Latest / Beyond the Facade with Choose Recovery Services and Blueprint Institute / 30: I Wish My Partner Had a Softer Approach
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- 0:00Hey y'all, I'm glad you're here and I had a question for you.
- 0:04So have you ever wondered why your partner doesn't approach
- 0:11you in a more soft, kind way? Because if she did, then maybe
- 0:16this would work a little bit better than coming at you maybe
- 0:19directly and feeling so intense about her approach.
- 0:22You ever wonder why she doesn't just show up more soft and see
- 0:25that? That's what we're going to talk
- 0:27about today. Welcome to Beyond the Facade
- 0:32podcast. I'm your host, Luke Gordon, and
- 0:35I'm thrilled to have you join me in the space today.
- 0:37What we're going to be doing is diving deep into the trials and
- 0:39triumphs and truths of seeking authenticity.
- 0:42Becoming your true self isn't about a single action or a
- 0:45moment. It's a relentless pursuit, a
- 0:48commitment to self that reveals the rich connection and meaning
- 0:51that our life has to offer. So whether this is your first
- 0:53time tuning in or you're a regular listener, know this.
- 0:57What you're building here goes beyond a conversation.
- 1:00You're here to challenge, to change, and to celebrate the
- 1:02incredible journey of becoming your authentic self.
- 1:05Because when you dare to show up fully, the rewards are
- 1:08immeasurable. So welcome to Beyond the Facade.
- 1:11Let's get started, Hallie, welcome to Beyond the Facade
- 1:15podcast. I'm really excited to have you.
- 1:17Here. Thank you.
- 1:19Thanks for having me. Excited to be here.
- 1:21I've known Hallie a very long time.
- 1:23I don't know what I guess it relatively long time and I had a
- 1:27chance to be around her a lot of respect for the work that you do
- 1:31Hallie you for those of you who don't know Hallie, she leads our
- 1:36helper heal groups that choose recovery services and from the
- 1:39feedback that I get from men is she can see both sides.
- 1:42It's nice to be able to talk to somebody that's been through and
- 1:45experienced betrayal trauma, but also understanding what the
- 1:47person seeking recovery a little bit of what their experiences
- 1:52like to and could be validating. Hallie, anything you want people
- 1:54to know about you before we start to dig into some of this
- 1:56content? Not really, I think they can.
- 1:59If you want to know more, you can find my bio on the choose
- 2:02team page. And if you want to check out my
- 2:05other podcast or my podcast, I host with one of our other
- 2:08choose calling Stephanie Hamby. We Co host the Choosing to Stay
- 2:13after Infidelity and Betrayal podcast and join us over there
- 2:16if you want more. Our target audience is couples
- 2:18who are working through recovery because we know even if you
- 2:22choose to stay, it doesn't mean it's easy.
- 2:24So I can talk about topics like. Does not mean you've been doing
- 2:28that for a bit now, haven't you? Yeah, I think we're almost 80
- 2:32episodes now, a little over a year.
- 2:34We do a celebration for 100. I don't know I I would have to
- 2:38think about that, but we should. Good stuff.
- 2:42Yeah, thank you for being here. OK, so the topic we have set us
- 2:47up for. So you lead the helper heal
- 2:49group and there's this reoccurring theme that can show
- 2:54up. And do you mind setting us up
- 2:56with it, Hallie? Yeah.
- 2:59So I not only see this in my helper heal groups, which I love
- 3:02the helper heal groups. I love working with the the guys
- 3:06who are really working hard to rebuild trust and create safety.
- 3:10And I hear it there, but I also see it in some of my couples
- 3:14coaching sessions or even from the betrayed partners who say he
- 3:17thinks I'm attacking him. That's not what I'm doing.
- 3:20And so the dynamic is that when, and I hate to talk in like
- 3:28gender specifics, but just for the ease of conversation, we're
- 3:31going to go with the betrayed partners, the wife and the the
- 3:34one who's working to rebuild trust.
- 3:36Is the husband OK for ease of conversation?
- 3:39But when she is maybe has a concern, she might be activated
- 3:44by something, She might be having a lot of strong emotions
- 3:48and she comes to him with either she needs some clarification or
- 3:53she has some hurt, she has some pain that she wants to express.
- 3:58I often hear from the guys that she's coming at me, she's
- 4:02attacking me. I don't know why she gets so
- 4:05aggressive. And what I have come to
- 4:09understand is that it feels like an attack and I suspect that
- 4:14it's triggering some shame underneath there.
- 4:17And so they tend to go to defensive mode or they shut down
- 4:21or they withdraw, which actually contributes to more pain that
- 4:26she's experiencing. And then the cycle just
- 4:28continues to grow and the emotions get bigger.
- 4:32And usually there's not nothing productive that comes out of
- 4:35that. And so I also want to just say
- 4:38that both of those betrayed partners, husband wise, we're
- 4:42all 100% responsible for our own behaviors, our own words, our
- 4:46own actions. And when you're activated, we
- 4:51all know we're in our emotional brain, not in our logical brain.
- 4:53And so sometimes we don't show up in a healthy way.
- 4:56And when we both get activated in the middle of that, there's
- 4:59not a lot of healthy going on. So I just want to, I was
- 5:04interested in talking about this with you today, Luke, so we can
- 5:06shed some light and some understanding about what goes on
- 5:11for both parties and maybe walk away with some more
- 5:14understanding of how to step out of that cycle.
- 5:17Yeah, I, I'm thinking about conversation.
- 5:20I had one time with a guy and he said he was, there was something
- 5:26intense going on in their lives and he was doing his best to
- 5:31figure it out and he had to like, fix something or do
- 5:35something. And he felt like she had
- 5:37something critical to say about that, that they'd had a history
- 5:41of him hearing her say, you're, you're not doing that the right
- 5:45way or you should know how to do this already.
- 5:49Or at least that's what he felt. And immediately, his response
- 5:54was anger. And he was able to identify with
- 5:59that response and anger that was born in his family of origin,
- 6:02like that response of anger. And he was able to acknowledge
- 6:05that anger was effective. And he didn't say it that way.
- 6:10He didn't go like, hey, Luke, I'm going to brag to you about
- 6:12my effective way of handling this conflict, which is anger.
- 6:16He actually hated the anger piece that would show up for
- 6:19him. And he wanted to destroy that
- 6:22anger piece. And then we identified, hey,
- 6:25where does anger come from for you?
- 6:27And we're not going to talk about this part, but just if
- 6:30you're wondering, he identified like, well, it works.
- 6:34And ultimately I view her saying you're incompetent.
- 6:39And if I can get rid of her feeling that I'm uncompetent,
- 6:43then she's accepting of me if that's not there.
- 6:47And I really value this relationship.
- 6:49So his anger was showing up to like be helpful.
- 6:52He couldn't see that. He just saw that I need to get
- 6:54rid of my anger. I need to start, I need to start
- 6:56being not angry when she tells me when she's saying this way.
- 7:01Anyway, that's not what we're talking about but it sets it up
- 7:03at least for the experience of he would he had a lensy look
- 7:08through when she used words. Now I'd place a decent amount of
- 7:14money on from knowing the man that his wife views him as very
- 7:22competent and I don't know if a lot of people stay in
- 7:25relationships with people that are just like this is a
- 7:28completely incompetent person right?
- 7:30He for some reason, his lens that he was looking through the
- 7:34experience was not showing him like actually what she was
- 7:39experiencing in that moment in her communicating with him.
- 7:42It was distorted. That's not surprising to him.
- 7:45He he can see that on his good in his good moment.
- 7:48And yeah, like Hallie, I think about that lens and what she's
- 7:52looking through. And I'm like, it's easiest for,
- 7:55say, on this podcast, but what is if we could actually see
- 8:01reality in that moment, it would change everything for us.
- 8:05And this is the reality. I'd love to hear what you think
- 8:07about this Hallie, which is I heard somebody say one time when
- 8:11she shows up with her trigger and her emotional response,
- 8:17whether in reality is big or whatever it is, that is her
- 8:22vulnerable attempt to connect with me.
- 8:25That is her vulnerable attempt to move and and actually be
- 8:31relational to desire that connection.
- 8:34I don't know. What do you think about that,
- 8:35Hallie? I think you're 100% spot on.
- 8:38I think that when she's activated around something, what
- 8:44she's seeking is safety and security.
- 8:47And so she's coming to you and if she's have a has a lot of
- 8:51strong emotion around it, she's in an activated state.
- 8:54What she's really looking for is for connection.
- 8:58And this is one of the things in our empathy work in the help her
- 9:01heal group, is that if he can step into that space of empathy,
- 9:06and I also validate that I know that's not easy to do because
- 9:09when she's activated, oftentimes it's it makes sense why they're
- 9:13activated. But if he can work to stay
- 9:16grounded and he can do a move toward her instead of a runaway
- 9:21or a shutdown or a get big, actually, you can help Co
- 9:25regulate. Cause what she's looking for,
- 9:27it's safety and security and connection and she wants to be
- 9:30heard. The one thing that I think is
- 9:33important is that there's probably not anything you can do
- 9:36to solve the pain or the problem.
- 9:39Whatever the challenge is, she's not most of the time not looking
- 9:43for a solution. So she doesn't need you to fix
- 9:46it. She doesn't need you to step in
- 9:49and try to make it go away. She needs you to hear her.
- 9:53She needs you to validate her pain and to create some sort of
- 9:58safety and security around it, which then will lead you to
- 10:02connection. And often times you'll see it
- 10:05like just it'll just shut down, it'll Co regulate.
- 10:09It'll help her come back to grounded if she knows that she's
- 10:13been seen and she's been heard. Because if she's not seen and
- 10:16she's not heard, that feels like a threat to her.
- 10:20It feels like a threat to her safety and security.
- 10:23If you can't see and understand her, then what does that mean
- 10:28for the relationship and what does that mean for her safety
- 10:30and security? I love that so much.
- 10:34And I'm thinking about those who are listening, if we're going to
- 10:39go that traditional, the man being the person that the
- 10:41betraying as he's listening to this, him going like, yeah,
- 10:45she's telling me specifically something that she needs me to
- 10:48take action on. She is showing up in my world
- 10:51saying, hey, do it better. That's what he's hearing.
- 10:55I'm not saying that's what she's saying.
- 10:56That's what I was hearing. You did it wrong.
- 10:59Like it might feel like it's all about like something that she's
- 11:04trying to, you know, need you to be different or whatever it is.
- 11:09What's so interesting is I love that Hollywood, you show up and
- 11:12you just really seek to understand, set all your stuff
- 11:15to the side. Be a partner with her in that
- 11:19experience going tell me what you're seeing.
- 11:21Help me understand it feels, and I guess Hallie, I haven't been
- 11:26betrayed, so I just if you could speak to this would be great
- 11:30like that. There, there's it feels
- 11:33different for her once she's actually heard than it does
- 11:37before. She's not even validated or
- 11:39heard. 100% it literally is a physical shit.
- 11:44So or she's felt big and tense and I don't know all the things
- 11:50that you feel when you're in an activated state.
- 11:52It literally is a physical shift when she feels seen and heard
- 11:56and understood. And another thing along those
- 11:59lines is I've been in sessions with couples where they both are
- 12:04in the same experience and they have totally different.
- 12:07They would describe it totally differently.
- 12:09Isn't what she said, that's not what he said, That's not how.
- 12:11And so this is where that seeking to understand, I think
- 12:14it's so important is that we can both be in the same room and
- 12:18have the same going through the same thing.
- 12:20But your perception of an interaction or even the way you
- 12:24hear it, like you said, can be totally different.
- 12:27So slowing things down and instead of getting big, trying
- 12:32to regulate and move toward instead of move away changes
- 12:37everything for that dynamic. Yeah, a couple of things, 'cause
- 12:40you use the words slow or and I wanted to let's slow it down
- 12:44like slow that it's might almost just be painfully slow.
- 12:50First of all, it's identify one thing.
- 12:53If we talk about aggression, let's recognize the difference
- 12:56between physical and verbal aggression and how you brought
- 13:00this up earlier when we were talking, but there's a
- 13:03difference between the two. So that verbal aggression based
- 13:09upon all of my experiences of my family of origin, because that
- 13:13lens I look through, it might not be reality.
- 13:15Like I swear my partner's yelling at me, but if I play it
- 13:18back and I get the camera out, not saying you should record
- 13:21stuff and do this. I just not, I did not encourage
- 13:23you to record the conversation. But if you actually did and some
- 13:27of you that like it's not, it's just going through that lens.
- 13:31But if there is physical aggression, that's different,
- 13:34that's way different than the verbal because the verbal
- 13:37aggression really is about her speaking and it might get louder
- 13:42over time. It's about her being desiring
- 13:45the relationship, going after it.
- 13:46But anyway, any thoughts on that Hallie?
- 13:49Yeah, no, I think you're, it's really important that we
- 13:53differentiate between the physical and verbal aggression
- 13:55because physical aggression is never OK.
- 13:58It's never OK. And then also some of the work I
- 14:01do with betrayed partners is communicating in a more healthy
- 14:06way that does remove criticism and accusations and things like
- 14:12that. So early on in a betrayed
- 14:14partners journey, it's super hard because they're in so much
- 14:18pain to control that. And so sometimes does come out
- 14:23as criticism and accusation. And that's the betrayed partners
- 14:26work is to get to a place where they can have some internal
- 14:30psychological boundaries of their own, where they learn how
- 14:34to express what they're feeling from a lensa when this happens,
- 14:40this is how I feel instead of you did and you did that and you
- 14:43did this. But what I have seen and
- 14:45witnessed even in couple sessions is that she can do that
- 14:48and say that and it is still sometimes perceived as an attack
- 14:52or criticize them, which I where I suspect there's shame getting
- 14:57triggered underneath that because of what you're referring
- 14:59to, the lens that they see the world through that's getting
- 15:02bumped up against. And another thing that you
- 15:05talked about that I think is important for both spouses to
- 15:08know is like our body language and our tone of voice is huge in
- 15:14all of this stuff. Because you can say the same
- 15:18words with a different tone of voice or a different posture and
- 15:23it comes across in in a totally different meaning.
- 15:26Because I've seen it where like guys will say, I know, I know
- 15:30I've hurt you and I'm really sorry.
- 15:31I'm sorry that I did that. And that is a totally different
- 15:35message than says than if you say it from a softer standpoint,
- 15:38that says I know, I can see your pain and I know that the things
- 15:42that I've done contributed to this pain and I am so sorry.
- 15:46That is different, totally different message, same words.
- 15:50And so I think we have to pay attention to that as well.
- 15:53I got a question for you. So a lot of times I notice with
- 15:58the experiences is he cares and he worries that what comes out
- 16:03of his mouth is going to sound like a script.
- 16:05And so can we talk about the difference between the guy
- 16:09that's like working that's worried about the script
- 16:12compared to the one that you said?
- 16:15I don't know. Can you speak to that at all?
- 16:18This is how I this is how I talk about it because the guys in my
- 16:21helper Hill group say my wife just tells me I'm just
- 16:24regurgitating what hell he says. And then I'm just therapizing
- 16:27everything. And, and I look at it like, if
- 16:30you have never been modeled or you didn't know the language of
- 16:33empathy, it's like learning a foreign language.
- 16:36And so if you were learning a foreign language and you went to
- 16:39another country and you started trying to speak it, you would be
- 16:42regurgitating it in a memorized way.
- 16:45And you would be hoping that you said the right thing.
- 16:48And you might say something that comes out and it's a totally
- 16:50different meaning. But you, you what you said was
- 16:54what you thought. And so I encourage the guys to
- 16:57just keep pushing through that until the language of empathy
- 17:01becomes more natural. And I think it will as they
- 17:04organically seek to understand their way.
- 17:07I think empathy is a skill that can be developed.
- 17:11And so as they grow in their ability to have empathy, the
- 17:15words come out and feel more sincere.
- 17:19But early on they're just learning like they don't even
- 17:22know the words to say that even sound empathetic.
- 17:25And so I understand the frustration of that from most
- 17:31betrayed partners standpoint. And at the same time, I think we
- 17:35need to give some grace for them attempting to learn how to show
- 17:39up in empathy. And overtime I believe it
- 17:42becomes more sincere. I don't know what are your
- 17:44thoughts about it. Yeah.
- 17:45And those of you who are like wanting all the sudden to take
- 17:49Halle snippet right there and go tell it to your partner says,
- 17:52hey, can you give me some grace? Just recognize where that comes
- 17:54from, of how heavy it is, but also that it's, I don't have the
- 18:00capacity to be present in there. And I'd be really nice to just
- 18:03have some grace. So there's two pieces that come
- 18:08up for me on this one which is the script that I'm using that
- 18:13I'm feeling scripted. I'm like, is this authentic?
- 18:16But I'm trying versus the other one, which is can you say it
- 18:21again the one that you gave as an example?
- 18:24I I said something along the lines of, yeah, I know, I know
- 18:28you're in pain and I know that I hurt you and I'm so sorry that I
- 18:31did that. The aggression is the tone of
- 18:35weights is send a totally different message.
- 18:38So if that doesn't make any sense, I'll have you like look
- 18:40at it. Not the way you explain it
- 18:43doesn't make any sense to Hallie, but more of the if the
- 18:46concept still feels like fuzzy, I don't know what I'm doing.
- 18:49Take a step back and go, what is my motivation?
- 18:53What are my motives? If my motivation and motives are
- 18:56to hurry the conversation up or get through the conflict to meet
- 19:01the end goal, which is her feeling better when her not
- 19:05being activated, then recognizing that's that that
- 19:09part of. But if it's really out of
- 19:14values, but more out of, yeah, take the space that you need to
- 19:21share what you're experiencing. That will clear some of that
- 19:24stuff up. And if your partner goes to you,
- 19:27and if your partner says to you that feels like Hallie saying
- 19:32that it's OK for you to come back to, those are my values.
- 19:38I do really feel that. But that doesn't need to be
- 19:40communicated to her. It's OK for her to question your
- 19:44motives, I think, right? And to deal with the emotions
- 19:49that come from that. Yeah.
- 19:51And the other thing that makes me think of is, and this was a
- 19:53recent conversation in my helper hill group, is that sometimes
- 19:57men come into my helper Hill group because they think if I
- 20:01can just figure out for her to get better, then we'll be
- 20:03better. And that only will get you so
- 20:07far if it's not sincere. And so really, the best thing
- 20:11you can do to help your wife feel safe is to actually do your
- 20:15work. And be sincere about it because
- 20:19she's got elevated senses now after being betrayed.
- 20:24She's on high alert and she is really good at sensing whether
- 20:28or not it's sincere or whether or not you're just trying to
- 20:31shut her up, for lack of better words.
- 20:33Like I'm just trying to, as long as you get better, then we're
- 20:36fine. I don't need to do anything
- 20:37because I'm not going to do that again.
- 20:39And the best thing you can do is actually do your work and be
- 20:43sincere and step into that place of true recovery, and then the
- 20:47empathy will come more natural for you.
- 20:50Yeah, absolutely. So there's a part here that's
- 20:56just highlight like why does she show up with my trigger?
- 20:59Why does she cope with her trigger and then show it in a
- 21:02way that's not like super soft and gentle or why does she share
- 21:06information this way? Because she's valuing the
- 21:08relationship. Why does he shut down or why
- 21:12does he get aggressive in response?
- 21:15Because it's usually one of those two things.
- 21:17When it's not healthy, it's he gets aggressive in response or
- 21:22he shuts down and walls off in response.
- 21:25And both of those are because he wants and values the
- 21:27relationship. So both you got two people there
- 21:31that are valuing the relationship that are showing up
- 21:36that way. So I want my responsibility to
- 21:39lie with being able to stay inside my window of tolerance,
- 21:45to be able to actually be aware of what my partner's
- 21:47experiencing compared to my natural response of fight or
- 21:52freeze. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 21:56Good stuff. Yeah, for sure.
- 21:58What's? The thing is, we have two, we
- 22:00have two people who in, if you're really seeking recovery
- 22:05and you're wanting to choose to stay, you're wanting relational
- 22:09work. And so we have to do our
- 22:11individual work so that we can move toward these challenging
- 22:14conversations and interactions instead of just hoping that they
- 22:18go away or that they stop happening.
- 22:22Yeah. What it when you say hoping go
- 22:24away, what do you notice when you what is happening?
- 22:27When you notice people are hoping they go away, what are
- 22:30they doing? They, what I see with the
- 22:34couples that that I work with is the husband is showing up maybe
- 22:38to couples coaching sessions or therapy session.
- 22:41Maybe he might be coming to my help or healer another group and
- 22:44he's checking the boxes. But he's not actually doing the
- 22:47work, just trying to do things so that she will feel better
- 22:50that he's doing work. He's not actually doing the
- 22:52work. And that's what I see of just
- 22:55OK, I'm doing these things so that she'll be OK.
- 22:57And then as soon as she's OK, we'll get back to our normal
- 23:00life and we'll move on and we'll get over the.
- 23:02And that's what I see when they're just hoping that it'll
- 23:05go away, is that either they aren't doing any work at all or
- 23:09they're showing up, but they're not.
- 23:10And they're checking the box of attending things, but they're
- 23:12not actually applying the things that that are being taught or
- 23:16learning, they're learning. What you said, when they're
- 23:19doing the work, what's something that comes to mind with actually
- 23:22doing the work compared to checking a box and attending a
- 23:26group or coming to a one-on-one session?
- 23:29I think the biggest thing is changed behaviors and
- 23:33willingness to be vulnerable and willingness to be transparent
- 23:37and even sharing some of their insights from their work and
- 23:41saying I learned this about myself and this is what it means
- 23:44to me and I'm recognizing this. And then they're doing the work
- 23:48to step out of those behaviors. But to me, that's what showing
- 23:51up and doing the work is. And then that empathy comes more
- 23:54naturally when they're doing that work for the pain of their
- 23:57betrayed partner. Love that, love that, you know,
- 24:01just highlighting we have men that enter choose recovery
- 24:07services because there's a podcast or something and they
- 24:12the first thing they're interested in is like help or
- 24:14heal and that's the only thing they're interested in.
- 24:19And I kind of like want to stop and go, what do you to the all
- 24:23the people listening are like, where do you think I'm going
- 24:26next? Or what do you think about that?
- 24:28And, and I, I just think about that journey, I can't be present
- 24:33with my partner until I've done my own work, until I've learned
- 24:36to regulate within myself. So helper heal is amazing place
- 24:41if I've done my own work to be in that situation.
- 24:45But if my only motivation is to calm down the relationship, if I
- 24:49don't have the tools within myself to do that, I'll never be
- 24:52able to do that work. So Yep, I often I encourage the
- 24:59guy who's in the helper Heal group to make sure they're
- 25:01either going to choose 90 or choose 180 or they have their
- 25:04individual coach or therapist that they're doing that.
- 25:07And we do some of that work in Helper Heal as well, because
- 25:10part of it is doing your own work.
- 25:12So we talk a lot about regulating yourself and knowing
- 25:15your emotions and things like that.
- 25:17But I'm always encouraging them to have some recovery work,
- 25:21whether that be individual or a recovery group, because that's
- 25:26it's different. Individual work is different
- 25:28than relational work. And Helper Heal is focused on
- 25:32helping you understand what your betrayed partner might be
- 25:35experiencing and then how you can show up in a more empathetic
- 25:39way. Yeah.
- 25:41And my relationship with my partner is an opportunity for me
- 25:47to reflect on myself and how I respond.
- 25:49So if I sit there, because that's the greatest danger, the
- 25:53greatest threat is abandonment as I see it at the most intimate
- 25:57level, like what relationship I'm most scared of.
- 26:00If that's my, which it usually is, my romantic attachment, that
- 26:04means that's where it's going to carry the most emotional
- 26:06volatility, which is going to give me all of the experiences
- 26:11that I need to measure and weigh where I'm at in my own journey.
- 26:15And yeah, I noticed that the people that are doing the work
- 26:19are really, I'm speaking to the person that did the betraying.
- 26:23Those people are really seeking to understand why the trigger
- 26:27exists or what's happening inside of them, why their own
- 26:31triggers happening and not making it about their partner is
- 26:34the problem. So.
- 26:37Yeah, I love that. So we showed up here talking
- 26:40about why isn't she softer? Like why?
- 26:43If she was just softer, it would be a lot easier for me to
- 26:46navigate and be relational. And it's all the paradigm that I
- 26:50look through. It's all the lens and if I, if
- 26:53that looks different and I view her trigger and her approach as
- 26:58fighting for the relationship is searching to be relational, that
- 27:02can really flip things and understanding why I'm showing up
- 27:05the way that I'm showing up. It's not about her soft
- 27:09approach. It's not about how she
- 27:10approaches it, what comes up inside of me and how I view it
- 27:13in the lens that I look through. Hallie, do you have any like
- 27:17messages to share before we wrap this thing out the.
- 27:19Message that I like to consistently give is that
- 27:22healing is possible. It's not easy, but it is
- 27:26possible when you have two people who are willing to put in
- 27:29the work and the effort. And what I witnessed myself and
- 27:33with many couples is that you can actually have a deeper, more
- 27:38connected relationship than probably you even had before
- 27:41because you didn't know what you didn't have before.
- 27:44And going through this kind of forces you to have to learn how
- 27:49to deal with conflict in a different way, how to understand
- 27:52each other in a different way, and to grow individually and
- 27:56relationally. I guess my biggest message is
- 27:58that it's worth it. It's worth getting the support.
- 28:01It's worth getting the hope. And I think that's why we are
- 28:04even here, Luke, because you and I both believe in that, have
- 28:07witnessed it and experienced it. And so I just encourage people
- 28:10to reach out and get the support that you need and don't give up
- 28:14hope. Yeah, absolutely.
- 28:17Hallie, thank you so much for being here.
- 28:20Yeah. Thank you.
- 28:23Hey, thanks for joining us today.
- 28:24If this is something that you connected with, I'd love to meet
- 28:27with you more and talk about it. So what you can do is go to
- 28:30chooserecoveryservices.com or check the show notes and there
- 28:34what we can do is set up a quick conversation.
- 28:36Thanks so much for listening to Beyond the Facade where we
- 28:39unmask the authentic self.