When Love Is Built in Survival Mode… Can It Survive Healing?
Dear Tisia
Relationship Restored
5.0 • 866 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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In this episode of Dear Tisia, we’re unpacking what happens when love is built in survival mode — and what it takes to move forward when healing begins.
🩺 One woman opens up about beating stage 4 cancer — only to feel trapped in a relationship that still sees her as fragile. What happens when care turns into control, and how do you reclaim your identity after surviving something that changed everything?
💍 Another caller’s world is shattered when her partner of 16 years confesses to cheating just one week before their wedding. We talk about betrayal, forgiveness, and how to grieve the future you thought you were walking into.
🧾 And we explore the emotional limbo of separation — when a husband has moved on romantically but won’t fully let go emotionally, leaving a woman stuck between hope, fear, and finally choosing herself.
✨ In B*tch You Smell Good, we feature Casablanca by Swiss Arabian — a warm, caramel-apple, amber scent that mirrors this episode’s themes of depth, sweetness, and emotional complexity.
🚩 In the Red Flag Report, we unpack the quiet divorce of social media couple Kristy Scott and Desmond Scott, and ask the bigger question:When love is performed publicly but falls apart privately, what was the real red flag — the actions, the communication, or the image?
👇 Let’s talk about it.
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| 0:00.0 | I this is this is what I stand on I feel like some things we need to hold on to right and I think that |
| 0:08.1 | even just in our past it's like childhood things and I always talk about how when I was younger |
| 0:14.3 | I used to be so ashamed of like poverty and growing up poor and then I grew up and I realized how resourceful it made me oh why am I getting |
| 0:23.4 | emotional I realized like how much sharper I was from than other people right I realized that like |
| 0:30.4 | literally shit like heating up my house with my stove made me quicker than every fucking body else |
| 0:36.0 | I was literally out here with other adults that shit went wrong and they like, what do I do? |
| 0:40.9 | I'm like, bitch, what you mean? |
| 0:41.7 | You're going to do this. |
| 0:42.3 | You're going to do that. |
| 0:42.7 | Like it made me so much sharper, right? |
| 0:45.3 | And I feel like they're still a part of holding on to a little bit of things that you have experienced, |
| 0:55.9 | the walls that you've run against. |
| 0:59.7 | And that's people, places, and things, that's feelings, that's emotions. |
| 1:06.5 | And I feel like sometimes those things still deserve a part in your heart DNA because they will help you in the future. |
| 1:08.0 | And that is why I don't think that everything should be forgiven. |
| 1:11.2 | And I don't think that I'm riding on the inside because of it. |
| 1:35.8 | Hey. Hey y'all. Welcome back to Deer Tsea. We're going to jump right into it. We have some subscription reminders. Follow Deer Tisiya on Apple and Spotify. Leave us a five-star review. We want |
| 1:43.8 | you to subscribe to Relationship relationship restored and subscribe to my |
| 1:47.2 | YouTube channel which is under tasea xbx20 we are introducing our guests for today who is from |
| 1:55.3 | Nate will love y'all know him for just being deep in tune with his emotions. You talk a lot about masculinity and |
| 2:07.1 | feelings. How would you describe it? Yeah, I would describe it as masculine vulnerability. |
| 2:12.9 | Masculine vulnerability. Deep. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. We're going to get a little bit into that anywho we have our listener |
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