Laying On The Nail
The R Spot with Iyanla
Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 908 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Callers this week are feeling unfulfilled in their romantic relationships, but can’t get up the courage to make a change despite clear issues. Iyanla shares a story of a hound dog that has a deeper message that may help these callers make a decision with their husbands.
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| 0:00.0 | I amla. I had a baby daddy relationship. I spent time in a relationship with a married man. |
| 0:09.0 | I had to learn the skills and tools required to make my relationships healthy, fulfilling, and loving. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the R-Spot, a production of Shandaland Audio in partnership with I Heart Radio. There's a story that I heard when I was in seminary about a country minister who |
| 0:40.0 | used to go every Sunday after church to one of his parishioners homes to have dinner |
| 0:46.2 | because he was unmarried. |
| 0:47.7 | And there was this one couple, the wife was a dynamite cook, so he liked to go there very often. He'd go to their home and he'd walk up on this porch and they had a huge |
| 0:55.8 | hound dog, one of them brown hound dogs with the hangy face and the long floppy ears, and the hound dog would be laying on the porch |
| 1:01.6 | whining. He'd walk past the dog and look at him, he'd look at it, he'd go on and eat his dinner, |
| 1:08.5 | he'd come out, the dog was laying there whining. |
| 1:11.0 | Next week he went back, same thing. |
| 1:15.0 | Walk up on the porch, the dog is in the same spot, whining. |
| 1:18.0 | Mm, mmm, hehmm, eat dinner, come out, dog is in the same spot. |
| 1:23.0 | So by the fourth or fifth week, he turned to the farmer and his wife and he said, |
| 1:27.5 | every time I come here, your dog is whining. |
| 1:31.0 | Is there something wrong with him? And the farmer looked at him and said, |
| 1:34.0 | oh yeah, he's laying on a nail. He said, laying on a nail, well why doesn't he move? And the farmer |
| 1:40.0 | said, because it doesn't hurt bad enough. We will stay in situations whining and |
| 1:46.0 | complaining and making everybody and everything wrong, laying on the same now, but we will not move until it hurts bad enough. |
| 1:57.0 | My next guess is a prime example of what it looks like to lay on a nail. |
| 2:04.0 | Hi Daphne, thank you so much for holding on and welcome to the R spot. |
| 2:09.0 | How can I support you today? |
| 2:11.0 | I am been married 22 years this year and it's just kind of getting |
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