You're Coming to My Birthday Party! More on the Magnet Marriage's 4 Pillars of a Connected Conversation

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

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

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Tony shows how putting the 4 Pillars of a Connected Conversation, one of the key components of his Magnetic Marriage Course (http://tonyoverbay.com/magnetic (http://tonyoverbay.com/magnetic)) together with your abandonment and attachment programming from childhood can create a pretty incredible conversation, relationship...and birthday! And did you realize that returning Christmas presents could actually be a way to connect? Please subscribe to The Virtual Couch YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheVirtualCouchPodcast/ (https://www.youtube.com/c/TheVirtualCouchPodcast/) and follow The Virtual Couch on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/virtualcouch/ (https://www.instagram.com/virtualcouch/) This episode of The Virtual Couch is sponsored by http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch (http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch) With the continuing “sheltering” rules that are spreading across the country PLEASE do not think that you can’t continue or begin therapy now. http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch (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 (http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch) you will receive 10% off your first month of services. Please make your own mental health a priority, http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch (http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch)offers affordable counseling, and they even have sliding scale options if your budget is tight. Tony's FREE parenting course, “Tips For Parenting Positively Even In the Not So Positive Times” is available NOW. Just go to https://www.tonyoverbay.com/courses-2/ (https://www.tonyoverbay.com/courses-2/)and sign up today. This course will help you understand why it can be so difficult to communicate with and understand your children. You’ll learn how to keep your buttons hidden, how to genuinely give praise that will truly build inner wealth in your child, teen, or even in your adult children, and you’ll learn how to move from being “the punisher” to being someone your children will want to go to when they need help.Tony's new best-selling book "He's a Porn Addict...Now What? An Expert and a Former Addict Answer Your Questions" is now available on Kindle. https://amzn.to/38mauBoTony Overbay, is the co-author of "He's a Porn Addict...Now What? An Expert and a Former Addict Answer Your Questions" now available on Amazon https://amzn.to/33fk0U4 (https://amzn.to/33fk0U4). The book debuted in the number 1 spot in the Sexual Health Recovery category and remains there as the time of this record. The book has received numerous positive reviews from professionals in the mental health and recovery fields.You can learn more about Tony's pornography recovery program The Path Back by visiting http://pathbackrecovery.com (http://pathbackrecovery.com) And visit http://tonyoverbay.com (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 (https://descript.com?lmref=v95myQ)

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0:00.0	So did you know that you can actually return Christmas presents?
0:04.0	Let me set the stage.
0:04.9	It's a couple of months before Christmas, 2020, and I really wanted to get my wife something good,
0:09.8	something that I think that she has always wanted, a Mrs. Pac-Man game.
0:14.2	Now, my wife Wendy is not a big gamer.
0:16.1	We've been married 30 years.
0:17.3	We did play some Mario games early in our marriage. And I remember coming home from
0:21.3	classes in college. We were newlyweds. This would have been in 1990 or 1991. And we were playing
0:27.0	one of the Mario games probably on the original Nintendo. I don't really remember the exact console.
0:32.0	She was working to put me through school. And sometimes we would have just a few minutes between
0:35.7	me getting home from school and her heading off to manage a women's clothing store in the mall.
0:40.4	So we'd check in, see how far one of us got on Mario, and pass along any tips or tricks that we thought the other might need to know that because we were starting to head our separate ways.
0:50.0	And I continued, as many males do, to really enjoy playing video games.
0:54.2	But as the consoles became more complex, the games more intense, Wendy didn't seem as excited
0:59.3	about gaming over the years and having a shared experience around a video game all but
1:03.5	disappeared. That is, except when we found ourselves maybe playing wee tennis later on in life
1:08.6	or even today, or Mario Kart.
1:12.2	But that's not the point of the intro.
1:18.5	When we're out and about, Wendy has been known to routinely defeat me on a game called Mrs. Pac-Man.
1:24.2	Like to the point of frustration, I don't understand why I cannot beat her in this game, Mrs. Pac-Man.
1:25.9	Regular Pac-Man, I've got a chance.
1:27.8	And Mrs. Pac-Man, I don't know, she holds some power over me. So when I started seeing the stand-up arcade games go on sale for just a
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