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Elizabeth Earnshaw - The Problem With Modern Relationships

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How to Avoid the Trappings of Not Pathologizing Your Husband

When we pathologize, we're actually using contempt, right? Because contempt is the act of taking a superior position and telling someone who they are. When we start to speak to our partner like that, the normal human responses to either respond with shame or defensiveness,. So you're not going to go anywhere they're not going. It cascades into lots of conflict, isolation, all sorts of stuff. And so if you can start to recognize the ways in which you use criticism or contempt and learn to actually talk about what you observe, what you're feeling, what isn't working for you any more, anything beneath that label, you can describe what's beneath that label.

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