When Your Partner Can’t Meet Your Needs… Do You Stay or Go?
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | But that's the grace component. |
| 0:01.8 | Ooh, I am fucking mad right now. |
| 0:05.6 | I can feel it. |
| 0:06.4 | Like, where do I feel it? |
| 0:07.2 | I feel it my chest. |
| 0:07.9 | I feel it my stomach. I feel it in my head, right? This is that mindfulness work. And it's like I feel burning. I feel tightness. I feel clenching. I feel fluttering, whatever. and I sit with that and I breathe into that space, not to make it go away, but just to sit |
| 0:22.0 | with it so that I can prove to myself that I can sit with that and I won't die. |
| 0:27.4 | It will pass. |
| 0:29.8 | Can I stay with myself in that feeling of rage and allow myself to know it's okay. |
| 0:36.2 | This is okay. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm John Kim, a licensed therapist who used to be a miserable fuck before going on a |
| 0:44.3 | hero's journey and turning expired relationships into revelations. I use my story to help others |
| 0:49.9 | come with you instead of at you, unrehearsed on purpose, because self-help doesn't have to be |
| 0:56.3 | polished or complicated, just honest. |
| 1:01.4 | So, like, we ended on that exact same problem. Like, and I had a therapist, so at least tell us one, they're sitting down. Like, as I was like, I'll cry and I'll scream, and he'll just like sit there, like emotion lets. I'm like, but won't talk to me like, like a robot. Yeah. And my real, I know a decent key knows, like, how do you even think he knows, it like understanding feeling and so like when i tried |
| 1:30.4 | looking at it through like okay he really just doesn't have any idea like how to deal with this |
| 1:34.5 | or how i respond or like maybe he doesn't even understand how i'm feeling it's he's not able to |
| 1:40.1 | like understand his own emotion yet and that helped me be able to forgive because I |
| 1:45.6 | remember like it's not intentional like why I thought that way when I was just saying I don't |
| 1:49.9 | know like what to do with you like I don't know how I feel is how like you it's easier to |
| 1:56.3 | forgive if you're taking it less personally it's not intentional they're not purpose like at a time |
| 2:00.0 | it's not purpose like it's just like cheating so not intentional. They're not purpose. I get it's not purpose. |
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