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Oct 2023
42m 57s

75: 10 ways to control your partner

NATALIE KENNEDY
About this episode

I really should have titled this, "10 ways Natalie is controlling." Ha! I hope you enjoy this episode. If you want to practice trusting your partner more, I give you 10 examples of ways to do this based on mistakes I've made. Listen to this episode, save your energy and breath and grant yourself relational/marital peace.

 

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Time Stamps:

2:45 Thinking of my unsolicited feedback as helpful

5:00 The difference between letting go of control and tolerating disrespect

7:56 Trying to control my partner’s bedtime and waking time

16:06  Policing my partner’s food choices

18:01  Coaching my partner when we are out having fun

20:01  Undoing what my partner does and redoing it

21:40  Sending my partner relationship advice

24:00  Making sure that my partner did what his mother asked of him

25:20  Telling my partner how to act towards his friends

26:45  Controlling how my partner cooks

29:00  Trying to have my partner open up and have a deep conversation against his will

31:55  Trying to get my partner to be more present with me

39:30  Hosting a mindful movement class in Orange County

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