Why We Run In Relationships

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John and Vanessa answer listeners' questions and talk about why people run in their relationships.

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Roughly ten minutes of self help in a shot glass. If you're looking for a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place. Marriage family therapist and best-selling author, John Kim, shares his life and love revelations as well as insights from his sessions. He pulls the curtain back and documents his journey as a therapist but more importantly, as a human being.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own
0:04.3	rebirth many years ago and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life
0:08.9	lessons and revelations. I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose
0:16.2	because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated.
0:18.8	Before we start let me ask you what are three things that a relationship must survive or it won't survive?
0:35.0	Mm.
0:37.0	Different attachment styles, so different emotional responses to triggers.
0:46.0	Right, that's one.
0:48.0	Different sexual appetites or like needs in the bedroom so being able to
0:57.9	communicate that to each other so by survive surviving the differences
1:02.4	surviving the contrast.
1:04.0	Right?
1:05.0	Okay.
1:06.0	And number three.
1:07.0	A willingness to be comfortable in expansion and contraction.
1:16.5	Ooh, so mine was distance.
1:27.0	So if your partner goes away for two weeks and there's going to be conflict, a distrust, jealousy, any of that, I don't think the relationship is sustainable, and also emotional
1:34.6	distance because sometimes we need some distance.
1:37.8	Contraction.
1:38.8	Yeah, so that actually is overlaps.
1:41.8	My number two was fights, which is obvious, right? Not just the big
1:49.1	fights that we get into, but just you know the bickering, day to day if you can't if your relationship
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