Ep. 025 | Understanding the Phases of Recovery: Is This Normal?

Should we just quit? What are we doing wrong? Why does it feel worse now than it did before? One minute you can't get close enough, the next a single look sends you both back to your corners, and you're left wondering if any of this is normal. In episode 25, Jeremy sits down with Rick, John and Laurie to answer the questions they hear most from couples in the thick of it, and to name the phases that feel like failure but aren't.

In this episode:

• The push and pull where one of you reaches out just as the other pulls away, and what to do when it feels like you can't win
• Why the unfaithful spouse often feels lighter first while the betrayed spouse carries the weight, and what Rick says the one who strayed owes their mate in that season
• How to tell a normal phase from a pattern that isn't one, and when "we survived the crisis" has quietly become "we stopped"

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