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Episode 169: Learned Helplessness & Sex ft. Sam Tielemens

Bare Marriage

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Do You Ever See People Blaming Their Spouse or Externalizing All the Reasons?

I think most of the time people present their defenses when there's so much more going on underneath that. I remember working at a clinic, I saw him in Las Vegas and Salt Lake City is about seven hours from us. He tells me that pornography has been a coping mechanism in his life for his entire life. And if it wasn't for this, he probably would have committed suicide because he had no way to deal with his pain other than just numbing out and watching his stuff online.

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