Why You Beat Up the One Person Who Isn’t Giving You Approval | The 'NEW' Marriage | Ep445

About this episode

The episode discusses the tendency to treat spouses worse than others and explores the dynamics of approval in marriage.

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. You’re Nicer To Everyone Else Than You Are To Your Spouse! You’re nice to your boss. Nice to strangers. Nice to friends. Then you come home… and your spouse gets the worst of you. Cass was the life of the party—charismatic, funny, “confident.” Then they’d get in the cab…...

People in this episode

Hosts: Cass Morrow, Kathryn Morrow

Topics covered

• marriage
• approval
• relationships
• communication
• conflict resolution

Keywords

• marriage
• approval
• relationships
• conflict
• communication
• toxic marriages
• sexless marriages

Mentioned in this episode

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

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