3138: Are You in an Unhealthy Relationship? by The PsychAlive Team on Relationship Red Flags |...

Get the 200+ Page Optimal Living Daily Workbook (PDF) - Free.

Want to turn today's episode into an actionable plan? Join the Optimal Living Weekly newsletter and I'll send you our 200-page digital workbook immediately. It's packed with the best takeaways from the show, formatted for easy reading and implementation at home.

Get your free PDF workbook here: https://oldpodcast.eo.page/join (https://oldpodcast.eo.page/join)

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com (https://oldpodcast.com/)

Episode 3138:

The PsychAlive Team walks through the warning signs that a rough patch has hardened into an unhealthy relationship: less eye contact, less physical affection, communication breaking down, and a couple starting to speak as though they are one person. They explain Robert Firestone's concept of the fantasy bond, where two people keep the form of closeness while the real feeling drains out of it, and why deep fears of intimacy quietly push us there. They close with how to tell whether the relationship itself is the problem, or whether it is the way the two of you relate.

Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.psychalive.org/unhealthy-relationship/ (https://www.psychalive.org/unhealthy-relationship/)

Quotes to ponder:

"A fantasy bond replaces real acts of love and affection toward your partner with an illusion of connection."

"Being vulnerable to someone leaves us feeling vulnerable to the world."

"You may be surprised to find that it isn't the relationship that is unhealthy but the ways you relate that are unhealthy."

Optimal Relationships Daily is a daily relationship advice podcast where we narrate the best articles on healthy relationships, dating, marriage, and parenting, read to you by a professional narrator so you can strengthen your closest connections a little more every day.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (https://megaphone.fm/adchoices)

Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/35230316?utm_source=youtube Receive SMS online on sms24.me

TubeReader video aggregator is a website that collects and organizes online videos from the YouTube source. Video aggregation is done for different purposes, and TubeReader take different approaches to achieve their purpose.

Our try to collect videos of high quality or interest for visitors to view; the collection may be made by editors or may be based on community votes.

Another method is to base the collection on those videos most viewed, either at the aggregator site or at various popular video hosting sites.

TubeReader site exists to allow users to collect their own sets of videos, for personal use as well as for browsing and viewing by others; TubeReader can develop online communities around video sharing.

Our site allow users to create a personalized video playlist, for personal use as well as for browsing and viewing by others.

@YouTubeReaderBot allows you to subscribe to Youtube channels.

By using @YouTubeReaderBot Bot you agree with YouTube Terms of Service.

Use the @YouTubeReaderBot telegram bot to be the first to be notified when new videos are released on your favorite channels.

Look for new videos or channels and share them with your friends.

You can start using our bot from this video, subscribe now to 3138: Are You in an Unhealthy Relationship? by The PsychAlive Team on Relationship Red Flags |...

What is YouTube?

YouTube is a free video sharing website that makes it easy to watch online videos. You can even create and upload your own videos to share with others. Originally created in 2005, YouTube is now one of the most popular sites on the Web, with visitors watching around 6 billion hours of video every month.