How to Tolerate Your Partner's Anxiety

When we're anxious, our tendency is to pull our partners close and kind of hold on. But one that sort of almost pushes our partner not a way that encourages them to go out and explore different avenues with the idea of returning. Can you just give your partner two or three minutes at a time where you don't interrupt? Is there someone else you can talk to? Is there a different avenue you can explore through this real kind of gentle push for the person to fix it on their own? And this really does predict how well couples go to the second transition.