How to Share My Feelings Without Triggering My Partner? - Jayson & Ellen - 377

Relationship Coaching School Podcast

Jayson Gaddis

Relationships, Relationshippodcast, Sex, Relationshipadvice, Society & Culture, Jaysongaddispodcast, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 981 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Does your partner get defensive, angry, or triggered when you talk about tough feelings in your relationship? That can be a difficult situation to navigate. We will all be triggered by something in our lives (it’s unavoidable), but there are ways to make it a bit easier for both sides in the relationship. For this week’s podcast episode, Ellen and I address this listener question and offer our thoughts. Give it a listen if you can relate.

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0:00.0	That's just unrealistic and not fair to ask other people to not react.
0:04.2	No matter how skillfully we share it,
0:06.3	we still might activate our partner.
0:08.9	And that needs to be allowed. Hi, I'm Ellen Bader, and welcome back to the Relationship School Podcast.
0:35.0	And I'm Jason Guttus.
0:37.0	Hubby to Ellen Bader.
0:39.0	Let's see all.
0:40.0	All right, we have another great question from one of you.
0:47.0	Daniela has a good question about dealing with a partner who, like when you share your feelings, they get upset basically.
0:55.0	Yeah, yeah, you try to talk to them about how you feel about something in the relationship or something that they do or don't do,
1:01.0	and then your, and then that partner gets defensive or pushes back
1:06.0	or starts saying they have problems with you,
1:09.0	like it just, it kind of doesn't go anywhere,
1:11.0	maybe it makes things worse.
1:13.2	Yeah.
1:14.6	Yeah.
1:15.6	And I've had other folks ask this same question.
1:18.2	I think it's really important.
1:20.6	Ellie asked this one, a version of this, and Kevin asked another version of this recently on a class.
1:25.3	So thanks Daniela for this question.
1:28.3	Yeah, it's like how do I share my feelings without triggering and upsetting my partner.
1:33.8	Yeah.
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