Should you keep the door open to people who want to close it?

The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert

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

4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Enforcing boundaries with family is hard enough, but what if they want to enforce them with you? What if they want to close the door to your relationship, even though you didn't do anything wrong? In this episode, I read a message from a woman whose father decided his new wife and family were more important than his existing one. Very, very tough subject.

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0:00.0	Why is nothing I do ever good enough? I'm so confused how come I keep screwing up?
0:06.4	If you've asked yourself questions like this in a relationship that you are in head
0:10.8	over to my other podcast Love and abuse over at love and abuse
0:13.7	dot com and learn what the real issue in the relationship might be.
0:17.6	Welcome to the overwhelmed brain where you'll learn to make decisions that are right
0:21.6	for you so that you can create the life you want now.
0:25.0	Hey, this is Paul Kolyani and I'm here to help you learn to deal with difficult people and
0:30.0	tackle life's challenges without compromising who you are.
0:33.7	This show consists of my personal opinions and is meant for informational purposes only.
0:38.3	Always seek a professional for your mental health and well-being.
0:42.3	I have a few emails today and I know I'm not going to get to them all and I don't know which one to start with so I'm just gonna start with something. I'm to read this one and we'll see where it goes.
0:56.0	This is a great way to start off 2024. Not knowing where I am. Great preparation, but let me talk about that for a second. I don't always prepare.
1:08.0	I don't always have a bullet list of what I'm going to talk about. I do have an email and I do pre-read it just to make
1:15.1	sure I can answer it because one of the things that happens is then I'll get, I mean I have hundreds of emails
1:22.0	in my queue right now and I look at them all, I read them all, and I ask myself, can I answer this question?
1:30.0	There are questions that come my way that I've either answered before and if somebody
1:37.0	listens to the show for the first time they're going to think well I never heard that
1:40.2	episode will you please answer that now I do try to keep it fresh though I do try to continue answering questions
1:47.1	that I haven't answered before but I do my best to answer all the questions that I believe haven't been asked on the show on the show
1:55.0	before but sometimes I'll get messages that I don't know how to answer. I mean I
2:02.0	like to think that I can tackle almost anything that comes
2:05.3	my way and that's just probably a little pretentious but I do have opinions and maybe that's why people tune in. Maybe that's why you tune in.
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