Can Your Partner Affect Your Self-Esteem?

About this episode

This episode discusses how relationships can influence self-esteem and offers insights on protecting the confidence of loved ones.

Send us Fan Mail People love to say: “No one can affect your self-esteem because it’s called self-esteem.” But relationships absolutely influence how confident or insecure someone feels over time. Not because they are weak. Because they are human. Healthy love should not make you question your worth. It should reinforce it. In this episode we talk about the subtle ways couples unintentionally damage each other’s self-esteem, and how to protect the confidence of the person you love. Beca...

People in this episode

Host: Shaleea Venney

Topics covered

• self-esteem
• relationships
• confidence
• love
• mental health

Keywords

• self-esteem
• relationships
• confidence
• love
• mental health
• couples
• insecurity

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