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Jul 2020
29m 47s

5. When people say "Maybe you should lea...

NATALIE KENNEDY
About this episode

When I was in the thick of Relationship Anxiety, comments like:

  • "maybe you should leave"
  • "maybe he's just not the right person for you"
  • "you're young, maybe you just need to explore"

were enough to send me into a gut-wrenching spiral of anxiety. In this episode, I get to the root of why this is so painful and also how you can respond.

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