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How to Say No Without the Guilt Hangover
If you’re the default planner, reminder, emotional regulator, and peacekeeper in your relationship — this episode is for you.
We’re unpacking the invisible mental load and how it slowly turns into over-functioning, resentment, and the “guilt hangover” that follows boundary setting.
Joined by therapist Dr. Gloria King, we explore how this pattern intensifies in neurodiverse relationships, where executive functioning differences may push one partner into the manager role — often without either person realizing how it happened.
This conversation covers:
• The unseen “second shift” many women…
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