How Therapist Bruce Tift Helped Me Have the Balls to Marry My Wife - Bruce Tift - 483
Relationship School Podcast
Jayson Gaddis
4.6 • 981 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Bruce was one of THE pivotal factors in helping me marry my wife before she slammed the door shut on me. Hear that story in this episode and why it’s so common for couples to struggle. Bruce offers a powerful frame for relationship and intimacy and makes the distinction between the developmental work we need to do, and the possibility that we are “already free” in relationship. Check it.
Timestamps:
- 4:29 - Jayson's history with Bruce
- 7:22 - Dealing with contradictions in relationships
- 15:11 - The value of separateness
- 23:04 - The practice of personal responsibility
- 27:26 - Bruce shares about his marriage
- 32:37 - How Bruce became a therapist
- 38:42 - What is a successful relationship?
- 43:19 - The impact of parenting on Bruce
- 47:13 - Sexual intimacy in a long-term relationship
- 55:43 - Personal responsibility
- 1:01:19 - Bruce's book, Already Free
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners, welcome to the relationship school podcast. |
| 0:02.8 | Thanks for tuning into the show. |
| 0:04.4 | This week's episode is a re-release of an older episode that our |
| 0:06.9 | listeners loved. |
| 0:07.9 | We hope you dig it. |
| 0:09.9 | Relating to an intimate partner is guaranteed in my experience to force out into the open |
| 0:15.6 | any unresolved issues we have. Hey Jason Gatis here. Welcome to the Relationship School Podcast. This show focuses on |
| 0:29.0 | human behavior, psychology and relationships. It's for people who are into growth and development. |
| 0:33.8 | It's for people who wrestle with the paradox of self-acceptance and self-mastery. |
| 0:39.0 | If you want to gain more self-awareness, have a better relationship with yourself and more fulfilling relationships with others, this show is for you. |
| 0:46.0 | It's my belief and my experience that your life satisfaction, your health and well-being and your longevity will be determined by how much confidence you have in your most important |
| 0:55.2 | relationships, including the one with yourself. |
| 0:58.2 | Hey y'all, I hope you have ordered my new book by now getting to zero how to work through |
| 1:03.7 | conflict in your high stakes relationships. It's already getting dozens of |
| 1:09.3 | five-star reviews on Amazon. I've heard from a lot of you. Thank you for buying the book, buying it on |
| 1:14.5 | audible, buying it on Kindle. I really appreciate it. I really appreciate the support. I think this book is going to help a lot of people. It's all about how do we get back to a good place after some |
| 1:25.5 | kind of disconnection or rupture or conflict. That's what the entire book is about. |
| 1:30.8 | And if you want a roadmap on how to get back to a good place, what I call |
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| 1:42.3 | quiz, some additional PDFs, etc. |
| 1:45.2 | And you can order it in all the places and support your local bookstores. |
| 1:49.0 | Cool, thanks. Back to the show. |
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