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#145 Getting Out of Your Way and Getting More Love By Knowing Your Parts | Toni Herbine-Blank, MFT

SuperPsyched with Dr. Adam Dorsay

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I'm Going to Teach My Partner a Lesson They Cannot Treat Me This Way

I love the idea that these parts have served a purpose even if they seem very counterproductive at this stage in life. They probably evolved from a very honest place and are now providing insulation from rather than intimacy with a relationship. One of the top survey answers would have to be I'm going to teach my partner a lesson by hurting them or taking a two by four to their head. We try to teach our partners something like this we try to get our partners to listen by taking a twoBy4 to their head but it's years and years of frustration not being heard.

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