XYBM Clips: Black therapist breaks down how social media is ruining relationships
Express Yourself Black Man
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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In XYBM 157, we sit down with Bashea Williams, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Bashea breaks down what he sees most in his sessions with men — from emotional suppression rooted in traditional masculinity to the communication breakdowns that slowly damage relationships over time. Drawing from couples therapy, personal experience, and clinical frameworks, he helps us better understand validation, mirroring, boundaries, and the impact childhood trauma can have on the way we love as adults.
If you’ve ever struggled to communicate in relationships, felt misunderstood, or realized your past may be affecting the way you love today, this episode will leave you thinking differently about yourself, your relationships, and your healing
journey.
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| 0:00.0 | So there's been some times where a couple wants to be the social media couple. |
| 0:07.3 | Okay. |
| 0:08.3 | Where, but their budget doesn't fit it. |
| 0:10.7 | Okay. |
| 0:11.5 | No, it's better to be like, right? |
| 0:15.0 | Because also, right. |
| 0:17.5 | Because they see the trips, they see all the type of stuff, but they don't understand, like, a lot of this is performance based, right? |
| 0:24.4 | A lot of times people have deals with, you know, whatever. |
| 0:31.3 | So, you know, couples coming in, I want to travel. |
| 0:33.7 | I want to, like, why can't we be on an island? |
| 0:35.8 | Why can't we do this? |
| 0:36.8 | Why can't we do that? Why can't we do that? |
| 0:38.3 | And a husband might be like, because I'm trying to pay down his debt. |
| 0:41.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.7 | Right? |
| 0:43.0 | We're, we have so much debt that we're struggling on what we're going to eat. |
| 0:49.4 | And we have put our child into private school or regular school or after school programs. |
| 0:55.8 | Yeah, but I want to see the world. |
| 0:58.8 | Okay. |
| 0:59.3 | Can we plan for that? |
| 1:00.4 | Can we do that in six to eight months? |
| 1:02.9 | We always waiting. |
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