Pro Tips To Manage Your Dating & Relationship Anxiety with Mackinzie Rummell, LCSW
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, relationship therapist Mackinzie Rummell returns to discuss crucial topics in dating and relationships. Mackenzie shares insights on dating intentionally for marriage, managing vulnerability and anxiety in relationships, and handling conflicts both early and in long-term dating. We also answered listener questions, including dealing with snooping on a partner's internet history, balancing social anxiety with dating, and coping with rejection. And then, Mackinzie provides guidance on the importance of communication skills and preparing for life's big transitions, like having a baby.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:04.8 | Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back to another episode of Seeing Other People. |
| 0:10.1 | Together, we're navigating modern dating alongside experts and real-life daters who are sharing |
| 0:14.9 | their stories. Don't have a date for tonight? No problem. Come learn, laugh, and maybe even |
| 0:20.3 | cry along with us as we navigate the dating scene together. |
| 0:23.2 | All right, you guys, we are back round two with McKenzie. Welcome back to seeing other people. How are you doing? |
| 0:30.3 | I'm doing well. How are you? Glad to be back. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm so excited that we decided to do two episodes together because there's still so much I |
| 0:40.9 | can't wait to get into with you. And just in case anyone missed the last episode, we had McKinsey |
| 0:46.1 | on to share her story about saying yes to a proposal that she didn't necessarily want to say |
| 0:52.2 | yes to and then having to go through the process of being engaged, breaking off that engagement, getting back out there, meeting her |
| 0:58.8 | now husband. And it was an amazing story. And I just can't thank you enough for sharing it. |
| 1:04.4 | And now there's so much that I want to ask you as you are a relationship therapist. |
| 1:10.6 | And obviously, this is seeing other people. |
| 1:13.0 | So we have a ton of listener questions that came in that I would love your help with. And it's also |
| 1:17.5 | some aspects about, you know, communicating in early stages of dating and dating intentionally |
| 1:22.6 | for marriage that we're going to talk about. So I'm really excited to get into it. |
| 1:27.3 | Me too. I'm so excited. |
| 1:29.3 | Okay. So where I want to begin is, you know, we talked about approaching dating after having some |
| 1:38.5 | form of an intense experience. It's an intense breakup, getting back out there. This concept of intentionally |
| 1:45.8 | dating for marriage, if that's what you want. What does that mean? Because I feel like in the |
| 1:53.5 | conversations that I have with people, the idea of dating for marriage actually adds so much |
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