293: You Know They’re Wrong for You… So Why Can’t You Let Them Go?

Love Life with Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Are you stuck in a cycle of tolerating disrespect or avoiding tough conversations?

In this episode of Love Life, Matthew, Audrey, and Stephen dive into why so many of us stay in challenging relationships—whether romantic, familial, or platonic—for far too long, and how to reclaim your power by setting boundaries and addressing the issues. You’ll learn how to stop obsessing over someone else’s actions and start focusing on why you’re allowing it, plus practical tools for having those difficult conversations you’ve been avoiding.

🎯 Topics include:

Why we ignore our needs in the early stages of relationships.
How to have tough conversations about what matters to you.
The power of teaching others how to treat you—and when to walk away.
Why people-pleasing tendencies can leave you feeling invisible in your own relationships.
How to break free from unhealthy dynamics and create space for mutual respect.

If you’ve ever struggled to stand up for yourself or felt stuck in a one-sided dynamic, this episode will give you the clarity and confidence to take action.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Love Life. Today's episode is all about why we stay in painful and difficult
0:13.2	relationships or dynamics, either in our romantic life or in our familial friendship life for too long.
0:22.4	And what we can do about it if we want to get ourselves out of these situations
0:26.8	or if we want to remain in these situations and teach people how to treat us better.
0:34.2	We also are going to be talking about how to have tough conversations gracefully and
0:38.3	effectively. We have a couple of Love Life line questions coming up from our dear listeners
0:43.7	and a new segment of Steve's sleeves. We're going to find out what's up Stephen's sleeves.
0:52.6	Stephen likes the name now. You come around. I've come around.
0:56.0	Come around. Yeah. I think the listeners gave some nice feedback and they now just keep saying
1:01.9	the word Steve's sleeves. So it's like a thing. So I'm just like, okay, I think they've caught
1:07.6	onto it. Because it was catchy from the beginning, Steve. This is what you never understood about Steve's sleep.
1:12.8	No, no, clearly.
1:14.2	But he understands it now.
1:15.4	Yeah, now he's...
1:15.9	The idea was ahead of where I was.
1:18.9	I had to catch up to it.
1:20.1	It was ahead of Steve's time.
1:22.0	So we also have some amazing stuff coming up this month for all of our love life members. Of course,
1:29.6	Stephen, you just released a new course on the 15th. Can you give us one line on what that's about?
1:34.2	It's on flirting and communication in early attraction and how to get it in the early dating stage.
1:40.7	That has just come out inside the love life app. On May 2nd, we have a coach check-in with
1:45.9	Audrey. I will be doing a full coaching session on May 9th with everybody answering questions,
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