SC 127 - My Partner Has Issues, What Do I Do?

Relationship School Podcast

Jayson Gaddis

Relationships, Relationshippodcast, Sex, Relationshipadvice, Society & Culture, Jaysongaddispodcast, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 981 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

QUESTION from our listener Jeff:

How can a couple grow together and be truly happy if one of the parties has some underlying personal issues?

I dive into this question and offer Jeff some basic feedback that all of us need to hear about "issues." If you think your partner has issues, this is going to help both of you, a lot!

SHOWNOTES

Whose 'issues' you need to beware of [3:00]
Do you have to be happy with yourself before you get into a relationship? [5:00]
The two decisions you need to make to deal with dysfunctional behaviour [8:00]
How to avoid weaponizing self-help tools [10:00]

Transcript

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0:00.0	So, So welcome everyone to the Ask Me Anything Smart Couple show
0:25.0	slash podcast where we answer your important relationship questions.
0:30.0	And I am still buzzing from the graduation weekend of the relationship school with some of you.
0:38.0	And that was ridiculous, right?
0:43.4	What a time we had together.
0:46.0	Okay, so how it goes is I read the question,
0:50.5	I answer the question, if you got something something similar you chime in.
0:54.0	So Jeff from Florida, what's up? How can a couple grow together and be truly happy if one of the parties has some underlying personal issues. You know what I'm going to say about this, don't you?
1:08.0	And Jeff, you don't have issues? How can a couple grow together and be truly happy if one of the parties has underlying issues?
1:20.0	Guys, you know what I'm say? Like, we all have issues. I remember my friend Derek and I,
1:30.3	an old climbing partner of mine, we used to be out climbing and talking about women and
1:35.4	you know our women challenges and there'd be someone I was dating or he was
1:41.0	dating and our first question was like,
1:42.8	does she have issues?
1:45.4	As if her having issues was a problem
1:49.1	and it was for me back then because if she had issues, I didn't want to deal with them. Because I wasn't dealing with my issues.
1:55.0	Right?
1:58.0	In fact, there was a song, there's some song from the, some band in the 80s.
2:06.0	I got issues, yeah, like I miss you.
2:10.0	I don't know how the song goes, but it's something like that.
2:12.0	So we had this kind the song goes but it's something like that.
2:12.6	So we had this kind of running joke and it sounds Jeff like you
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