Potholes & Productive Conflict in Relationships with Abby & Glennon

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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312. Potholes & Productive Conflict in Relationships with Abby & Glennon Abby and Glennon answer ALL of your relationship questions. We get into juicy topics like how to fight better, the balance of individuation and connection in relationships, and how to take ownership of your own feelings vs. judging your partner’s behaviors. Discover: -What introverts and extroverts have to learn from each other and how they can be in a relationship effectively; -Abby and Glennon’s unbelievable golf cart fight and tips on how to have more productive conflicts; -How to let go of the need to control someone else; and -What Abby means when she says, “woof.” To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. Today you are going to notice that there are only two of us here. It's just Abby and me.
0:22.0	And what we thought we would do today is sit down together and talk to the pod squad by hearing a lot of their questions that they have in particular for me or for Abby or for both of us together and respond to you all.
0:37.3	This is so fun.
0:39.3	Is it?
0:40.3	Yeah, I like questions that are asked to me.
0:42.6	Okay, great.
0:43.6	Well, let's get into it, babe.
0:45.0	Great.
0:46.0	Hi, my name is Morgan.
0:47.6	I'm calling because I love my girlfriend very, very much, but I am concerned that she may be one of the only good things in my life and I'm letting her be that way and I just want to
1:06.2	understand how I can both honor this relationship and love her as deeply as I do
1:12.4	while also loving myself and giving space for myself.
1:16.3	You all are the best.
1:17.8	Thank you so much for this podcast and for everything.
1:20.6	It's so brave to be able to admit that. Yeah, I relate to Morgan. Do you? I do, I do. I remember a long time ago, we were doing an interview on here with Esther Parral and she said something that I did not resonate with in the moment but over time I have come to resonate with and she said in many relationships there is one person who is afraid of losing the other
1:45.4	person and there is one person who is afraid of losing herself.
1:51.8	And at the time it seemed like too much of an oversimplification for me to accept, but I have noticed it since then. I can see it in couples, I can see it in us.
2:04.7	And I recently was talking to a friend who is an artist.
2:09.5	And she is in the first happy relationship of her life
2:12.1	and it is a beautiful healthy relationship.
2:15.3	And it's two women and she is afraid.
2:21.7	She's made it through the first few months of just complete loss of identity where you just get totally soaked into the other person.
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