A viewer joins live with a question about physical pain — cramping and shaking whenever she tries to speak up in a relationship. What unfolds is a real-time demonstration of how the limbic system wires itself in early childhood and never quite updates. Your partner walks in, and something older takes over. Dr. Mark Waller and Rachelle Lane break down why the brain literally confuses your partner with your parent — and the simple question that starts to untangle it.

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