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Chapter 1: How can I improve my emotional connection with my spouse?
You used all the right, good, counselor-y words. Tell me what you're really struggling with, like day to day. What's up? Hey, everybody. This is John, the Dr. John Deloney Show. Hope you're doing well, and I hope the world you find yourself in is one where you're safe, when you're having fun, and you're finding some joy, some laughter somewhere in this wild, wild world.
Hey, Kelly, when is Election Day? Are we past it? We're recording this show early.
Yes, this show publishes on the 22nd of November, so we'll be a few weeks past it at this point.
So I'm making a prediction. We still won't know who the president is because everyone's going to sue everybody and be mad. And you think?
Yeah, because I think it's going to be, that's valid because I think it's going to be a close election. So I think that I can see that happening.
I'm feeling a landslide in my guts. I love that we can put this like down because we'll know, right?
Yeah, by this time we'll know.
Like when I was talking trash about my Astros, by the time it published, your Rangers had won.
Yeah, it was a good memory.
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Chapter 2: What should I do if my friends don't reach out in a crisis?
And some people I know who I consider brothers consider very close to me.
who weren't affected at all, their jobs are intact, water, power, resources, all intact, just didn't really show up the way I've shown up for them in the past, or, like, you know, I thought they would, like, I needed it, I could lean on them, not the case at all, and it's not a tear-for-tat thing, but it's, like, wow, like, this was a life-altering, region-altering, like, generational, like,
Yeah, but let me throw this out there too, Felix. You're also spending a lot of energy by yourself with no distraction for the first time probably in years, maybe even in your lifetime.
Yeah.
No internet, no TV, no light to read by at night, just you and your thoughts. And if that gets thrust upon you, it's really easy to sit there and begin to create stories. And what you don't know is if those buddies texted and called and called and texted and got in their cars and drove and they faced roadblock after roadblock and had to turn back and had to turn back and had to turn back. Right.
And they may have reached out a thousand times. And they may have heard from a friend of a friend. No, no, no. Felix is all right. I checked in with him. I went and saw him. He's good. And they were like, oh, thank God. And they're waiting for you to reach out that the power's back on. So here's the thing.
You're literally creating a story in your mind, and then you're trying to solve for that story. And what I would suggest is if these guys are your close buddies, maybe pick up the phone and call and be like, bro, where were you? I would hope that my closest, closest ride or dies would give me that. Before they cast judgment on me, they would at least reach out.
I can appreciate that. Yeah.
And just be like, bro, you didn't show up. And if they say, dude, I had my own crew. All right. Then they're, then they're, they're letting you know their true colors. Exactly. But you might hear, dude, we went, we, we went to hell and back trying to find you. And we found out through my friend of a friend, you are right. And we went to help so-and-so.
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Chapter 3: How do childhood experiences affect adult relationships?
If you just go marry somebody, it creates a whole other issue. But yeah, she's struggling and just like, look, here he is. He's great. See? And not trying to vomit all over her kids, but she did, right?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. So the first thing is I would let your husband walk through that. My hope is one day he can be happy that mom finds somebody new.
You know, that's the interesting thing is we kind of have the best of both worlds. He doesn't want her to be alone, and so he's glad that she's with someone. But on the other hand, he doesn't want to see it, doesn't want to talk about it, doesn't want to be part of it.
And so he gets to do that.
Yeah, 100%.
And at some point, mom may say, hey, here's one of my boundaries. I'm married now. This is my new husband. This is my new life. I want you a part of it, but I can't just take my husband and carve him out.
and so um hopefully they can negotiate that navigate those boundaries over time it's just it's just a messy season hasn't been a year yet right yeah yeah um here's the second thing tell me about you did you did you love this guy was he scary like tell me about your relationship with him i love that man dearly yes he was scary but i loved him dearly he's kind of a
Yeah.
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