How to Deal With Rejection in Relationships

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I'm no more worried about being rejected by an audience than I am by my partner you know constantly even though he's shown no. We have a joke about it because I regularly dream that he's dumped me all the time oh my god that's really hot oh all the time but we have this thing I say as long as it's dream map that's being an asshole we're fine. It's something that's I think was definitely a downfall in in relationships in my 20s when I was just so needy and clingy and I've had to learn not to be. And also it's about finding the right person the person who is secure enough in himself to be able to go on

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week Katherine chats to Angela Barnes, podcaster, comedian and regular panel guest on Mock The Week (and much more!).

Angela Barnes has zero tolerance for anyone reassuring her that she's pretty - it talks over her lived experience, and does nothing to change her self-perception. Here, she discusses living with Persistent Depressive Disorder, which has made her whole life feel like the drizzly English climate, but which has also made her more able than most to endure the hard-knocks life of a stand-up comedian.

A very cheerful chat which always zeroes in on the important points with lazer focus, picking up on where Angela is in the greater pandemic situation, working with her PDD, building daily frameworks, having a comedy tribe which normalizes certain behaviours and actions, fear of rejection, CBT, entitlement, TV, the perils and - well, perils of social media, and the notion of beauty on a grand scale.

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