When Love Feels Like Work (And When It Shouldn’t)
About this episode
The episode explores the balance between healthy relational effort and emotional burnout in relationships.
Send us Fan Mail We’ve all heard it before: “Relationships take work.” But what kind of work are we talking about? In this episode of In Session, we unpack the difference between healthy relational effort and emotional burnout. When does love require growth, communication, and repair and when does it quietly turn into over-functioning, anxiety, and self-abandonment? We explore attachment styles, emotional labor imbalance, trauma patterns, and how to tell if you’re building something mutual… o...
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Hosts: Gabrielle Williams, Charice Calloway
Topics covered
- relationships
- emotional labor
- attachment styles
- communication
- self-abandonment
Keywords
- relationships
- emotional burnout
- attachment styles
- communication
- emotional labor
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