We Did 6 Months of Therapy—Why Isn’t He Breaking the Pattern? | Marriage Q&A | Ep440

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of breaking relationship patterns despite undergoing therapy, featuring a caller's experience with her husband's emotional affairs.

Text us your questions or topics for the show! We got you! Cass Morrow, Author of Disrupting Divorce: The NEW Man. Saving Struggling, Sexless, and Toxic Marriages. Kathryn Morrow, Author of Behind The White Picket Fence. How To Break Patterns! Six months of therapy. Trigger lists. Boundaries. The same conversations on repeat… and the pattern is still there. Kerry called in about her husband Alex: not a physical affair, but emotional affairs and fantasy at work—the “friendly guy” pattern t...

People in this episode

Hosts: Cass Morrow, Kathryn Morrow

Topics covered

• therapy
• marriage
• emotional affairs
• boundaries
• relationship patterns
• communication

Keywords

• therapy
• marriage
• emotional affairs
• boundaries
• relationship patterns
• communication
• toxic marriages

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Disrupting Divorce: The NEW Man, Behind The White Picket Fence

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