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Understanding emotional support, emotional labor, and accountability in healthy relationships.

At some point, relationships can cross a quiet line, where support turns into emotional labor, and partners start feeling responsible for each other’s emotions. In this episode, we name that line and talk about what happens when it gets crossed.

We unpack the belief that love means fixing, rescuing, or carrying someone else’s emotional weight. We talk about how expecting your partner to process your trauma, regulate your emotions, or solve your internal struggles leads to shutdowns, irritability, and defensiveness. Not because either person is “bad,” but because the roles are misaligned.

We also get clear about what your partner can be responsible for:

🔑 What is support and what is therapy?

🤝 Your partner can’t “fix” problems

💔 Feeling responsible for someone’s emotions

🚩Emotional labor and shutdowns

We share how this dynamic showed up in our own relationship, how it created distance instead of closeness, and what changed when we moved that work into therapy and took responsibility for our emotional regulation. The result wasn’t less connection, it was more safety, clarity, and mutual respect.

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Leaving toxic relationships and friendships without carrying shame.

In this episode, we get honest about the relationships we carried throughout the year. The people we trusted, welcomed into our home, celebrated with, and how those connections quietly shaped our relationship for better and worse.

We share real stories about the people we trusted, the relationships we carried through the year, and how ending them came with unexpected guilt, grief, and second-guessing. We unpack how redirecting our energy into therapy, ourselves, and our relationship didn’t just help emotionally, it changed our lives in tangible ways.

You'll walk away learning:

🚩 Why guilt often shows up when you finally choose to walk away.

• And how feeling guilty doesn’t mean you made the wrong decision — it often means you stopped prioritizing other people’s comfort over your own well-being.

💔 How history, ego, and obligation keep relationships alive longer than they should.

• And why walking away can feel uncomfortable, quiet, or lonely before it ever feels freeing.

🔑 How redirecting your energy creates real, measurable change.

• And why sacrificing your old life for your goals create real change, but at a cost.

This episode is about releasing guilt, choosing honesty over obligation, and stepping into 2026 lighter, clearer, and more intentional.

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Survive holiday stress, family chaos, and expectations without losing your joy.

The holidays can bring joy… and a whole lot of bullsht.

In this Bullsht & Banter episode, we’re taking a lighter, messier, more unfiltered look at holiday stress to decompress, because sometimes the most therapeutic thing you can do is laugh at the madness. From family dynamics to unrealistic expectations to why being alone during the holidays doesn’t mean you’re lonely.

We wrapped it up and put a bow on it for you, by talking:

🎄 Coping mechanisms that actually help (and not so serious ones just to make you laugh).

🔑 Boundaries that keep you sane.

🚩 Why finding small pockets of joy might be the only thing keeping you from drop-kicking your ornaments across the room.

This episode is cozy chaos, holiday honesty, and the reminder you need:

You get to celebrate the holidays your way.

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