SC 206 - The Mother-Son Relationship Dynamic - Ellen & Jayson
The Jayson Gaddis Podcast
Jayson Gaddis
4.7 • 999 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
You know those couples where the woman handles almost everything and the man, well ... kind of kicks back and acts like a teenager? That's the mother-son dynamic and in this episode, you'll learn how to escape that relationship trap and figure out why it happens in the first place.
- The Mom-Son Dynamic From A Woman’s Perspective [3:00]
- The Mom-Son Dynamic From A Guy’s Perspective [5:00]
- How to Help A Couple Living In A Parent-Child Relationship [9:00]
- How The Male Ego Comes Into Play [16:00]
For the full Smart Couple Podcast webpage for this episode featuring Ellen Boeder visit https://relationshipschool.net/podcast206
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| 0:00.0 | Let's say he doesn't have a job and you've been trying to help him for the last year |
| 0:04.5 | you've been actually on websites yourself trying to help him find a job. |
| 0:08.9 | That's an obvious example where you need to stop doing that. |
| 0:11.9 | That's where it starts to feel like mother-son dynamics. So, Hi Ellen Bader. Hi, Jason Gettis. What's up and welcome back to another episode of the |
| 0:41.7 | relationship school's Smart Couple podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:46.0 | Psych to have you here. |
| 0:48.0 | We wanted to break down a common dynamic that we see. |
| 0:52.0 | Yes. Yes. |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, and it's really where |
| 0:55.0 | it's kind of can look like a mother-son dynamic |
| 1:00.0 | between a man and a woman. |
| 1:01.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:02.0 | Where the woman is doing a lot, she's very self-reliant, |
| 1:06.3 | and the man is a very smart guy and capable, |
| 1:10.4 | but for whatever reason he maybe is a little lost and he feels like he doesn't have a role in the relationship or he's kind of drifting or he just likes, he wants things to be easy. |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah. Yeah. |
| 1:22.6 | Yeah, and the woman might be the breadwinner or she might not be. |
| 1:27.4 | She might just be kind of running things at home. |
| 1:29.8 | She might be the primary parent. |
| 1:32.3 | She might be, whatever she's doing, she's handling a lot and she's making a lot |
| 1:36.0 | and her guy is kind of just hanging out wants to just kind of just hanging out, |
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