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The Angry Therapist Podcast

Red & Green Flags in Dating (Part 1): Connection

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In the first episode of a three part series, Red & Green Flags in Dating, John breaks down the three most important C's in dating: connection, communication, and capacity. He defines what connection is, gives examples of what healthy and unhealthy forms of connection are, and discusses red and green flags to look for in connection when you're first dating someone.

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own

0:04.3

rebirth many years ago and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life

0:08.9

lessons and revelations. I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose

0:16.4

because self-health doesn't have to be so complicated.

0:21.6

All right, so I broke down how to know what are red and green flags in

0:29.2

dating into three categories and I call it the three C's I broke it down into connection, communication, and capacity.

0:38.0

And I really think that this that these categories are, in my opinion,

0:47.2

some of the most important, you know,

0:48.9

as far as setting yourself up for a great dating experience slash building a relationship.

0:59.5

So the first episode, this episode, we're going to talk about communication, connection, then the next episode this episode we're going to talk about communication

1:03.2

connection then the next episode will talk about communication and the final one

1:07.1

will talk about capacity so under the umbrella of connection and I want to challenge you to explore and redefine what a connection looks like for you.

1:18.0

I know for me, in my 20s, connection was just basically attraction.

1:24.1

Connection was how much dopamine shot into my head

1:28.3

because someone had pretty eyes or a nice body.

1:31.8

Connection was basically my boner, right?

1:34.4

And of course, as you start to get in relationships,

1:37.4

you realize that connection is deeper.

1:40.7

There's a lot more to connection than just the attraction. So today as a

1:45.9

50 year old connection means so much more than attraction and also attraction attraction, that has changed, you know, like before, when I was young, yes,

1:59.6

attraction was a lot about aesthetics, attraction was a lot about aesthetics.

2:04.0

Attraction was also about energy and the dynamic.

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