Why Opposites Don't Attract PLUS Tony's New Parenting Course is Part of Nate Bagley's Relationship Mastery Pack!

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Tony shares why opposites don't attract in the long run and why ultimately we like people who are more similar to us. PLUS Nate Bagley, relationship researcher and host of the Growth Marriage podcast, comes on to talk about his incredible Relationship Mastery Pack https://www.epicmarriageclub.com/a/2147499720/h3Cn8yaE Get thousands of dollars in relationship tools for one special Black Friday price featuring Tony's brand new parenting course: 3 Keys to Positive Parenting - Bring the Positivity without Messing Up Your Kids Even if You're Not Sure Where to Start! Go to https://www.epicmarriageclub.com/a/2147499720/h3Cn8yaE to sign up for thousands of dollars worth of relationship tools for less than the cost of one therapy session. In today's episode, Tony refers to the article "Do Opposites Really Attract?" by Clifford Lazarus Ph.D. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/think-well/201907/do-opposites-really-attract and "Why Do We Like People Who Are Similar to Us?" by Gwendolyn Seidman Ph.D. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/close-encounters/201812/why-do-we-people-who-are-similar-us With the continuing "sheltering" rules spreading across the country, PLEASE do not think you can't continue or begin therapy now. http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch can put you quickly in touch with licensed mental health professionals who can meet through text, email, or videoconference often as soon as 24-48 hours. And if you use the link http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch, you will receive 10% off your first month of services. Please make your mental health a priority, http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch offers affordable counseling, and they even have sliding scale options if your budget is tight. You can learn more about Tony's pornography recovery program, The Path Back, by visiting http://pathbackrecovery.com And visit http://tonyoverbay.com and sign up to receive updates on upcoming programs and podcasts. Tony mentioned a product that he used to take out all of the "uh's" and "um's" that, in his words, "must be created by wizards and magic!" because it's that good! To learn more about Descript, click here https://descript.com?lmref=v95myQ

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0:00.0	Okay, hey, here is a law that you may not be aware of in the state of California.
0:04.0	Only the person who is on the registration of a car can have a new key made for said car if you
0:10.0	have lost all of your keys.
0:11.0	So it was with that new information that I found myself barreling down Interstate 5 this past Friday night
0:16.0	on my way to Southern California to spend some time with one of my daughters.
0:19.0	And it was on this trip that my daughter
0:21.6	and I, while sharing some wonderful fruit and waffles at a quaint Long Beach breakfast restaurant,
0:27.7	were waiting for the locksmith to arrive. And while we were waiting for the locksmith to arrive,
0:32.0	we were contemplating life and friendships and how complicatedly wonderful and frustrating that relationships could be in general.
0:39.3	What I'm going to go into detail today is on why relationships can be so complicated.
0:45.1	And what is it that we don't know that would surely help us with determining not only our
0:49.4	potential love relationships, but our friendships in general.
0:53.4	We're going to talk about that and so much more coming up on today's episode of The Virtual
0:56.7	Couch.
1:18.6	Come on in and take a seat on the virtual couch.
1:23.2	Hey everybody, welcome to episode 295 of the virtual couch.
1:26.3	I will be up front with you before we get to the heart of today's episode.
1:28.2	I am going to digress.
1:31.3	I'm going to bring on a friend of mine, and I would say friend of the podcast.
1:33.0	He is a marriage researcher.
1:39.5	His name is Nate Bagley, because Nate reached out to me with a pretty incredible deal a couple of weeks ago,
2:17.8	and it is something that I can't pass up of making you aware of. So without any further ado, let me interrupt this episode with a quick interview of Nate Bagley. And we're recording. There's no countdown. Nate Bagley, how you doing? Great. How are you, Tony? Good. It's good to see you again. We've only talked to each other for real two or three times, but yet I feel like such a connection. And I, I like to think of myself as a very energetic person. I feel like you've got me beat hands down. Oh, I don't know, man. We're texting each other yesterday, and all of a sudden I want to create 10 more courses. I want to solve all the world's problems. And then I just, because within just a couple texts, all of a sudden, sudden I've got somebody on the I've got my web guy on the line and we're we're going to change
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