How can I recognize a healthy romantic connection when I have one?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

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

4.6 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In this episode I talk with Hannah and answer the question, “How can I recognize a healthy romantic connection when I have one?” Hannah describes a theme from her past relationships where she’s often felt like she has to be perfect in order to receive love. This pattern dates back to her childhood relationship with her father.I tell Hannah that we tend to replay our early relationships in our romantic relationships. In some ways, it’s life telling us that we need to heal a past wound. Healing...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your fate. I'm your host,
0:29.2	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.6	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.
0:38.3	Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them
0:43.0	with tools to find healing.
0:45.2	I am thrilled to welcome Hannah to the podcast today. Welcome, Hannah.
0:49.9	Thank you. I appreciate it.
0:51.8	What is your question for me today?
0:54.2	I have been thinking a lot about healthy relationships that is kind of what I want to go into
1:01.2	and my nature. But I have often been finding myself in not the best relationships or things
1:09.0	that like end quickly, just not really being able to
1:13.1	recognize a healthy connection. And I feel like that's kind of my biggest question are what
1:18.8	are key indicators of a healthy relationship and following up on that, what can I reasonably
1:27.1	expect of myself and others in relationships?
1:29.6	Because a lot of times, I feel like I'm trying to gauge if my needs are wants or needs.
1:37.5	If that's just something that I'm kind of expecting of someone in this new relationship,
1:41.7	that's too much and, you know, different things like that.
1:45.1	So what, so the pattern that you, tell me more about the pattern that you notice in your life
1:51.2	with relationships.
1:52.2	Mm-hmm.
1:53.8	I feel like often I have my interest piqued in someone and we start talking, maybe start dating and things like that.
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