This is Dr. Lisa Murray-Bobby, and you're listening to the Love of Happiness and Success podcast.

Yes. Yes, it's the love happiness and success podcast.

And as you may have guessed from our musical intro today, which was Duchess says, by the way, with a song called Negative Thoughts.

Today we are tackling yet again another difficult and incredibly common life experience,

which is the feeling of holding on tightly with clenched fingers to resentment.

Feelings of resentment for things that have happened in the past.

Things are happening currently that are annoying, angering, hurtful, and feel very persistent. That's what we're doing today on the show.

If you are in particular holding on to resentment about things that your partner has done or has

been doing, this one is for you especially because holding on to resentment can

make it not just difficult to enjoy your relationship in the present. I know, I know well from

my experience as a marriage counselor that resentment when it's bubbling around in your relationship can create its own

set of relationship problems. So today this episode is all about how to let go of resentment

in your relationship so that you can both move forward and just start having a good time

again because you deserve that.

And before we jump in, I just want to thank you all for being here.

And I have to tell you, I have been really enjoying all of your comments and questions that you've been tossing at me lately, both through the blog at growingself.com.

And those of you that reached out through Instagram at Dr. Lisa

Marie Bobby on Instagram, I have been reading your questions. I have been recording your

questions and I have been thinking about how to answer your questions meaningfully. So

that's, of course, where this podcast comes comes from too because I've heard from a few

of you that this is a major pain point in your relationship. Either you feel like you're

holding onto resentment or you're feeling really frustrated because your partner seems like

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