Should You Stay or Leave? The Truth About When NOT to Break Up
4/27/202639 min
Thinking about leaving your relationship? Before you do, Jillian challenges the idea that walking away is always the strongest move. She breaks down when staying—and doing the deeper work—is actually the more courageous choice, and how to tell the difference between a relationship that’s truly wrong and one that’s asking you to grow. Download Jillian’s FREE limerence workbook, http://jillianturecki.com/workbook Join my community and membership, The Conscious Woman Submit your relationship question for Jillian at https://forms.gle/FbtgkGTwfnrjvHwW7 Order Jillian's book It Begins with You: The 9 Hard Truths About Love That Will Change Your Life at https://www.jillianturecki.com/book ~~ Follow the show on: Instagram: @jillianonlove Threads: @jillianturecki YouTube: @jillian.turecki Email the show at hello@jillianonlove.com Subscribe to Jillian on Love+ on Apple Podcasts or Patreon ~~ Follow Jillian Turecki on: Instagram: @jillianturecki TikTok: @jillian.turecki X: @JillianTurecki Visit her website at jillianturecki.com ~~ Jillian On Love is brought to you by QCODE. To advertise on the show, contact us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsJillian Turecki· Host0:00
[gentle music] So in today's episode, I'm gonna talk about, um, when I think people should stay in the relationship that is struggling and try to work it out. As many of you might know, that I have a lot of content about, you know, the bravery that it takes to walk away from a relationship that's not working. Um, last week's episode, I talked about how important it is to let go of the wrong person and to choose yourself. And all that is true, but there are also circumstances where the most courageous thing to do is to stay in the relationship and work on it, and working on a relationship really is working on ourselves. It's, um, working on the parts of us that are afraid that we're not enough, uh, resistant to change, the parts of us that, um, that is very dominated by the ego, that doesn't want to, um, take responsibility, uh, the parts that we have to sort of overcome the hurt parts of ourselves to see how maybe we have been hurting the other as well. It takes a tremendous amount of courage to stay in a relationship. It takes a lot of