Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. Got a little bit of a dun-dunt topic for you.

We're going to talk about signs that a relationship might be failing.

Listen, not trying to get anyone's anxiety to spike. Why? Things are hard enough already.

It's that time of year and people are trying to partner up cuffing season, which means everyone wants someone to snuggle with, spend the holidays with.

I get it. I get it.

We've talked a lot in the past couple weeks about dating apps, dating culture, relationality.

So this topic, I know relationship is failing, is really about forecasting and having the ability to prevent it from happening, identifying if it is so that you can

kind of roll it back. I think that's what a lot of the work really is, is understanding what to look

for so that, you know, we're in trouble. Work is needed. So it's never ever about pointing the finger,

blaming others. It's first about us assessing ourselves. So let's make tonight's topic a question of,

are you doing this before we go, oh, my partner's

doing this.

But more importantly, to assess again and where your relationship is, thereby deciding

what your relationship might need.

I think what's really great about psychology and relationalities that there's a plasticity,

meaning you're never, let me say differently, meaning that however things are now is not how they will always be.

The dark side, the shadow side of that is that things can always get worse. They really can.

But things can also definitely get better. And that's what we're going to talk about tonight.

So although the entry point is a little negative because it's signs that things are failing, it's really about breathing in some hope. Because that's what we need

these days. We need to feel better about what's happening, feel better about what's around us,

and have a sense of control and power. So, all right, we're going to get into it. So there we are.

Here's what to look for. So again, before I get into it, let me just quickly remind everyone.

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