What Happens After the Honeymoon Phase? With Thais Gibson (The Velvet)
Velvet's Edge with Kelly Henderson
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4.5 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The honeymoon phase gets all the attention, but real love is built in what comes after.
In today’s episode, Kelly talks with psychologist and relationship expert Thais Gibson about the 6 stages of relationships, the common patterns that create disconnection, and how couples can move through conflict with more awareness and compassion.
Together, they explore attachment styles, subconscious beliefs, emotional healing, and what it truly takes to create lasting intimacy beyond the initial spark.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:15.4 | Tais Gibson is back. |
| 0:17.3 | She has become one of the leading voices in attachment theory and subconscious healing. |
| 0:21.8 | You guys might remember her from her last appearance on Velvet's Edge where we broke down |
| 0:25.8 | shadow work. I didn't remember, Tais, what we had talked about. And I went back and looked |
| 0:29.9 | and I thought, that was a really good topic. But we talked about how everyone identifying your |
| 0:36.2 | shadow in relationships is so helpful and that can really |
| 0:39.5 | change your relationship. So we're going to do a little more relationship deep dives today. And we're |
| 0:44.2 | talking about the six stages. Every relationship moves through what can make or break them and how |
| 0:50.2 | to move through each one with more awareness and love. Hello. I'm so glad to have you back. |
| 0:55.7 | Thank you so much for having me. I remember leaving our last conversation just thinking like what a |
| 1:00.1 | great talk it was and just what a great host you were and what great questions you asked. So I'm |
| 1:04.1 | excited to hang out and join you today. Well, I just had to start pressing record because we |
| 1:08.4 | started talking about the topic and we felt like we |
| 1:10.9 | were doing the podcast and what I was saying to you was I feel like in the conversations with my |
| 1:16.2 | friends we're having all these conversation about relationship but nobody is really identifying |
| 1:21.0 | any of these stages and we're going to get to that in just a second but instead of identifying that |
| 1:26.1 | oh maybe we're in this stage, people just leave |
| 1:28.2 | the relationship or think this isn't going to work just to go repeat the pattern in the next one. |
| 1:33.6 | So I think this is really important to talk about. And it's not something that I've seen |
| 1:38.0 | widely discussed at all. So maybe let's just start and give the listeners, what are the six |
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