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Apr 2024
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281. How to Take a Healthy Relationship ...

Dr. Abby Medcalf
About this episode

If you’re like me, when you think of a relationship break, you’re remembering Ross Gellar on the show Friends, screaming, “We were on a break!” Well, let me tell you, that was not the right way to take a relationship break. But there is a healthy way to take a relationship break and you do it by asking (and answering) three important questions.


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