. So if you have a dispute going on, a disagreement where you're both, you know,

1:06.6

your arms are crossed and well, I'm right. No, I'm right right and then you just can't get to a common

1:12.2

ground on it you can't get to a solution let me know I have a contact form it's actually

1:18.6

at the overwhelmed brain.com but you can also go to more tob.com and you'll see at the bottom

1:24.3

it says ask a question so So either website is fine.

1:28.4

I have a few out there that you can find my love and abuse website and other places.

1:32.3

But that's where you would ask me a question about a dispute or a disagreement.

1:37.8

I love getting those.

1:38.7

So I just wanted to let you know that I was thinking about this last night after I got this question a few days ago.

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