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Speaker 1: For me. I spent those seven years trying to prove

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Speaker 1: to a lot of people and myself, Oh, I really

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Speaker 1: am a good person. I'm Lori Gottlieb. I'm the author

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Speaker 1: of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, And I write

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Speaker 1: the Dear Therapist advice column for The Atlantic. And I'm

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Speaker 1: Guy Wench. I'm the author of Emotional First Aid, and

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Speaker 1: I write the Dear Guy column for Ted. And we're

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Speaker 1: coming back with another season of Dear Therapists, with all

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Speaker 1: new sessions studying maintence. Just like in real therapy, it's

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Speaker 1: impossible to predict what's going to happen. When you wrote

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Speaker 1: to us and you were saying that you had this

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Speaker 1: pattern of still choosing unavailable men, you were engaged. Yes,

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Speaker 1: this season, we're helping our guests deal with hostile expouses.

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Speaker 1: My ex wife is not happy about the fact that

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Speaker 1: I am engaged to anyone, and she's not happy that

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Speaker 1: I'm engaged in particular to Little losing a parent. I

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Speaker 1: think I spent a long time just crying because they

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Speaker 1: really did feel like, after all that time, we still

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Speaker 1: had that special connection that I had when I was

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Speaker 1: a kid. Displaced rage. It's not healthy for our daughter.

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Speaker 1: You need to get therapy or we're going to leave

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Speaker 1: so that I can protect her. We'll also bring you

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Speaker 1: updates from our season two guests so we can all

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Speaker 1: hear what's happened in their lives over this past year.

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Speaker 1: I think after our talk, I really was looking at

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Speaker 1: myself and it's taken some adjusting, but it feels really

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Speaker 1: good to be in a relationship where both of us

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Speaker 1: can give so Our advice to you right now is this,

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Speaker 1: Subscribe to de your therapists on the I Heart Radio app,

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