#GrowNOW The Podcast

Today’s episode is not a guide on how not to get cheated on ( and if someone tries to sell you that, you are being scammed ), but rather today we approach cheating with the notion that, unfortunately, it is part of life, part of our relationships. There is no guarantee that anyone can give us that we will not be cheated on and that, in turn, we will not cheat.

Actually, the notion of cheating is not the same for everyone, and the limit to which a person can consider that the partner has done something wrong is indeed subjective.

Today we will try to eat with the aftermath of cheating and how to try to make it as a couple after the fact.

Hope everyone agrees with us, to start the year fresh, willing to assume the responsibility of our life and of our actions.

We finished the previous episode with the question: “What can we adapt into a relationship vs what are we willing to compromise in/for a relationship?”. And as we were mentioning, there is freedom in knowing the difference between adapting and compromising but we all know that the line between the 2 can get blurry and often, we take engagements or make promises that after a while seem to “inconvenience” us, even though at the time we agreed whole heartedly.

Find out more on the topic on today's episode

Happy New Year 2024 and may your relationships be fruitfull and blessed.

The real contradiction in a family setting is that we love them with all our heart and that’s what makes us a bit more vulnerable, willing to tolerate more, even when that gets us to a point of irritation. The Christmas holidays sometimes come with a few tense moments and different expectations for everyone.

That's why we focused on today's episode on how to manage these holidays with the family, and still adapt to their needs while not feeling that you are not compromising too much and still being true to your needs, personal or business aspect.

Continuing on last week's discussion, today we adress the subject of responsability and freedom, and shed a light on the fine line between responsability and freedom.

Any relationship we have requires commitment and therefore, finding’s way to integrate the other person into the equation of out work life. Depending on the type of relationship we are looking at here, especially the romantic ones, we might feel sometimes that we have to chose between feeling free and being in a relationship, feeling connection and love. There are 2 essential values of life, after all. How are we suppose to chose? Are we suppose to chose? Find out in today’s episode.

There is a saying “ When something feels sad when it ends, it must have felt pretty wonderful when it happened”. It is a beautiful way of looking at a sad situation and the discomfort it created after. Most of the time, we have a hard time understanding and letting relationships go, but as always, there is beauty in everything and it usually means that one thing ending just created space for something else to come into our life.

Today’s episode focused on a series of questions that we should ask and challenge ourselves with, realistically and straight forward, if we want to get a better grip on how to recognise the positive in any breakup.

Realistically speaking, the end of any relationship can become a breaking point in someone’s life, the “perfect” ground for trauma and limiting beliefs to set it. How amazing would it be if all of us , when faced with such moments and decisions, to be brave enough to give the other person the chance to have closure. It’s important when ending any type of relationship, be it work, love, friendship, etc, to put yourself in the other’s place and to offer an explanation, reason, an objective answer and civilised ending to that connection.

This being said, in this episode we will focus on the other aspect of these breakups, when we don’t get any closure and the way to navigate through life afterwards.

Through these 2 parts of the current topic, we want to point out that working on past relationships, not only will help us get rid of that bitter taste in our mouth, but also will help us face in a better way, any current breakups. We want to share with you 5 ideas to consider when you are dealing with a situation like this.

No matter if it’s a friend wanting to distance themselves, or a job relation, a loved one wanting to move on without us… when someone else is putting an end to a relation, if we are not first of all blindsided, we can experience anger, feeling “not good enough” and “it’s not fair” or even a numbness or shutting down . These are the most complete and painful endings, most of the time.

We know these are triggering topics for most of the people, because usually after this kind of separation, there is trauma and negative associations left behind. That’s why, the reason we approach these complex themes, and especially about past relationships, is to be able to rework those painful endings with today’s tools.