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2 Be Better

Trauma-Bonded Marriage or True Love How To Handle A Defensive Partner, Heal Together & Know When To Leave S.4 Ep.2

2 Be Better

Chris Burkett

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Education, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the 2 Be Better Podcast, Chris and Peaches kick off Season 4 with real talk about what it actually takes to build a regulated, connected life and marriage. They share behind-the-scenes updates on their growing community, retreats, and content, including the upcoming “I Am Whole” women’s retreat with seminars on feminine embodiment, devotional motherhood and wifehood, shadow work, nervous system regulation, and self-liberation. If you’re craving feminine energy work, women’s retreats, self-care, and practical marriage tools from a husband and wife who actually live this, this conversation sets the tone for intentional growth in 2026 and beyond.

From there, they dive deep into a YouTube comment about a defensive husband with childhood trauma and unpack what “30 years of conditioning” really means, how reactivity forms, and how to talk to a defensive partner without blowing up the relationship. Using real examples from their marriage and a powerful email from a Patreon member in a 22-year trauma-bonded relationship, they tackle the hard questions: how to stop living in survival mode, how to break generational trauma for your kids, what the roommate phase really is, when you’re just not trying versus when it’s actually time to let go, and how to rebuild intimacy by choice, not by accident. If you’ve ever wondered whether to stay, leave, or fight for your marriage, this episode gives you grounded marriage advice, communication scripts, mindset shifts, and perspective on healing trauma in relationships so you can make a clear, conscious decision about your future.

Disclaimer: We are not professionals. This podcast is opinioned based and from life experience. This is for entertainment purposes only. Opinions helped by our guests may not reflect our own. But we love a good conversation.




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0:00.0

Look how far we've come

0:03.0

All the things we've done

0:06.0

Did it all we love

0:08.0

Beauty from the bottom of

0:11.0

All I want is you

0:14.0

You're my favorite view

0:17.0

But that's nothing move

0:20.0

Girl you made my heart and we are back welcome back bumble bitches

0:25.2

season four episode two of the to be better podcast i like the sound of that yeah

0:30.9

season four yeah of the to be better podcast today is december second of 2025, so we're recording this while still in season three technically.

0:41.2

I am putting together a document right now for a year-in-review video, and I went month by month of everything that we did this year and, like, things that need to be talked about.

0:51.6

And I have the overlay, or not the overlay, the bones of what I want to talk about on a document now.

0:59.0

Okay.

0:59.3

So the next thing I need to do is figure out what I want for B-Role so that it's not just me sitting here talking, like, you know, shot of me journaling, a shot of the van, shot of the solar panels in the van, a shot of maybe you serving hoppe

1:11.8

to somebody or our teppies or whatever the case may be. And then once I have that all figured out,

1:17.9

maybe while we're at the retreat or when we get back from the retreat, I want to actually film

1:22.7

a blog style thing of me talking about my urine review.

1:28.7

Why?

1:29.1

I decided that this morning.

1:29.8

It's pretty cool.

1:31.0

I fuck with that.

1:31.9

I also want to do a cinematic video of you doing self-care getting into the bath.

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