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Why I Kept Trying to Make It Work, with Simon Verhage
Some men don’t just go through one difficult relationship.
They find themselves asking a harder question: Why do I keep ending up in the same situation with different people?
In this episode, Simon Verhage talks honestly about growing up feeling unheard, carrying that need for connection into adult life, and how that led him into relationships he hoped would finally give him the stability he was looking for.
What makes this conversation different is how openly he talks about the pattern, not just one breakdown but several, and the difficult realisation that until he understood himself better…
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