In this episode a listener recently ended a relationship with her therapist after she violated her trust. Now she is grieving the loss and wonders if she should go back.

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Who is responsible for setting the agenda in a therapy session?

Angie wonders if it's really up to her to bring up hard topics with her therapist.
Chelsea's therapist (8:48) doesn't ask questions about her life, making her feel like her therapist doesn't care about her.
Finally, Claire's therapist (17:31) likes to explore the topics that interest him and she finds herself trying to please him by playing up those aspects of her life. We were warmed up by Act 3 so don't give up before the end.

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On this episode Karol asks for our opinion on The 5 Love Languages: are they useful or are they harmful?

The study we referenced from University of Toronto which summarizes recent attempts at empirically validating the "love languages" can be found here.

In part 2 (19:30), a listener feels like her therapist is not on her side and said something hurtful to her on purpose. We discuss confrontations and countertransference among other things.

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