Just Chai

Valentine’s Day Edition: Your Love & Relationship Questions, Answered

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On this most strange and special of holidays, we are going beyond the greeting card, and supporting our listeners by answering your challenging questions about love and relationships. Your love gurus are here for you! Grab a cup of chai (or coffee or tea) and join us. In this episode, we discuss:

  • Amy’s hair + Valentine’s Day plans
  • Reversing roles on Valentine’s Days (single to coupled, and coupled to single)
  • How Amy made Valentine’s Day special when she was single
  • Remembering our “Valentine’s Day Sux” party from college
  • Managing Valentine’s Day expectations
  • The power of friendship to fill the void
  • Fill up your own bucket
  • Can love overcome political differences?
  • Masters vs. disasters (dealing with minefield topics)
  • The 3 ways you can show up in discussions
  • Setting an intention for difficult conversations 
  • Considering what happened in a person’s life that might inform their strong views
  • Recalling Amy’s father’s experience from 1984 and its impact
  • Should I stay or should I go?
  • You have to invest in yourself
  • Look at the things that are easiest to solve
  • Happiness doesn’t look the same to every person
  • Even though you think things cannot change, things inevitably change
  • How have you abandoned yourself?
  • The process of journaling as a feedback loop
  • Engage in a conversation with yourself
  • Struggling with identity issues
  • The “Four Horsemen” - considering toxic dynamics in a relationship
  • You teach your partner how to treat you
  • Dissecting codependency
  • Boundaries are necessary to have healthy relationships
  • Geometry as an analogy for relationships
  • “You have to know where your ‘no’ is”
  • Carving out an independent persona
  • True love is made up of two individuals
  • The body is a messenger
  • Everything can change

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    Just ChaiBy Sultana Ali and Amy Chauhan
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