How can I support my partner when they are going through a difficult time?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

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🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In this episode, I coach Ali and Andrew and address the question, “How can I support my partner when they are going through a difficult time?” Our conversation covers love languages, articulating emotional needs, tolerating others’ suffering, and more.I advise Ali and Andrew to remember that they are individuals with unique thoughts and feelings. Sometimes in a partnership it is hard not to adopt the other person’s feelings–to have good emotional boundaries. It is important to let your partne...

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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
0:34.5	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.
0:45.1	I'm thrilled to welcome Allie and Andrew to the show today. Welcome.
0:50.3	Hi.
0:51.2	How are you doing?
0:52.5	I'm doing great. How about you? We're doing pretty good. Thanks for having us on. Good. My pleasure. I think this is my first couple I've had on. So you're kind of, you know, special here.
1:05.6	We love being special. Yes. So what is your question for me today? Well, it's his question actually. Okay. Andrew. I think it's kind of both. It's kind of both. But I guess I put I put words to it. So, so what I want to talk about today is so in every couple, you end up in places where you're having to communicate and adjust because life.
1:31.2	But if your partner is going through something that you're not, is going through something that maybe perhaps they're having to go through therapy to work through, how can the other partner support,
1:48.2	especially when it's something that in a lot of cases, and I feel like it's going to be this way,
1:54.1	the other partner just kind of can't relate to directly.
1:56.5	Okay.
1:56.9	So you're talking kind of about a couple out there.
1:59.7	Let's personalize it. What's going on? We're talking here.
2:02.7	Okay. I'm trying to generalize it a little bit because it could apply to a lot of things. But yes. So personalize it to here. There will be times when I, but at the moment it's more, Allie's got things that she kind of has been working through and will be working through.
2:21.2	With a therapist.
2:22.4	With a therapist.
2:23.5	Okay.
2:24.0	Like, how do I support her in that?
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