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Published: April 10, 2020, 5 a.m.

Do you sabotage relationships that have potential? Are you risk averse? Do you commit too quickly or are you passively going along with the relationship continuing? Today we're talking about several ways you can sabotage a relationship's potential or you can end in a relationship that's simply not healthy. As this podcast is being recorded when so many of us are staying home with family, we\u2019re enjoying the strengths of the relationships we\u2019ve built \u2013 but also perhaps bearing up under the brunt of ones that aren\u2019t what we\u2019d hoped they would be. Or you're home alone, wondering why certain relationships "never worked."

The listener email today is one that is very timely \u2013 and we\u2019re going to spend a good bit of time on it -- what you\u2019re seeing in your relationships on lockdown. It's from one woman who isn\u2019t able to escape how there\u2019s no sense of partnership or even enjoyment of being together.. and she's therefore lonelier than ever. She wrote me back after this episode was recorded and told me that the podcast on apathy was actually very helpful to her.

Important Links:

Episode 069 on the victim/savior relationship.

Raquel Peel's TED Talk on anticipating failure in relationships

My own podcast on combatting apathy in relationships

You can hear more about this and many other topics by listening to my podcast,\xa0SelfWork with Dr. Margaret Rutherford.\xa0Subscribe\xa0to my website and receive one weekly newsletter including my weekly blog post and podcast! If you\u2019d like to join my FaceBook closed group, then click here and answer the membership questions! Welcome!

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