Helping Out of Love or Ego? How to Talk About Your Partner Without Destroying Your Relationship

Main subjects

AMAlexander MineevAVAlexander VolchekCouples and healthy relationshipsLove, help, and rescuing othersPAPartnerHelping out of love or ego

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00When is discussing a relationship helpful, and when is it destructive?
• 03:00"I'm going to a psychologist!" But with what intention?
• 03:46The listener's role: why it doesn't depend only on the speaker
• 05:52What is real support?
• 06:35What do you choose: winning or finding truth?
• 08:35Words spoken out of emotion
• 12:11The only way forward: responding to "aggression out of emotion"

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• 00:50

  Truly understanding and resolving it does not mean improving the situation for yourself, making it better for yourself, or obtaining the best possible outcome for yourself.

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• 05:26

  If those friends are reasonable and act from love and truth, they will show the person that her behavior and what she is saying are inappropriate, that she shouldn't act that way, that she needs to show respect, including toward her husband and the other person, and genuinely examine…

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• 07:02

  She always made this point: "I can help you take this action, but you will bear responsibility for it."

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• 09:33

  But people in the world really are in different states, and this has been called "speaking out of emotion." Yet emotion is a very fine line.

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• 10:42

  Whatever the circumstances, however much we discuss this particular case, the person carries malice toward others because they said it.

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• 11:02

  It is important to understand that going to a psychotherapist or psychologist does not mean telling other people that someone else is a monster.

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• 11:20

  What matters here is understanding that someone who speaks this way emotionally has an unhealthy inner state and is struggling.

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• 11:37

  Again, as I said, on one hand, it may be deliberate and intentional, and the person may fully believe it.

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• 11:46

  On the other, people can sometimes say certain words relatively unconsciously. But that person definitely needs to work on their own state.

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• 11:56

  Whoever the other person may be, however badly they behave, wherever they are, that does not give anyone the right to express such extreme aggression in this situation.

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