Ask Dr. Gina

Ever watched your partner react to something small like it was something huge? Or felt your own reaction come out of nowhere? Sometimes the fight happening today started long before you met. In this episode, Dr. Regina Ransom talks about how past wounds from family, old relationships, and painful experiences can quietly shape the way we love, and answers some of the questions she hears most from couples living with it.

You'll learn:

• Signs the past is driving reactions in your relationship
• Where these patterns come from, and why the body remembers
• Answers to real-life questions, like "How long do I have to pay for what someone else did?"
• What the partner carrying the past, and the partner beside them, can each do
• A simple "then and now" conversation to try this week

Have a question about love or marriage? Send it through Fan Mail and it may be answered on a future episode. Learn more at adeeperus.com.

A Deeper Us is for education and encouragement and is not a substitute for counseling. If you are in danger, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233. If you are in crisis, call or text 988.

Not sure where your relationship stands? Take the free 3-minute quiz: Are We Stuck, or Starting Over? https://nbfc-couples-quiz.netlify.app/

Ready to reconnect? The 30-Day Reconnection Plan, 15 minutes a day for couples: https://stan.store/newbirthfamilycounseling/p/the-30day-reconnection-plan

Want months of progress in days? Learn about private couples intensives with Dr. Ransom at adeeperus.com