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The Angry Therapist Podcast

The Importance Of Having Your Own Life

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John talks about the importance of having your own life outside of your partner's.




Roughly ten minutes of self help in a shot glass. If you're looking for a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place. Marriage family therapist and best selling author, John Kim, shares his life and love revelations as well as insights from his sessions. He pulls the curtain back and documents his journey as a therapist but more importantly, as a human being.




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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own rebirth many years ago

0:05.6

and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life lessons and revelations.

0:10.3

I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose

0:16.4

because self-health doesn't have to be so complicated.

0:21.1

A lot of sticky happens because we don't have a life and by sticky I mean

0:26.7

co-dependency, emeshment, jealousy, control. I want to let you know that no one owns the relationship and I

0:36.3

think this is one of the greatest misconceptions and it's not something that we

0:39.6

are maybe consciously thinking and it's a slow drip right it happens over time no one goes

0:44.4

into a relationship thinking thinking they own it that's not what I'm saying

0:47.7

it's not what happens but you get into a relationship and you start to lose your life, right?

0:56.1

And slowly, and so the relationship kind of becomes your life, right?

1:00.3

It becomes the sun that you revolve around.

1:02.4

And if that's the case then if something

1:04.5

goes wrong in the relationship or if there's some kind of conflict then it means the

1:08.6

world because that becomes your life and when this happens we start to lose ourselves in the relationship and this is so

1:15.0

common. Remember you're sharing your life with your partner, you are not exchanging your life

1:20.4

for your partner. One of the things that I say the most as a relationship coach is to

1:25.9

get a life and I don't mean that in a dickish kind of way. I mean it sincerely. I think so many of us fall into a relationship and lose our own lives

1:36.6

we actually have a responsibility to carve out our own life for the relationship to thrive, right? So many of us

1:46.4

depend solely on our relationship and that relationship to bring us joy and

1:51.0

happiness that we start to lose ourselves and we start to lose our

1:56.8

sense of purpose meaning you are sharing your life with your partner again not

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