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When Your Partner Feels Like an Adversary: How to End Bickering and Disrespect — Alyson and Tripp Lanier
Do you treat the pizza delivery guy with more kindness than your partner?
Do you frequently bicker or cut each other down with biting humor?
And how is this disrespectful behavior killing your aliveness, connection, and sexual spontaneity?
Today Alyson and I discuss the all too common problem of disrespect, resentment, and contempt in relationships. We explore how we can ditch the sniping and bickering and instead learn how to keep things clean, have each other’s back, and handle disagreements with respect.
In this conversation:
- Tolerating disrespect
- Why being polite doesn’t ignore problems
- Jokes that are rooted in resentment
- How contempt is killing sexual attraction
- Anger vs aggression
Plus:
- Making kindness and respect a shared priority
- Jefferson Fisher and dealing with adversarial comments
- Refusing to tolerate disrespect just because it comes from a woman
- Making it okay to disagree with one another
- Knowing that you have each other’s back
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About Tripp Lanier
Tripp Lanier is a professional coach, author of This Book Will Make You Dangerous, and host of The New Man Podcast: Beyond the Macho Jerk and the New Age Wimp which — for over a decade — has been downloaded millions of times.
Since 2005, he has spent thousands of hours coaching people all around the world to get out of the rat race, become an authority in their field, and make a great living doing the work they were put on this earth to do. Over the years he’s designed several businesses to support a simple lifestyle focused on freedom, ease, meaning, and fun.
If you’d like to learn more about coaching with Tripp Lanier visit TrippLanier.com.
About Alyson Lanier
Alyson Lanier is a multifaceted expert at the intersection of psychological and spiritual healing. With a 30 year career in Psychotherapy that includes a BA, MA, and LPC in psychology, Alyson supplemented her education with extensive training and certifications in attachment work, Gestalt therapy, Transpersonal psychology, Shambhala Buddhism, internal family systems, and Psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. Her professional journey encompasses over 50,000 hours of therapeutic experience working with individuals, couples, families, children, and adolescents across clinical and private settings.
If you’d like to learn more about working with Alyson Lanier visit AlysonLanier.com
