Who Should Feel Luckier In A Relationship? ft. Dre Smith

We Met At Acme

Dear Media

Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Relationships

4.2 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In this episode, I virtually sit down with relationship coach Dre Smith! We discuss saving yourself for marriage, being friends with people you've hooked up with when you have a SO, friends who are mean to your partner, dating a woman who makes more money, how much you need to take care of your man, things that affect our sexual confidence, remind a man that they are needed, dating someone who looks at fitness differently, feeling lucky to be with your partner vs. them lucky to be with you, and more. This episode starts with a solo where I discuss relationship OCD, if you should note vs. talk about red flags, how everyone is pregnant, the correlation between mental health and working out, and more. www.HelloTushy.com/ACME for 10% off plus Free Shipping! www.Mejuri.com/ACME for 10% off your first order! www.DipseaStories.com/ACME for your free 30 day trial! Produced by Dear Media See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:06.4	Hey guys, welcome back to We Men with Acme. I'm so excited for today's episode with
0:11.8	Dray Smith. He is just like a breath of fresh air and has really great
0:17.2	opinions that he shared with us. So I'm excited for you to hear the episode. And before we get
0:22.8	into that, there are some great questions that you guys had submitted. So I will go through them
0:29.3	and answer. Somebody asked, do you have any insight on relationship OCD? I'd be interested
0:35.6	in learning a bit about telling the difference between normal doubts and a relationship,
0:39.4	an abnormal relationship anxiety. This is actually something that's come up a lot on our
0:45.2	Instagram for the podcast recently. I did a video on like ways to know if you might have
0:50.8	relationship anxiety. Let me preface this by saying I'm not a therapist. I don't have a medical
0:57.4	background. I just actually learned about this on TikTok. And I did some research to see if
1:04.1	this is a real thing. And our OCD is a real thing. And basically it's known as relationship
1:11.3	substantiation. And it's a subset of OCD in which sufferers are consumed with doubts about
1:18.0	their relationship. They question their love for their partner, their attraction to their
1:22.4	partner, their compatibility with their partner, and their partner's love for them. Having doubts
1:27.8	about your own relationship or your own partner is very normal and everyone experiences them.
1:33.2	But for OCD sufferers, these thoughts can be irrational, unfounded, and detrimental to day-to-day
1:40.9	life for them. So essentially how it manifests is like obsessive questioning, research,
1:49.1	like Googling articles like is my partner right for me all the time? Comparisons, endless
1:54.6	reflection, seeking passion, like thinking that you don't have this passion with your partner,
2:00.4	always looking for this perfect kind of love and creating rules for your partner. And kind of like
2:08.1	judging them if they don't live up to those rules. And the common misconceptions about
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