The betrayal of relationship trust - Emotional Affairs

The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert

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

4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Emotional affairs almost always lead to pain. They are a betrayal of trust and an escape from the conversation you should be having in your relationship. Sometimes you have to bring up the hard truths so that those involved have an opportunity to find solutions or closure. Either way, it's easier to deal with a hard truth today than string someone along until it comes out in another, more painful way later.

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0:00.0	If you're looking for a show on difficult relationships, we don't have those, do we?
0:04.8	We have difficult relationships in our life, some of them are even emotionally abusive.
0:09.9	If you're searching for something like that head over to loveandabuse.com and check out my
0:14.4	podcast Love and Abuse. Life presents the toughest challenges. Every day you are faced with
0:20.0	decisions that test your ability to express who you really want to be in this world. We're told
0:25.3	to keep saying affirmations and keep thinking positively, but what do you do when that stuff
0:30.8	doesn't work? Welcome to the overwhelmed brain where you'll learn to make decisions that are
0:35.9	right for you so that you can create the life you want now.
0:44.0	Hello and welcome to the show. My name is Paul Coliani and I want to help you increase your
0:56.1	emotional intelligence, handle toxic situations with grace and ease and give you the tools to show
1:01.6	up as your authentic self. Everything on this show consists of my personal opinions and is meant
1:07.1	for informational purposes only. So glad to have you here. Glad that you took the time to turn me on.
1:16.3	Don't take that the wrong way. I mean the show. Thanks so much for tuning in. This is a clean show.
1:21.9	Don't worry about that. I'm very happy you're here. I'm going to talk about at least in this
1:27.4	first segment emotional infidelity or what some people call an emotional affair and this I think
1:35.0	stretches beyond romantic relationships. My perspective of an emotional affair is when the person
1:43.7	that you have a relationship with typically romantic relationship with but somebody that you have
1:51.0	an emotional connection to feels betrayed by your behavior in the sense that you take that
2:01.0	emotional connection that they feel you're supposed to have with them and you share those same
2:07.7	emotions with someone else. This doesn't often happen in regular friendships. I can share my
2:15.8	happy bonding type friendship emotions with my first friend and my second friend and that friend
2:23.0	over there and my friends won't necessarily get offended or feel betrayed. They'll feel betrayed
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