Stop Making Marriage the Goal - (With Bridgett Blood)
About this episode
Bridgett Blood discusses the importance of self-connection in relationships and challenges the myth of compatibility in marriage.
Bridgett Blood is back — a year older, a year braver, and now specializing in the work underneath the work. She's traded a leap-of-faith move to Nashville for certifications in story work, narrative-focused trauma therapy, and Christian sexual health, all aimed at singles, daters, and engaged couples. This episode isn't really dating advice. It's about the thing beneath every relationship you'll ever have: you can't show up authentically in romance while you're disconnected from yourself. Bridgett, Glenn, and Phyllis dismantle the myth of "compatibility," name why doing love in psycholation is so costly, and get unusually honest about Glenn and Phyllis's own early marriage — the quiet, the roles nobody chose out loud, and what might have been different if they'd learned themselves sooner. In this episode: Story work, and why what happened to you at six is still steering your cyclone at forty Why "stop making marriage the goal" is a healthier starting line than it sounds The compatibility myth — why two matching pieces of paper can't survive Wednesday Psycholation: doing romance, marriage, or sex alone, and why it's a Connection Codes red flag Self-contempt vs…
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