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This is doctor Wendy Walsh and you're
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Doctor Wendy Walsh Show on demand on
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Doctor Wendy Walsh Show and KFI AM
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iHeartRadio app. Just a reminder,
follow me on social media. My social

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is at doctor Wendy Walsh. That's
at Dr Wendy Walsh. I will be

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going to social media, specifically my
Instagram and TikTok to look for your relationship

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questions. I'm not going to use
your name. It's okay. I'll keep

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you anonymous. But if you have
a question and want me to weigh in

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with my drive by makeshift relationship advice, I'm happy to do that, all

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right. I did mention earlier in
the show that if you're in a long

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distance relationship there's a big red flag. One is well too, if your

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partner wants to track you in some
way and get passwords your social media to

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really cyberstock you because they feel insecure
about the distance. Don't do it.

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Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't sacrifice you. But the other

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thing is, let's talk about those
sec explicit photos and videos. I'm going

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to tell you a personal story about
this. Yes, even me. In

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the early days before we even had
cell phones, when we had cam quarters

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and VHS tapes, I had a
long distance relationship with a hunky actor who

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was taping very far away, and
he begged me to produce a video with

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him. Yep, just what you're
thinking, the two of us. Mhmm.

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It was not pretty, just because
women are not visually wired. I

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looked at him like that is gross, and he said, I love it.

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I love it. So anyway,
then we broke up and then spent

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the months of terror in my heart
and soul where I begged him to destroy

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this video. He has assured me
it's destroyed if it turns up on the

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internet. Oh well, I'm an
old lady now who cares. But he

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has assured me that it is destroyed. But here's the worst thing. He

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had to put salt on the wound
because after I was nagging him and nagging

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him and nagging him, in his
final like lettered goodbye. Yeah, we

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wrote hard letters even before email to
me, he said, I'm really mad

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that I had to burn that videotape. Because there was other stuff on that

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tape that I wanted. I know, what a jerke, right, what

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a jerk. Anyway, it was
an excruciating few months of my life.

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So I'm going to tell you right
now, don't do it. Here's what

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the law says about this. If
you send somebody a video, it is

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now there's it's a gift. You
don't own it. You gave it to

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them as a gift. They can
put it up on a revenge porn site

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if they want and make money off
your sexually explicit pictures. Now, the

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new trick that guys are doing is
in the heat of the moment, they

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think it's cute and funny to pick
up your phone videotape or take photographs with

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your phone, and while you're lying
there in the aftermath of glow because you've

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had such a great time, they
text the pictures to themselves and now they

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prove that you've just given them a
gift. It happens, It happens.

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So I'm telling you, I don't
care what kind of lung does this relationship

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you're in. Do not send sexy
pictures or videos because you're going to be

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applying for that job at the Supreme
Court someday and out it will come just

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saying just don't do it. I
made the mistake. It was awful.

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Don't do it all right. If
you believe the Internet, you would believe

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that a full eighty percent of men
in relationships right now are narcissists. There

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is an obsession with narcissistic personality disorder, and women all think they're dating a

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narcissist. But narcissists only make up
about one or two percent of the population.

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And so I want to break it
down. What are called narcissistic behaviors

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or features, and a true narcissist, a true narcissistic personality disorder. Right,

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So basically, it's defined as a
pervasive pattern of grandiosity, either in

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their own mind or how they behave
a need for constant admiration. And the

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big one, and this is where
women get a little crazy lack of empathy.

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You see women fall in love with
guys they're hooking up with, and

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they think he's in love too,
and then they can't figure out why he's

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separated the sex with it anyway.
They think he doesn't have empathy. And

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men can separate it very easily and
show very little empathy, and there you

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are having all your feelings of love. Now here's what the diagnostic and statistical

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manual and mental disorder says that you
have to have five or more of the

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following to actually been to be diagnosed
as a narcissist. Five or more.

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I'm gonna list you nine things you
gotta have. Five One a grandiose sense

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of self importance. Exaggerates achievements and
talents, expects to be recognized as superior.

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Number two is preoccupied with fantasies of
unlimited success, power, brilliance,

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beauty, or ideal love. Three
believes that he or she is special and

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unique and can be own understood with
other high status people. Yeah, you

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see a lot of the celebrities.
They got to be in the club and

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be with other famous people. Number
four requires excessive admiration. Yeah, you

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gotta kiss the ring. You got
to bow down to them. Number five

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has a sense of entitlement, unreasonable
expectations of especially favorable treatment. Six is

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interpersonally exploitive. Oh yeah, this
one. They take advantage of other people

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to achieve their own ends. Number
seven they lack empathy or unwilling to recognize

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or identify with the feelings or needs
of others. Eight they are often envious

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of others or believes that other people
are envious of them. Nine they show

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arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.
Of those nine things, you have to

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have five to be diagnosed as a
narcissist. But narcissism is a spectrum,

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and people can have one or two
of these things and have sort of narcissistic

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features. Right, So, here's
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In case you've ever been in this
cycle, it really is. I

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think it's an abusive cycle. It
starts out with what some psychologists might call

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an idealization stage. That's where they
it's too soon, too much, too

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soon. They connect with you super
fast, it's all about love. They

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make you feel unique, they put
you on a pedestal. They love bomb

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that's what we call that love bombing. They make you feel like the most

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special person and that it's sudden and
intense. Then once they have you hooked,

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they start to erode your sense of
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devaluation stage, where the narcissist slowly
makes you feel totally insecure and devalued.

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They criticize you weird, a little
passive aggressive behavior, backhanded compliments. Yeah,

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that's pretty good for someone to early
went to high school. You're pretty

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smart, right, A little stuff
like that, or stonewalling, ismissing,

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cutting you out, they won't talk
and you're so frustrated. Then there's the

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repetition stage. They want to make
sure that the devaluation is working. So

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what they do is they do a
weird cycle of I call it warm fuzzies

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and cold pricklies. So they start
out being nice and then just when they

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know they got you hooked again,
they do negative behavior. And then you're

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lying in hope for more niceness.
So you stay clingy with the back and

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forth. And finally, if you're
lucky, I want to say this.

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If you're lucky, comes the discard
stage, where they just reject you completely

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or suddenly decide they have no use
for this relationship. I know it hurts,

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but you're saved. Some people stay
in these kinds of relationship patterns for

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years and years. Sometimes it may
even involve domestic violence. If this sounds

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like you, I want you to
call or text the National domestic violence hotline

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called the hot Line, because I
don't want you to stay in a dangerous

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relationship. But for the rest of
us, some people just have a few

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little traits here and there. Hey, when we come back, I am

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going to social media. I'm going
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this is the moment of truth.
Going to social media to take your questions

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about your relationship. Just to remind
you everybody, I don't have a license

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to practice therapy. I'm not a
therapist. I'm a psychology professor. But

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i have read a lot about the
science of love, and I'm of a

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certain age and have a certain degree
of wisdom. Yes, I'm your old

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auntie, doctor Wendy Auntie, Doctor
Wendy. I think one of my nephews

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calls me that. Actually, if
you would like to send a question in

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just the DM, what do we
check in Instagram today mostly or TikTok or

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Instagram TikTok, all of it?
Okay? The hand Deliveryhe is at Dr

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Wendy Welsh at Doctor Wendy Welsh,
so I haven't seen these ahead of times,

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so you never know what I'm gonna
read out loud. Here we go,

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Hey, doctor Wendy says this person. I have communication problems, for

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example, difficulty listening and understanding,
difficulty assuming ownership, and difficulty reserving the

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time and space to have healthy conversations. That sounds very Did you type that

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out of a textbook? It doesn't
come naturally to me and my wife?

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Me and my wife, now I
know that didn't come out of a textbook.

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Oh oh, doesn't come naturally to
me, and my wife is getting

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sick of it. How can I
work on my communication skills? Easy?

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Go see a license therapist. Honestly, I learned to have emotional communication just

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by seeing my therapist. I started
therapy when I was pregnant with my first

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daughter. I was in and out
for eighteen years, and the level of

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conversation that you have about emotions in
therapy is the thing that teaches you.

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And also the two of you could
go to couples therapy and that person can

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watch you talking to each other and
sort of figure out where the mismatches what

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you're missing out now. Highly recommend
that, dear doctor Wendy, being in

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different stages of life is taxing on
my relationship. We're growing apart in terms

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of interest and life goals. We
don't feel connected and I can feel the

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impact on our relationship. Are we
doomed? Nobody has a crystal ball,

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Nobody can say if you're doomed or
not. It's very interesting that you say

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you're in different stages of life.
So I'm wondering if this is a May

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December relationship, whether we've got an
older partner and a younger partner. You

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know, I always say that a
relationship is over when you stopped growing.

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Have you stopped growing in this relationship? And here's the other thing. Healthy,

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happy, long term committed relationships actually
are predicated on the fact that each

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partner has to have permission to grow
separately and then bring that new growth into

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the relationship, back into the relationship, right, You got to head out

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into the world and get stories to
tell when you bring home. You have

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to be curious about yourself and your
growth. So you're talking about your interest

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and your life goals. Let's talk
about interests first. You can have other

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friends common interest friends for your interests, and then you can come back to

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your relationship and tell your person about
that. But the life goal thing is

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interesting because I think at least every
year a relationship has to sit down and

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you have to have a discussion about
where are we going, what's our plan?

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Are we on track for that?
And you almost have to rewrite your

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relationship contract from time to time.
Anyway, I don't have a crystal ball.

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I can't say if you're doomed or
not. But I'm wondering if you're

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doing the work to try to bring
the connection back or are you outgrowing the

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relationship? And only you will know
the answer to that. Dear doctor,

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Wendy, a little jealousy here and
there is normal. Well, we can

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debate that, but excessive jealousy has
turned my relationship into a dreaded daily battle.

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Listen to how you're talking about your
love life, the person who's supposed

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to support you, the wind beneath
your wings. You know, an exchange

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of care has become a dreaded daily
battle. Then you go on to say

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she is controlling, angry, and
overbearing. I think she lacks self esteem.

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Yes, that's what pullice do.
She is jealous regularly. How do

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I get her to be more secure? I love? That's the question.

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How do I get her to change? When are these people going to learn?

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You're not supposed to change anybody else. You're not supposed to change their

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behavior having a boundary? Is you
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So it starts with making a request. Wasn't I just talking about this today?

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You start by making a request.
When she says where have you been?

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Who have you been with whatever?
You'll say it doesn't feel comfortable for

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me to come home from work and
hear you worry about me being unfaithful to

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you. I'm going to ask you
to stop doing that. Then if she

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doesn't follow the request, then you're
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of the room whenever I hear this
conversation because there's no validity to it.

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And then you might even say to
her if you want to get into therapy,

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or you should go to therapy,
whatever, you could do that too,

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all right, just saying it's don't
do the dreaded daily battle, nor

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is it. It's not your responsibility
to be your partner's therapist. You're not

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supposed to heal them. That's dysfunctional, that's codependent. You're supposed to think

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about what your needs are and have
a very clear reaction, a boundary how

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much you can tolerate what you're going
to do. Instead, because you're not

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forced to stand in the same room
with her and listen to this, you

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can walk away from a human being. You can break up with them.

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There's all kinds of things you can
do if it gets that far. But

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you need to think about where your
boundary is, where your tolerance level is,

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and then from there make a decision
about what your reaction is going to

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be. But you will drive yourself
crazy if you're just trying to change her

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dreaded daily battle. That sure doesn't
sound like a love relationship. That breaks

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my heart. All right, I'm
going to continue with your questions when we

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We'll be back with more. You're listening

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to Doctor Wendy Walsh on demand from
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you love talk radio. Before I
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I have to say something about the
importance of AM radio and I have

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to share something. I actually don't
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This was a big problem for me. This is my job, this is

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my work. Plus I love talk
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work around for me and I hope
it's the workaround for you sometimes if you

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were ever in this situation is you
can download the iHeartRadio app and then use

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Bluetooth to listen to KFI through the
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regular basis. I listen to Handle
in the morning all the time using that.

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But we want to make sure that
AM radio stays in cars for a

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very good reason. More than eighty
million Americans depend on AM radio. We

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need it for our news, our
traffic, weather, sports, and for

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me, the most important thing is
a community connection. Did you know that

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AM radio is still the backbone of
the emergency alert system if there's if anything

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goes down, right, the Internet
goes down, your WiFi, your Bluetooth,

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whatever. It is critical that we
keep AM radio in cars because this

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is a free emergency service and it
could be your lifeline. Look if there

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was a god forbid an earthquake and
all the cell sites went down, what

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are you going to do. You're
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You're going to find out where to
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etc. Now here's how you can
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You need to text the letters am
AM AM radio to five two eight

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eight six. That's five two eight
eight six, that's the number, and

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you just text the letters AM and
this will tell Congress that we need AM

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radio to stay in cars five to
eight eight six. I also want to

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add that this message is from my
heart, but also furnished by the National

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Association of Broadcasters and KFI. I
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let me get back to your relationship
questions. These are from I believe Instagram

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and a couple of them from TikTok
At. Doctor Wendy Walsh is the handle

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if you want to follow me,
Hey doctor Wendy. Watch I love how

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they hey me, Hey, Hey, doctor Wendy Walsh. The monotony of

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repeating the same activities daily with the
same person has become boring. My relationship

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has become too comfortable and unimaginative.
I don't want to leave it on board

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to tears. How can I find
my fun in him again? You know,

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my mother used to say when I
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long summer days when I was so
bored, I'm bored. I'm bored.

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And she used to say, if
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be exciting. Make some excitement.
Okay, this is another question. How

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can you get him to do something? You're saying, how can I find

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some fun in him? Again?
You know what researchers would say, take

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him out, put your put your
spouse in any new novel situation. I

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mean, you don't have to sky
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go to a museum, go hiking, to a garden club, a wine

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tasting club I don't know, go
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know. Just get him out of
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they look different in a novel situation. You know, this is funny thing.

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Did you know if a baby is
less than eight months old, you

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don't have to buy them new toys. All you have to do is move

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the toys to a different room,
and to the baby's mind, it's a

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whole whole new toy place because it's
in a different schema and in the same

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way, your husband will look like
a brand new toy if you just get

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him out of the house doing something
anything. But you are fifty percent responsible

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for the boring in your relationship.
So the question is what can you do

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to be more fun and more happy? You know, you could put on

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music and dance while you're cooking dinner
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liven it up, liven it up, as my mother would say. If

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you're bored, you're boring. It's
terrible. Oh here's one I can totally

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relate to this one, Hi,
doctor Wendy. From a hey to Hi,

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Hi doctor Wendy. I have been
my boyfriend's barbie, and I hate

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it. Nobody wants to be controlled
or likes to be told what to do,

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how to dress, or where to
spend their money. He controls everything.

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He oversteps my boundaries up, but
I allow it. What can I

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do? Always say this conversation about
boundaries to day, and we had a

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whole seg when we're talking about boundaries. All right, So he's not overstepping

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your boundaries. He's overstepping your requests. He's ignoring your requests. That's the

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difference. Right. So what you
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right, you need to have.
It's not a punishment. You need

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to basically say, if you do
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So yeah, and there's that other
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This is where you and your therapists
need to talk about it is your fear

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of losing him greater than your fear
of having your own self respect, your

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own sense of self, your own
ability to control your life. If your

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fear of abandonment is bigger, you
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do what he says. You know, you've got to be strong because you

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might be surprised. You might be
surprised that he might actually like the new

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you when you start to own that
new word. No, uh huh,

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that's a good word. But you
also can't just nag. You have to

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do something like walk out of the
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how to dress, wears something different, and see what he does. Just

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see what he does. That's what
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I have time for one more,
Dear doctor, Wendy, I got married

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after knowing my husband for three months. Whoops. Then she writes, I

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know you're going to say it was
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have differences in religion, politics,
childrearing, and the basic definition of right

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and wrong. We all grew up
differently with unique morals, values, beliefs,

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and goals, but we don't see
eye to eye on anything. Can

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we make this work although we are
so different. Well, here's the answer.

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Anything is possible as long as the
two of you want to make it

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work. If both of you want
it, and you mentioned childrearings, you've

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got kids, you got a very
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I would highly suggest for you guys
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I believe absolutely that if both people
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said before that a relationship can change
if one person doesn't want to go to

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therapy but one person does, because
that person can go and learn all kinds

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of skills, tips, tricks,
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If you go to therapy. So
even if you're going to say to

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me, while my husband doesn't want
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different, then you go. That's
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answer your questions. You could write
to me on my social media anywhere.

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The handle is at doctor Wendy Walsh. That's at dr Wendy Walsh. Also,

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if you want to join my Patreon, Patreon dot com slash doctor Wendy

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Walsh. We do a Wednesday night
Zoom group. That's a lot of fun,

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and I post some blogs and stuff
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come on over there. All right. When we come back, where are

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we going after this? Oh?
How do you know you're in love?

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Believe it or not? I get
this question a lot. How do you

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know it's true love? I'll tell
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You are listening the Doctor Wendy Walsh
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We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio Appum, you're listening to Doctor Wendy Walsh

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on demand from kf I AM sixty. Welcome back to the Doctor Wendy Walls

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Show on KFI A M six forty. We are in the home stretch already.

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I feel like we got through so
much magnificent sex. We got through

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a lot of interesting questions. We
cleared up that question about whether you're dating

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a narcissist, because most of them
aren't narcissists. They're just selfish, you

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know, not full diagnosis, but
we love to call them that. One

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of the questions I get a lot
is is this true love? Is this

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really love? Am I experiencing love? Now? We know that love is

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a thing, right, it has
biological piece that has psychological piece, that

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has sociological piece. The biological is
what happens in your brain when you get

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this cocktail of neurohormones that feel so
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It reminds you of something familiar from
your childhood, and hopefully you had

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secure attachments in your childhood, so
this is a good thing you're replicating.

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And then sociological it's like, oh
my god, they look so good on

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paper, they have the right job, if they live in the right zip

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code, they have the right politics, the same diet. Oh my god,

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we're so much alike, right,
So all of those things interplay when

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it comes to love. I do
believe there is no such thing as a

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soul mate. It's not like this
one person. It's just that when your

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brain gets this cocktail of neural hormones
and you see this person and you're really

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attracted to them, you start to
think, oh, it must be my

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soul mate. But that's part of
a delusion of love. There's been so

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much research on the science of love. I'm going to highlight some of it,

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and let's go through some scientifically proven
signs that you're in love. Number

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one, believing that this one special, see that soul mate thing, so

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once a lifetime that I'll meet this
person. Actually believe that this person you

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met is so unique and interesting.
And actually one article in the Archives of

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Sexual Behavior said that it shows it's
because of elevated levels in the central dopamine,

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a chemical involved in intention and focus
in your brain. So thinking your

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lover, this person you met is
special is part of the love recipe.

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Then this focusing on the positive,
all right, I would say not looking

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close enough at the negative. So
what happens is love is actually a delusion

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that makes your brain a little bit
irrational. And when you first meet somebody,

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they can do no wrong. And
in fact, any negative information that

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you're presented with at the beginning of
falling in love, you dismiss or refute

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it in some way. There's been
lots of research to support this. But

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here's another sign that you're in love. You're kind of emotionally unstable, all

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right? Are you bouncing around between
feelings of euphoria, increased energy, sleeplessness,

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then sometimes anxiety, panic? Are
they going to call back? Is

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it going to happen? Right?
A racing heart, you've got it all

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right. That's what it feels like
at the beginning emotional instability. Here's an

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example. One time, I was
falling in love with somebody as Machenga,

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and I had a job at I
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the promotions guy. I know that. Every Wednesday, the promotions guy,

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I give him my copy or I
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does a promo for whatever my weekend
show is or whatever. And I had

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lost track of the days of the
week. And I was driving in the

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car with my beloved, the new
hot guy that I was with, and

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my guy called my promotions guy's like, where are you supposed to here doing

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a voiceover? And I literally didn't
know the day of the week or where

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I was supposed to be, but
I was in such a love cloud.

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I remember literally saying to him,
dude, we'll do it next week,

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Like who cares about one. It
was like someone had given me a drug

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and I would high. And that
is so out of character for me.

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I'm punctual, I'm reliable, I
get things done. Yeah, that's the

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emotional instability. What else intrusive thinking
where you can't stop thinking about the person.

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That is a sign you're in love. I know you're going to ask,

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but when is it an obsession and
when is it actual love? It

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depends on you know, it is
love. It's all love. Even obsessions

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are love. It's just that if
your model for love from early childhood is

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filled with, you know, some
kind of pain or whatever, maybe you're

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going to be more obsessed. Oh
here's another example of love. You kind

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of start to become emotionally dependent on
what that person does or thinks. You

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might get a little possessive, you
might feel jealous. Sometimes you might deeply

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fear rejection. You might have separation
anxiety. You know what Doctor Helen Fisher

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at the Kinsey Institute, she loves
to say that the areas that life up

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in MRI machines in the brain when
someone is falling in love, they are

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the same areas that light up with
like a cocaine addiction. Right, it's

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the same thing. It's like a
drug dependency. Well, now it's an

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emotional dependency. Here's my favorite one. You're planning a future together. Okay,

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I know it's a joke. The
teenage girls practice, well we did

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back in the day. They probably
don't do now. They used to take

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their first name and the boy's last
name and do missus in front, right,

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and they'd practice the signature like,
this is going to be my future

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signature. Me I just plan on
how much of a mortgage we could qualify

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for. I don't know, but
planning the future, thinking in your mind

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where it's going to go down the
road. You see, if it's not

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real love, you're like, I'm
here for today, out tomorrow, not

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planning a future. Another sign you're
in love is having feelings of empathy.

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Right again. Doctor Helen Fisher discovered
that there are significant patterns in brain active

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for people who are in love.
She calls them mirror neurons. Mirror neurons

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where and you know when we talk
to the sex researcher earlier, when she

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was talking about this sense of you're
having great, magnificent sex and you don't

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know where your skin ends and the
other person's begin. And that comes from

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having deep empathy and empathetic empathic connection. There, I'll get it out.

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So if you're actually sensing and caring
like the other persons that they have a

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bad day and you feel it in
your stomach, that's real empathy, and

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that's a sign of love. Also, on the negative side, you'll get

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a little bit possessive. Possessive feelings. Are you desiring sexual exclusivity? Are

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you do you have extreme jealousy.
I'm not talking about dangerous jealousy. You're

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not turned into a stalker, right, You're not violating somebody's privacy. I'm

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just talking about little feelings of Oh, they didn't call tonight, I wonder

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where they are tonight. Yep,
that's a sign that you're in love.

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You also sometimes feel out of control. Love is a risk. I believe

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that part of the reason why so
many people fall into these situation ships,

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these undefined relationships, is because they're
so afraid of this feeling of being out

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of control, being able to trust
someone, being able to depend on somebody

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else for their emotional needs to help
meet and care for them. And I

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tell you, jump in, take
the plunge. Love is the best drug

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we have. It's free, it's
the best thing for your health. Thank

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you so much for being with me. It is always my pleasure to weigh

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in on your love lives. Every
Sunday. I'm doctor Wendy Walsh. I'm

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here on KFI every Sunday from seven
to nine pm. You've been listening to

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Doctor Wendy Walsh. You can always
hear us live on kf I Am six

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forty from seven to nine pm on
Sunday and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app