Relationship Reality Check: How Much Fun Are You to LIve With? EP 6

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Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Reclaim Your Core: ‘Relationship Reality Check: How Much Fun Are You To Live With?’ Episode 6: “It’s time to make a substantial difference in the health, pleasure, joy and satisfaction in your relationship – whether your partner does anything or not,” says Dr. Phil in episode 6 of his Phil in the Blanks podcast series “Relationship Reality Check: How Much Fun Are You To Live With?” “If you’ve been listening to my latest series, Relationship Reality Check, we’ve worked hard to get rid of the myths and “bad spirits” in your relationships. Now, it’s time to choose to behave differently,” Dr. Phil says. Find out how to reclaim your core in episode 6 and how you can get through Thanksgiving with a smile on your face! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Forgiveness is not a feeling. It is a choice. They try to vent their frustrations in a
0:16.6	safe way instead of dealing with the real issue. Don't weaponize your pain. Don't get
0:23.1	caught in that trap. So if your interactions constantly focus on superficial and trivial
0:28.7	topics ask yourself what are you hiding from. But if you give up on your relationship,
0:33.6	you're really giving up on you.
0:35.7	It's Dr. Phil. Welcome back to Phil in the Blanks. We're in the middle of our relationship
0:49.1	reality check. You guys know that I've subtitled this. How much fun are you to live with? Think
0:56.8	about that question. How much fun are you to live with? Why is not always about yucking
1:03.6	it up and fun is not always about laughing and playing games and being on vacation? When
1:10.4	I say fun, that can also mean how peaceful are you to be with? How easy are you to be
1:19.4	around? How safe do someone feel around you emotionally? So when I'm talking about
1:26.5	how much fun are you to live with, I mean mentally, emotionally, physically, just in every
1:34.8	possible way. How much fun are you to live with? Last time we were talking about what I
1:41.3	call your bad spirit, that part of you that gets in the way of somebody feeling all of
1:48.7	those things I just described. There's a few more sides to this bad spirit that I want
1:53.9	to talk about, and then I'm going to change the subject to something really timely. We're
1:59.4	going to get to all of that in a less than a minute.
2:02.5	Okay, you remember last time we were talking about the different dimensions of what I call
2:15.5	the bad spirit, because remember I said, I don't care what relationship we're talking
2:21.2	about, romantic relationship, friend relationship, work relationship, family relationship, whatever
2:28.0	relationship you enter, you either contribute to or contaminate that relationship, and you
2:35.0	might contribute to one, get up and walk into the next room and contaminate that one. So
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