Your Marriage Isn’t Failing, You Are S4 Ep11

2 Be Better

Chris Burkett

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

This episode of the 2 Be Better Podcast dives headfirst into the uncomfortable reality of grief inside a marriage, especially when loss, trauma, and unresolved wounds collide. Using real listener emails, Chris and Peaches unpack a husband’s intense grief after losing his mother, the emotional disconnect it creates with his wife, and how unprocessed pain, a history of TBI, and mismatched grieving styles can quietly erode intimacy. You can expect raw conversation about masculine grief, emotional regulation, anger, resentment, and why trying to rush healing often makes things worse rather than better.

The episode also tackles boundaries, responsibility, victim mentality, and perspective through a second email involving family conflict, control, and dependency. Chris challenges the listener narrative hard, questioning entitlement, gratitude, and personal accountability when living under someone else’s roof. Expect blunt truths about boundaries with parents and grandparents, parenting disagreements, food, discipline, and why avoiding hard conversations creates long-term damage. This episode is for listeners who want real growth, not comfort, and who are willing to look at how their interpretations, reactions, and choices are shaping their relationships.

Disclaimer: We are not professionals. This podcast is opinioned based and from life experience. This is for entertainment purposes only. Opinions helped by our guests may not reflect our own. But we love a good conversation.

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0:00.0	Look how far we've come, all the things we've done,
0:05.0	did it all we love,
0:09.0	beauty from the bottom of, all I want is you,
0:14.0	you're my favorite view,
0:17.0	but that's nothing move.
0:20.0	Girl, you made my heart more and we are back
0:23.6	Welcome back Bumble Bitches
0:25.6	Season 4 episode 11
0:28.6	I think of the To Be Better podcast
0:32.6	So real quick guys, nope not real quick
0:35.6	because this is not going to be real quick
0:36.6	It'll be as long as it takes Okay How do I want to do this? So if you are not watching live on Patreon, we are 52 minutes into this recording as of right now. That entire 52 minutes is not going to make it to YouTube as part of this episode. There's a whole lot of stuff that was cut out that is strictly for Patreon, things about your women's retreat, other things that we've got going on. Some of that may make YouTube as clips just to talk about your women's retreat. We'll see. But if you guys are not a part of our Patreon community, you're missing out on a lot. We have a Discord channel there that's got over a thousand people in it, and it is a true tribe. We are one day going to have our entire community
1:13.5	set up through Patreon and the only thing that will get released to social media will be our regular
1:17.4	podcast on Monday and everything else will be behind the paywall because we can have real
1:21.8	honest conversations and not have to worry about being demonetized and like play that game. Right,
1:26.5	right. At that point we're taking the
1:27.9	power of our creativity into our own hands and not giving it to a platform that can censor us or
1:33.8	tell us we can or can't do something so obviously that's the goal for everyone is to be able to have
1:38.5	full control over their creative freedoms um so if you're not a member of our patreon or discord
1:42.6	community highly recommend that you go check that out.
1:44.3	You can go to 2Better.com forward slash join and you'll be able to see all of that.
1:48.8	And then I think we should just jump into emails.
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