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The Overwhelmed Brain

Jumping to conclusions and overreacting

The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert

Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

There's a good reason to manage emotional triggers to prevent damaging reactions in relationships. In this episode, I share a five-step process to visualize and prepare for these moments. There are long-term consequences when you're always jumping to conclusions and reacting to things that, perhaps, aren't as bad as you think.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So I got married, I got married last week. We got married, Aisha and I. It is when June 21, 2024. That's when we got married right on Summer Solstice. Love it. It's been a year since I

0:27.4

mentioned that so I wanted to bring that up the very first thing to talk about and

0:32.4

we had some wonderful pictures taken we had some wonderful times during the day it was a very very low-key wedding and if you want to check it out you can look up my profile on

0:45.9

Facebook Paul Koliani and you'll find pictures of us. I'm wearing a 20s

0:52.3

era pinstrip suit and she's wearing a very customized dress that she had done and it looked amazing and I think we looked great. She said those are her favorite pictures of us and we are now married after 10 years of being together.

1:10.0

And some people might ask why so long.

1:13.0

And I have a great answer.

1:15.0

We both have a great answer because we were married before and we didn't necessarily believe that we needed to get married again.

1:24.0

We thought we were committed to each other.

1:26.1

But then a few years ago, she said, you know, I've thought about getting married again.

1:30.7

And I said, what? Okay. And I hadn't thought about it, honestly. I just thought this is our life together and this is how it will be. But she thought about it. And so we talked about it and I said sure you let's

1:43.8

consider that but let me ask you I don't want you to ask me I want me to ask you

1:48.9

which thinking back was unfair I think both people have a right to ask, but I really wanted to ask, and I wanted to make it special.

1:58.0

So I told that story, you know, how I asked her to marry me when my mom was there and my sister was

2:04.8

there is at a Chinese restaurant again low key I probably not do it at a Chinese

2:10.4

restaurant again but I did and it was neat. It was really special to me and I think she

2:17.8

enjoyed it too because it was a surprise. But yes, 10 years. What took so long and do you care? Do you know me well enough to care?

2:27.0

So I waited a while after we talked about. I waited a while to ask her because she was having issues with her teeth.

2:36.0

She had got hit in the mouth of the baseball like a couple decades ago and she had surgery

2:41.6

after surgery after surgery and she always had like a

2:45.2

flipper a fake tooth and sometimes she didn't wear it and then there were a couple

2:49.1

of years where she couldn't wear it and it went on and on and she had a lot of trauma around that and so when she was finally

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