Holding Back From Your Partner - 09.26.25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
While good communication is one of the key aspects of
a good relationship, it's not always easy. It's not always easy, guys,
to tell your partner everything. Okay. In fact, most couples
hold back at least something out of fear that they
are going to upset their partner or hurt their feelings.
Now Here are a few examples from reddit dot com.

(00:22):
All right, so listen carefully, and if you guys have
others you might want to add or comment on these.
He needs to set better boundaries for his family or
their problems, and craziness will consume us both. He needs
to set better boundaries. This is a wife saying this
about her partner. He needs to set better boundaries with
his family, with his family, with his family or their problems,

(00:46):
and craziness is going to consume us both. Okay, can
you agree with that?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Oh well, okay, you're talking about my mama? Is that
what you're saying?

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Did you talking about my mom? Exactly? Because you can't
say that somebody?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, right, can you you?

Speaker 1 (01:05):
No? No? Absolutely? Not all right? All right, speaking of mother.
His mother is not a good person, period, say that.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
You can't say that. I think that's because she's not
a good person to you. But he could she could
have been his everything, his all and all. So now
you got a problem. What else you need?

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Man? Some days I'm just tired from work and just
want some me time. Can you say, I know you've
said that, I felt that.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Said I just went and got it.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Well, I've said it that you just want some me time?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, I just need some And like we have an agreement,
you know, because she knows I talk, I do radio,
and then I go do TV all day and I've
been entertaining and talking all day long. When I get
off work, this ain't the time to talk. Now we're
meeting the morning for coffee before I go to work.

(02:09):
We get it all out. But when I come home, Man,
she allows that for me because she knows. Let my
husband get in the front of that TV.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Set his food and do what you want to do.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
And when he come up and go to bed, he'll
come up and go to bed, and she'll come down
there and wake me up. In that off, Steve, you're
sleep in the chair. I don't know how you just
sleep in this chair. But I stepped in the coffee.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Three years nothing. Yeah, all right, So what are some
of the things you wish you could say, but you
know you can't get away with Say that again. What
are some of the things you wish you could say,
but you know you can't get away with them. You
know you can't say you're getting on?

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Come on, I like to shut the hell up. I
like to help him.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
On my blanketed blank nerve.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
And what right you can't say it? Though? All right
you be doing.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Don't try that too soon, too soon, all right, she.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Says, beautiful.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
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