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How To Avoid Dating Narcissistic Men After 40 – Bobbi Palmer – SC 168

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If you are serious about not dating another narcissistic man, and you are an awesome woman over 40, 50, or 60, this episode is for you. My guest Bobbi Palmer, of “Date like a grown up” has some great advice for how to stay true to you and get what you want.

Here are a few of the highlights:

SHOWNOTES

    • About Bobbi [10:00]
    • How Bobbi met and married the man of her dreams within 6 months [13:00]
    • Getting clear on what matters and what doesn’t [15:00]
    • Talking politics, religion, family and finances on the first date [17:00]
    • How people hide from love behind their careers [20:00]
    • About the ‘Narcissistic Guy’ [28:00]
    • 3 Principles of Dating Like A Grown-Up [36:00]
    • The challenge for older women who are dating [45:00]

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Bobbi Palmer, founder and CEO of Date Like a Grownup, is an internationally recognized expert who guides over-40 women to the peace, passion and partnership that comes with loving, grownup relationship.
Bobbi has lived your story. Fed up with being single and determined to succeed in her
romantic life (like she had in the rest of her life), she worked her butt off to figure
out ‘the love thing’ and became a first time bride at age 47. Now joyfully married, she
walks her talk every day as she helps women do what she did: learn how to love and be
loved by a good man.
Bobbi gives you the compassion of a woman with firsthand experience of how it feels being single at this time of life, along with the skill of a highly successful adult educator. As she says: “There is nothing wrong with you. There are just some things you don’t yet know.”
Bobbi has been featured on The Today Show, Huffington Post, NPR, Women’s World magazine, Match.com, eHarmony.com, AARP and numerous other TV, radio and print outlets. Visit her at www.datelikeagrownup.com.

Evolutionary Love – SC 166 – Andrew Harvey

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Do you ever wonder if your relationship pain is guiding you deeper into whatever you need to heal yourself? What kind of relationship do you have with God? With reality? In this fun interview, Andrew Harvey explores how you can create evolutionary love that is much bigger than the “you” you know yourself to be. Hang on for a wild ride as Andrew takes you into a sacred outlook on how relationships work and how they can serve your soul’s calling.

Here are a few of the highlights:

SHOWNOTES

  • Andrew’s definition of true love [10:00]
  • Why is love hard? [11:00]
  • 3 ways to build and cultivate true love [13:00]
  • ‘The shadow’ and an exercise in shadow-work [20:00]
  • Taking responsibility for disowned parts of yourself [27:00]
  • Advice about purpose for when you’re feeling lost in life [28:00]
  • The role of suffering on a spiritual path [37:00]
  • A quote by Rumi [39:00]
  • What is the most important thing people need to learn in relationship? [41:00]

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Andrew Harvey is the Founder Director of the Institute of Sacred Activism, an international organization that invites concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired and effective agents of change. Sacred activism is a form of compassion-in-action that is born of a fusion of deep spiritual passion with wise radical action in the world. The large-scale practice of Sacred Activism can become an essential force for preserving and healing the planet and its inhabitants.
Andrew Harvey has taught at Oxford and Cornell University, as well as at various colleges and spiritual centers throughout the world. He has written over 30 books. www.andrewharvey.net

Loyalty in Gay Relationships – SC 164 – Jean Malpas

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Loyalty is essential in a long-term partnership. Is loyalty different for gay couples? What honest conversations and boundaries are you both talking about? In this episode my guest Jean Malpas has some excellent tips for addressing these concerns and for giving your partner the benefit of the doubt.

Here are a few of the highlights:

SHOWNOTES

  • Understanding cisgender and transgender [2:00]
  • At what age do people start to identify with their gender? [4:00]
  • An issue that comes up for any couple, gay or straight [8:00]
  • What’s ok and what’s not ok in an open relationship? [11:00]
  • What is the one essential factor in a successful relationship? [14:00]
  • Is there a difference between gay & straight couple relationships? [15:00]
  • Being mindful about areas of shame in relationship [21:00]
  • What is “minority stress”? [22:00]
  • Advice for couples who are struggling in relationship [33:00]

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Jean Malpas, LMHC, LMFT is the Director of the Gender & Family Project at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, Director of International Training, and psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. He has presented on issues of gender, sexuality, couple and family therapy in the US and internationally. His work on gender and sexual diversity appears in numerous professional publications and is featured on media outlets including National Geographic’s “Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric,” MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes,” Frontline’s “Growing Up Trans,” The New York Time, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian and Vogue.