Reinventing Valentine’s Day with Stacy Kaiser

Live Happy Now

Live Happy LLC

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:mental Health

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

For many people, Valentine’s Day can be fraught with danger. If you’re in a relationship, you might be worried that it won’t meet your expectations; if you’re single, it might make you feel lonely. This week, relationship expert Stacy Kaiser, author of the popular Ask Stacy column for Live Happy, takes on some of the questions that are common around this time of year and offers her gives insight on how to get what you need from this Valentine’s Day – and how to make that last all year long. In this episode you’ll learn: Why we put so much emphasis on this day – and how to put it into perspective How to communicate your expectations before Valentine’s Day arrives Great ways for singles to celebrate Valentine’s Day

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 195 of Live Happy Now.
0:05.6	This is your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us today.
0:09.4	This week, we're joined by our favorite psychotherapist, Stacey Kaiser.
0:13.4	You know her from the Live Happy column, Ask Stacy,
0:16.3	but you've probably also seen her on one of her many television appearances.
0:20.0	This week, we were lucky enough
0:21.3	to get her into our studio to talk about this tricky little holiday called Valentine's Day.
0:26.1	And we're going to learn how to keep our expectations in check and our relationships intact.
0:31.3	Stacey, welcome to the show and thank you so much for coming on and being a guest.
0:35.3	Oh, I'm so happy to do this today. Well, this was an
0:38.0	absolute perfect topic to talk to you about because it's almost Valentine's Day. And as we know,
0:42.8	it's just one day out of the year, but oh my God, it gets a lot of hype. And so I wanted to know from
0:48.2	your perspective, first of all, like why do we put so much pressure on just this one day?
0:53.5	Well, I actually think that some of the pressure isn't our fault.
0:56.6	Some of it happens when the minute New Year's passed,
1:00.2	they have like the 50% off of like the blowers for New Year's,
1:03.8	and they're putting the Valentine stuff already.
1:06.4	Like, hello, make sure you buy your Valentine or Valentine,
1:09.8	and restaurants are sending out their special Valentine menu and, you know, all of that.
1:15.7	So I do think that there's a social pressure that starts it all off.
1:19.8	And then I think the second part of that pressure ends up coming from the expectations either within ourselves or our partner.
1:27.8	A lot of times if you have a couple who both of them don't have any expectation,
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