Closeted Conversations With My Wife

The Nobles have a conversation with Amber Cantorna, the gay daughter of a 30-year Focus on the Family executive. She's the author of Unashamed: A Coming-Out Guide for LGBTQ Christians and Refocusing My Family: Coming Out, Being Cast Out, and Discovering the True Love of God.

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The Nobles answer a call about how to support your partner when they are experiencing depression. Dawn shares a story about the first time she had a panic attack and the way they learned how to manage it as a couple. The Nobles discuss the balance between fully accepting your partner while not suppressing your own needs. 

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The Nobles work through a fight they had last night. They get into: Esther Perel's wisdom regarding empathizing with your partner (whether or not you agree with them), what their therapist taught them about nurturing each other's childhood attachment wounds, Hannah's experience of pre-verbal trauma, and what to do with the micro-tensions that show up in marriage. 

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A listener calls in and asks a question that gets the Nobles talking about the unspoken dilemma of what to do when you're in a monogamous relationship and find yourself attracted to others. They talk about the very real possibility in every relationship of an affair, what to do with jealousy, and how they use transparency to stay grounded. 

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The Nobles share about the practice of learning to accept each other's dark sides. They talk about vulnerability, receiving each other's love, and how this can help heal childhood wounds. They talk about Stan Tatkin's concept of living as a 2 person system. They get to the root of what's going on in a tension they have about running the air conditioning.

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The Nobles continue discussing their religious upbringings and how it's impacted them emotionally. Dawn shares some insights from a book she's reading: Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson. 

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Dawn and Hannah talk about the struggles and joys of what it was like for each of them to marry someone different than they expected.

They cover touchy subjects like: weight, femininity, and education levels.

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Dawna & Hannah break down what they're learning about how to self-regulate during arguments. They talk about the 'emotional-tug-of-war' lesson from their marriage therapist. Dawn talks about how her mental health was impacted by years of pushing down her emotions and she lets you in on the new practices she's using that got her off anti-depressants. 

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The Nobles do a deep dive into a longstanding tension they had around gender roles, money, and unmet expectations. Hannah shares about what she did to try and make Dawn's sadness go away. They talk about how the things that trigger them in marriage are often related to messages they received in childhood.  

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