TNP195 Portrait of a Marriage Part Two

This is the second episode in our miniseries revisiting my 2017 article, Portrait Of A Marriage. (Yes, It's Mine.) In this episode we talk about top-down and bottom-up processing and how communication is not the magic cipher we have been led to believe! I share my story of how the stress of our relationship somatized into physical symptoms that required us to call 911. And we get into tender territory about what patriarchy looked like in our marriage and how it's related to Ruben's current experience with severe burnout. The key resource we recommend to everyone trying to bring feminist cultural analysis to relationship building: The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity and Love, bell hooks Shauna Janz' work: Sacred Grief with Shauna Janz *** Have a question or comment? Looking for life advice? Need some witch wisdom? Maybe I can help – listen for my response in an upcoming episode! Click here to leave me a voice or written message.