You Don't Have to Love Your Boyfriend Unconditionally

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People, you do not have to love your boy friend unconditionally. That's a recipe for being treated like shit and calling it honorable. If you're in a relationship with some one only because of the label it carries, sister, cousin, father, you don't have a relationship. You have an obligation. So you might have obligations throughout your life, but don't tell yourself it's an unconditional love relationship,. Oh, okay, let's hear from our first pod squatter. Let's hear from delaney. Like abbi, i've always been a peple pleaser, and i'm now working through that. The rod lalk i keep running into is, how

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About Nedra:

Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW, is a New York Times best-selling author, licensed therapist, and sought-after relationship expert. She has practiced relationship therapy for 15 years and is the founder and owner of the group therapy practice, Kaleidoscope Counseling. Every day she helps people create healthy relationships by teaching them how to implement boundaries. Her philosophy is that a lack of boundaries and assertiveness underlie most relationship issues, and her gift is helping people create healthy relationships with themselves and others.

Nedra earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. She has additional certifications in working with families and couples and in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, plus advanced training for counseling adults who've experienced childhood emotional neglect.

Nedra has appeared as an expert on Red Table Talk, The Breakfast Club, Good Morning America, and CBS Morning Show to name a few. Her work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Vice and has appeared on numerous podcasts, including Good Life Project, Sofia with an F, and Therapy For Black Girls. She runs a popular Instagram account where she shares practices, tools, and reflections for mental health and hosts weekly Q&As.

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