This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the love, happiness,

and success podcast.

So close to me, I have the key. happiness and success podcast. That's the band Automatic with a song, Damage, off their album called Signal.

I am officially obsessed with this band if you would like to learn more about Automatic

and listen to all their music. You can check them out on Bandcamp. I am including a link to their

page on the post for this episode at growingself.com.

I chose this song to set the tone for our topic today because today we are talking about

something very important, which is how to avoid getting into toxic relationships in the first

place by learning how to stop dating jerks.

And I know that this has been on your mind because I've had a lot of you reach out to me through

our website at growingself.com through Instagram with these situations. You're like, you know what?

I did it again. Why do I keep getting myself in these relationships,

in these situationships with who wind up not being a good fit for me? I don't like it. I don't

want to do it anymore, but I also don't know how to stop. And that's valid. And so today we are

devoting a whole episode into unpealing this onion and answering some of these questions for you.

I have something exciting planned for us today. I am going to be doing a couple of things.

I am an information person, as you probably figured out now, if you've listened to this show before.

So I am going to be

providing information and insight, just things that I have learned over the years in my role as a

therapist, a dating coach, a counselor here at Growing Self. But then I also am going to be speaking

with one of my listeners.

One of your compadres, one of our community has raised her hand.

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