What To Do When Someone Pulls Away
6/23/202646 min
After 33 years of marriage, a woman called in to ask what she should do when her husband won't hug her—and becomes angry when she asks. And y'all, that question opened the door to some really honest conversations about hurt, loneliness, and what we do when the people closest to us don't show up the way we need them to.
We also talk about how to deal with intentionally mean people, helping teenagers stand up to bullies, navigating estrangement with an adult child, rebuilding trust after addiction, and how to know whether something is truly wrong in a relationship or if you're simply questioning yourself.
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Jefferson Fisher· Host0:31
Today I get to answer more questions from the community and y'all, there were some doozies. We got to talk how to handle hard conversations head on. How do you prepare teens for conversations with bullies? How do you handle estrangement with an adult child? How do you handle people who are intentionally mean to you? And lastly, how do you handle people who continue to bring up the past even when it's painful? If you'd like to call and leave a voicemail, I'm gonna put all the information down there in the show notes, or if you'd like, you can leave a comment, uh, wherever you're listening, because my plan is to answer those questions specifically on the next episode. It's gonna be fun. Uh, I'm ready for it. Let's get into it.
Speaker 31:13
I have been married 33 years, and I continually ask my husband to hug me, and he doesn't. And I have tried and tried, and I would like to know how to get him