How To Relationship Better with Vanessa Bennett

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John and Vanessa discuss various aspects of relationships and provide insights and strategies for building healthier connections. They draw from their personal experiences as licensed marriage and family therapists and individuals who have been in multiple relationships. They also cover topics such as codependency, loving without past baggage, attachment styles and love languages, fighting without fighting, and creating new experiences in relationships.

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Roughly ten minutes of self help in a shot glass. If you're looking for a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place. Marriage family therapist and best-selling author, John Kim, shares his life and love revelations as well as insights from his sessions. He pulls the curtain back and documents his journey as a therapist but more importantly, as a human being.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own
0:04.3	rebirth many years ago and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life
0:08.9	lessons and revelations. I believe in casual over clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose
0:16.4	because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated.
0:21.6	Can we start with our Creds and I don't mean our resume?
0:26.0	Yes, we are technically both licensed marriage family therapist and we see a lot of couples and we talk about
0:35.8	relationships a lot but what I mean by Cred is how many relationships have we been in personally?
0:44.0	So I think I've been in more than you.
0:48.0	So starting with you, college, what I would consider like a real legit relationship not like just dating.
0:58.0	Yeah I think it's important because I think with relationship kind of like parenting it's hard to know unless you've
1:08.5	been in it yeah and and I you know I always tell you this I always sound like a broken
1:12.4	record but I think there's a difference between
1:14.4	theory and practice and we can as clinicians quote-to-quote we can study all the
1:21.9	books on relationships and we can get on our high horse and podium and
1:27.8	and then and what you should do and shouldn't do and how to fight in all this but we are human and I think the the
1:36.4	greatest revelations in learning is through human experience and so I guess I'll go first so I first relationship three years in my 20s
1:49.4	Then a five-year relationship that turned into another five-year marriage and then another
1:56.6	three-year relationship. It was a long-distance relationship that turned into a
2:00.7	reunion and relationship in Los Angeles.
2:04.1	And then another three-year relationship.
2:06.1	I have a pattern of doing a lot of three-year relationships.
2:09.4	And then in between.
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