Become A Love Tribe Member Today — When you become a Love Tribe Member, you'll gain access to exclusive, ad-free content not available on our regular, free feed. The membership provides you even more amazing and actionable relationship advice from the world's leading experts. Sign Up Here!   It's easy to blame our partner or other external factors when dealing with relationship issues. However, we can only control ourselves and often need to look inward to address relationship issues. Listen to today's show to learn great relationship tips and how to take responsibility for ourselves.   In this episode, we discuss relationship advice topics that include:

• How to take responsibility for ourselves and not rely on our partners so much
• Balancing how much we communicate our issues with partners
• How to communicate with your partner who often puts their problems on to you
• How to respond instead of react when communicating in your relationship
• ++ BONUS++ round of questions for Love Tribe Members

Dr. Kathleen Smith is a licensed therapist and author of the book Everything Isn't Terrible: Conquer Your Insecurities, Interrupt Your Anxiety, and Finally Calm Down.

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