Good evening, everybody. How are you? Welcome back to Loveline. Hope you guys are, I feel like I say this every night. Hope you're getting through the week.

Really kind of, I tell on myself when I speak that way, right? I think I'm kind of, you know, understanding how difficult things are these days. And for a lot of people, it's kind of just about getting through you know so

i guess just me just offering up care and support and recognizing that things aren't easy for for a lot of us

these days um it's kind of interesting it comes up in my office clinically when we're talking about

different diagnoses or struggles and individuals or clients again as you know a general psychologist

but also specializing in couples in

sex therapy. I, you know, really get to dive deep into what's going on in people's lives.

And often, unfortunately, some of the harder things I have to deliver as a therapist is,

hey, unfortunately, that's something that we're not going to necessarily be able to completely

eliminate. It might be something that we're

always learning how to manage, right? And so I want to normalize that some things in life are about

management, you know, shaving down some of the rough edges, making it a little easier, finding

ways to maybe be resilient or thrive within the context of something difficult, especially if

it's an element of life

that is going to be sustained in some form.

And also comes up in the relational stuff where, you know, this is a very, a sloppy, I don't

know, assessment or structure to utilize.

So know that it's not completely accurate, but the way we kind of educate new therapists around

couples' issues is we often say the one-third, one-third, one-third rule.

And that's that a third of the issues that couples come into the office to work on are

completely resolvable.

Like, yes, we will eliminate that.

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