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Encore: Ep 3 - Mike's Messy Affair

Dear Therapists with Lori Gottlieb and Guy Winch

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How Did You Feel About Your Relationship With Mike?

I think he had a pretty overbearing personality and I don't think I wanted to rock the boat as enough or cared enough to kind of like assert my own opinions into the relationship. So I tricked myself into feeling like it was actually for the better that we were separating and that we would be a better apart. And then after your daughter was born, you start to realize that actually it's more directed towards her and not towards you. What did that feel like? That must have been painful. Probably I think it was easy to not look directly in the face because of how excited I was about being a mother.

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