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Learning to Speak Your Truth: Overcoming Conflict Avoidance

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How to Protect Yourself From Your Wife

"I think our biggest breakthrough. I was sitting there watching in therapy today," he said. "What I'm kind of gathering here is that a guy's probably scared to be vulnerable at home with his wife saying I'm in pain." So instead he retreats and the wife is like but I need time. He ends up kind of retreating into work because he's hurting. And they'll drink or they'll take gummies or they'll smoke weed to try to shut it down. They're sad and they don't want to share this vulnerable piece so they sedate or either with alcohol or drugs or they pour themselves back into work. But ultimately they're like I just want to love

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