2025-11-14
40 分钟It's really important that the person who had the affair is going to have to do a lot of listening in order to repair that feeling of connection and safety in the relationship.
Welcome to the Couples Therapist Couch, the podcast for couples therapists,
marriage counselors, and relationship coaches to explore the practice of couples therapy.
And now, your host, Shane Burkle.
Hey everybody, welcome back to the Couples Therapist Couch.
This is Shane Burkle, and this is the podcast that's all about the practice of couples therapy.
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I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist and the goal of this podcast is to help you learn how to more effectively work with couples and possibly even learn how to have a better relationship.
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A few weeks ago, I did an episode on communication and talking about communication skills.
And I realized, you know, part of it, what we were talking about the speaker and the listener,
and I realized I could go a lot deeper into the experience of the listener and what listening really means.
We were talking about it in the inner circle, a couple of therapists inner circle.
which is a membership for therapists who want to learn more about couples therapy.
And we have these discussions about how to work with couples and how to be more effective as therapists.
And so we were recently talking about it and I decided I need to do a whole episode just on listening.
And when I when I use the word listening,