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Speaker 1: Good morning, dr Jean
.
Good morning, we are in the
studio again.
Thank you all for listening and
tuning in to the spiritual
grind.
Speaker 2: Boop, boop, boop,
boop, boop, boop boop.
Speaker 1: What's that Tuning in
?
Oh, I thought that was like a
bulletin.
Speaker 2: Oh, breaking news?
Yeah, you're right, it probably
is.
Speaker 1: Oh, breaking news.
The Filter Grind is back on the
podcast, the relationship
series.
Do you want to do the
relationship series today?
Speaker 2: I'm open to whatever
you want to do.
Okay, because today, if that's
what we're, supposed to be doing
, then I like it.
Carry on my wayward son, carry
on my wayward son.
Speaker 1: There'll be peace
when we are done.
Oh sorry.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, please
help me.
Speaker 1: Little Johnny's here
today.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
Speaker 1: Please help me.
Speaker 2: Help, help, oh, okay,
please help me.
Help.
Speaker 1: Help.
We just had little Johnny in
the studio and we couldn't get
him to go away.
Little Johnny, yeah.
Little Johnny button nose.
Speaker 2: Little Johnny button
nose.
Speaker 1: Yep, he's fun, though
he's very exciting.
He likes to bring energy to
everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
He likes to ask lots of
questions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you look like
you're waiting for him to pop
back in.
Speaker 2: He's a little
annoying actually.
Speaker 1: So today we're going
to continue the relationship
series, and I think what we need
to talk about is preparing for
contrast, because we have a
tendency to not prepare for the
contrast that we get.
You don't like this topic.
That was a little smirk over
there, I see you didn't like
this one.
Speaker 2: No, it's fine, carry
on.
Speaker 1: My wayward son.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I's fine
, carry on my wayward son.
Yeah, I mean, I wait with bated
breath to see what you're going
to say about preparing for
contrast.
How do you prepare?
Speaker 1: for contrast.
Well, that's just it.
That's what we're talking about
here.
Is understanding that, when in
a relationship, when you have
two different individuals that
have come to this joint
agreement to join together and
you're communicating well and
you're working through topics
and subjects as you experience
them and you go through and
looking at beliefs, is
understanding that I think the
preparedness is having a better
understanding that contrast
happens between the two of you,
between things in life, and it's
how we perceive the contrast
and what we do as a, as an
individual and couple, that make
the contrast um, uh, in a place
to where you can maneuver
through it together.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So, when you like,
for example, when you bring
something up for me that I need
to look at, does that sometimes?
Does that bring contrast into
my reality?
100% it does, and so, but I
have to be, on the other side of
that, open and receptive to
what you're saying and what pops
up into my reality.
In my belief system, may it be
easy or may it be hard,
sometimes it's still something
that we have joined together in
a communicated way and both
agreed upon to do.
And on the other side of that
is when you're the presenter,
you have to be open and
receptive to what they are
working through.
Speaker 2: I mean I will agree
somewhat.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's kind of
the continuation of the
communication that we discussed
previously.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean
communication is by itself.
It's a learning journey.
You're learning how to
communicate, and what do I mean
by that?
There are places within a
conversation between individuals
in a relationship where if that
person is still in a defensive
place and the other person tries
to have a conversation about
something that is touchy, if you
will, then that person can go
very defensive on it and it can
make the conversation feel, the
communication feel not pleasant,
uncomfortable, yeah,
uncomfortable to say the least,
and so and it's both directions.
I think there's of course I'm
not saying it's one direction by
any means Right, but what I'm
trying to bring to the table is
both parties need to go into the
conversation, coming out of
their proverbial suit of this
person loves me and nothing that
this person is saying.
If you're in that type of
relationship where you do your
spiritual work together and you
know that it is, your negotiated
purpose is to bring things to
light to the other individual on
occasion, knowing that they're
doing it from a place of
learning and evolution, not from
a place of I'm trying to gouge
at you, hurt you or any of that.
Because when you come from that
place where you're defensive
about it, even if it's a topic
that you're not really ready to
look at, and so you go defensive
or you feel that contract in
your being, in your body, you
can take it the wrong way.
Oh yeah, I mean, that's one of
my biggest challenges.
Speaker 1: And then a fight
ensues in your being, in your
body.
You can take it the wrong way,
oh yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's one of
my biggest challenges.
And then a fight ensues,
because then you start the blame
game and the pointing fingers.
The next thing you know you're
both swooped up in the argument
of well, you did this to me, you
did that to me.
And then you're hovering around
and floating in the pool of you
know, defensiveness and
victimhood Agreed.
And then you start digging
around in that historical trash
can of bringing up things from
the past, and it can go really
wonky, really quick if you both
don't come to the conversation
with a good, clean intention and
purpose and perspective.
Even if your partner is going
into that defensive mode, you
still get to make a choice.
Do I continue the conversation
and am I at a place within me
where I can stay neutral and not
take anything?
This person is saying personal,
because it's obviously a
challenging topic for them.
Can I stay in that place and
still have this conversation?
Because you can't change where
they are and you can't change
how they view things, what their
perspective is.
The only thing you have a
responsibility to is yourself
and the only thing you can
control is yourself, and so when
you feel that the conversation
or the communication is going in
that direction, you have to
stop and not look at them and
possibly make a comment that's
going to further continue an
argument of wow, you're being
very defensive and you're
speaking not very nice.
You have to go within and you
have to say am I at a place
where I can allow this person to
be where they are and how they
are, without me going into that
vibrational frequency of
defensiveness or victimhood?
And if you're not, then it's
probably beneficial to kind of
table the discussion for a later
date.
I agree, you've got to check
yourself.
Speaker 1: And that's one of the
reasons why I brought it up,
because that's one of my biggest
challenges, because I think the
reason why it challenges me and
maybe the listeners would want
to hear it is I really view
myself as working on me
constantly, and when something
surprises me is when I become
defensive, when there's
something that catches me off
guard or something that I didn't
perceive coming to it, and then
I have to.
I mean, yeah, we're not perfect,
I'm human too.
I try desperately not to be
ugly in it, so to speak, towards
myself or anybody else, and
that is one of my challenges for
me.
And so how I have to do is
realize I have to keep reminding
myself when there's something
that I perceived as a sensitive
topic, where I have to say, okay
, this reality is happening for
me, not to me, and what this
person is saying to me is
happening.
They're saying it for me and
not to me.
And I have to define and work
through the process of where is
it happening that I'm missing
this subject and why is it
coming into my rally now?
What caused it?
You know, go through the normal
process of finding out why it's
there and without getting
emotional and sometimes that's a
challenge and that's a tough
thing.
Speaker 2: It definitely can be.
Speaker 1: Especially if it's
something you have pride in, you
know you feel like you're doing
something, what you view in a
good way.
It can be any topic and, to be
honest, the reality of the
subject is none of us are
perfect and none of us know
everything, and so when there's
something that comes our reality
, that you view you've done well
and somebody has a different
perception of how it could be
easier done or whatever, that
can become a very, very quick,
high emotional situation.
If you're not in tune, and
that's where one of my
challenges are I have a.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a
beautiful opportunity.
You say that that's one of the
challenges.
So the first question if, if,
if it were happening to me and
I'm the one that was having an
emotionally charged experience
in the conversation about it the
first question I ask myself is
why am I feeling the way that
I'm feeling?
Why did that make me feel that
way?
And more times than not, it's
because I have an expectation of
how I'm supposed to be
completing my journey and I'm
criticizing myself and I am not
meeting those parameters or
those standards, and so I'm
actually judging myself.
And and so then, in turn,
because I'm judging myself, I'm
viewing that the other person
who's having the conversation
with me is judging me, and you
know, sometimes we don't like to
look at ourselves or we haven't
stopped to say I'm the worst at
it.
Speaker 1: I get bullheaded.
Speaker 2: Why am I feeling this
way?
Instead, we take it in the
direction of deflecting that
energy off on the other person
having the conversation.
You're saying these things that
are making me feel this way
instead of being accountable for
the fact that we're feeling
that way, because we have put
some sort of expectation or
insistence or definition on the
topic and what we think we
should be doing and we're not
meeting our own parameters or
standards, and so we're actually
annoyed or aggravated at
ourselves, and it sometimes will
get tangled up in viewing that
the other person is doing it to
us.
That's how that mechanism works
.
Speaker 1: Yes, I agree, and the
struggle within it can be the
fact of not bringing up that
historical trash can and
controlling the emotions within
it, because that becomes us by
humans.
Our subconscious mind do the
quickest and easiest thing to
snap reaction and to respond to
situations, and we have to make
sure we make ourselves aware of
that because it's a it's a human
, habitual thing that people do.
They have a tendency to get
defensive when they feel like
they're being, you know, brought
to the table, judged or judged,
and it's a human response.
And when you're in a
relationship, when you get in
that position, you can, as they
say, let your mouth overload
your ass very quickly, because
bringing up historical events or
bringing up non-present things,
um, all that does is rehash
things that's already hopefully
moved on from when you didn't
feel good in that and really, if
you're bringing it up, it's
something that you need to look
at again anyway, and because you
obviously haven't closed that
door either, and so this could
be just a domino effect of
events.
But being open-minded to it is
the the part that becomes very
important.
And so when you're working
through topics in a relationship
that come up that you are
discussing, because
communication is the key and
when you communicate, you're
going to come across topics that
you all have different opinions
on, and that in different
beliefs on and different
historical events on, and that's
okay.
But when it gets brought to the
table, you have to be able to
stop and say, oops, wait a
minute.
Maybe I'm not doing this
perfectly and that's a big
challenge for me.
That's a challenge for me I
wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't get
tangled up in the.
You know it's all perfect
because it's all happening as it
should be right.
Yeah, you know.
So we all are perfectly perfect
.
We're being the puzzle piece to
the whole construct.
Speaker 1: Yes, I agree, working
within the beliefs that we have
.
Speaker 2: Where it gets jammed
up is not viewing it as
imperfect.
That's the jam up standpoint.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 2: You're viewing it for
yourself as, oh, I thought I
was doing this perfectly, and
now it's being brought to my
attention that I am not doing
this perfectly and so shame on
me, I am a bad person.
Or you know then that inner
dialogue monkey mind starts to
ensue to ensue, or you're just.
You go into that place of
feeling bad or disappointed, or
frustrated that you aren't doing
it perfectly.
And I think the key is, instead
of viewing it that you're not
doing it perfectly, view it from
a place of okay, how I was
doing it was perfect for that
moment, time and space.
But what this is showing me is
that I'm ready for an upgrade
and I'm ready to do it in a more
perfect way, in a more evolved
way, in a higher level way, and
and see it as an opportunity
rather than see it as a
self-criticism of, well, I
thought I was doing this
perfectly and now it's being
brought to my attention that I
wasn't even doing it right,
because you were doing it right
at some point.
It's just that, as creatures who
constantly are evolving and
growing, you're changing
literally every second, every
millisecond, and as you change,
as you embrace the concept that
you literally are a different
person than you were two seconds
ago.
You're going to update your
programming.
That just is what it is.
That is a natural mechanism,
and so, the way you were doing
things before, you'll be given
information through whatever
means it comes, whether it's
your partner, whether it's a
newspaper article, a book, a
video.
That newspaper article, a book,
a video, that that information
that comes through is the next
piece of information that you
need to have, the next step of
evolution that you are designed
to go through.
Speaker 1: that's the whole
point of the game that's what I
have to remind myself of is, if
I was perfect, I wouldn't be
here?
No, what you need to remind
myself of is if I was perfect, I
wouldn't be here.
Speaker 2: No, what you need to
remind yourself of is that I am
perfect in every moment of every
situation.
For that moment in time, I was
doing things perfectly perfect.
And now that I've accomplished
and achieved that level of the
game, it's time to acquiesce
additional information.
Can you spell that?
No, not at all.
It's time to gather more
information for the next level
of the game, and so you are
perfect in every moment, and the
perfect paradox of it all is
that you have the ability to
gather the new information and
put it into place through trials
and tribulations and contrast,
and the good and the bad or
however people choose to word
that, and that all is a perfect
and divine construct.
If you weren't supposed to be
doing what you're doing, you
wouldn't be doing it.
I agree, that's how the
mechanism works.
If you're not supposed to be
having the conversation at the
moment, then you wouldn't be
having the conversation.
You wouldn't be inspired to
bring the topic up.
You wouldn't be motivated to
have a conversation about it it
just wouldn't, it wouldn't
happen, right.
And so it's us judging our own
self and not seeing ourselves as
changing beings every
millisecond and giving ourselves
the title or the clout that you
are perfect.
You're perfect in every moment,
doing exactly what you were
supposed to be doing and are
supposed to be doing in the
moment, and that, in and of
itself, in the big construct of
things, is perfect, perfectly
perfect, and it's okay to be
perfect, but it's okay to change
as well.
So judging yourself as oh my
God, I'm not doing it right, I'm
not perfect.
Why am I trying to be perfect?
I can never be perfect Comes
from a kind of different place
of energy.
Speaker 1: No, I agree, I
totally agree.
I think our ego kind of feeds
that a lot when we start owning
the perception that we are not
viewed as perfect and we take it
offensively and that's kind of
what gears up those emotions.
Speaker 2: But your ego is a
necessary part of it.
Speaker 1: I agree, I totally
agree.
It's part of the emotional
ladder that guides us through
our day.
Right Because in the spiritual
world.
Speaker 2: people keep trying to
get rid of their ego and they
keep thinking that their ego is
a negative construct.
And the ego is a perfect
component to all of this.
Without the ego you wouldn't
have those opportunities for
education and growth and
development you have to have the
ego to have certain
perspectives and perceptions
about things.
Speaker 1: So that kind of ties
in a little bit of how I wanted
this conversation to, to how I
was envisioning this podcast
today, because it brings up the
emotional ladder and our
emotional ladder guides us
through our journey, and when
you come up to topics like this
that ring your bell or what do
you call them, zingers.
Speaker 2: I use different words
, it just depends.
Bump up against places, ring
your bell and you jump to the
bottom of that ladder.
Speaker 1: That should be an
instant reminder to say okay,
wait a minute, what am I missing
here?
What do I need to hear, what do
I need to see?
Because that emotional ladder
does guide us through that
process as well.
You can use that emotional
ladder in every process of your
day.
That process as well.
You can use that emotional
ladder in every process of your
day and under making it will
give you a better understanding.
Did it, did it, did it, did it,
did it, did it.
Speaker 2: Sorry, that sounded
very.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a
better understanding of of
what's going on.
And once you hit the neutrality
mark on that ladder, then
you're probably in a more open
place and and then, as you work
through it and clear it, then
you'll continue to move up the
ladder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you
know it's a good, that's a good
conversation of just reminding
everybody when you're learning
to communicate with your partner
.
If you find that something
that's being conversated about
does slap some emotion in your
lap, it's okay to pause the
conversation and especially if
it's a very strong emotion,
don't continue the conversation
in the middle of that emotion.
Give yourself a little space to
have that emotion and really
kind of embrace the motion where
it comes from and then go back
to the conversation, even if
you've got to look at your
partner and say, hey, man, that
hit a hard spot for me and I'm
going to need a little bit of
time for this to marinate.
I need to.
I need to ponder this a little
bit.
Can we finish this conversation
at another time?
Speaker 1: right and you have to
be able as the partner in that
who's the receiver?
Speaker 2: you've got to be able
to say, you've got to be able
to honor that person's request,
even if you're dying to finish
this conversation and get it off
of your to-do list you've got
to be willing to honor the
request of putting it on hold,
because if you don't, that's
where I want to say that
weakened place of arguing and
bringing up all the other stuff,
poking the bear, so to speak.
Yeah, yeah, I agree, if you
don't give that person space to
kind of get their emotional
frequency back to a place where
they can have the conversation
from a place of non
defensiveness.
Speaker 1: Because it'll be
pointless if you continue to
push.
Speaker 2: Right, right, as the
person who's not being bumped up
against.
If you keep pushing the
conversation and that person
can't get there or is not there
and you don't give them the
space to stop the conversation
when asked, then they're at a
frequency that's not going to
allow the two of you to have a
beneficial conversation without
going to that vibrational
frequency of fighting.
I guess that's what I'm trying
to say.
Speaker 1: Because the fights
are completely not beneficial
and because you'll get
emotionally charged and then
nobody ever listens to each
other anyway.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: And being able to,
you know, move past it and have
a better understanding.
That contrast happens to people
and humans and spirit.
We go through these roller
coaster of things.
Sometimes that makes us.
That, you know, will put us
into a place where we have to
look at things, and sometimes
that topic gets the seed planted
and then you have to, like you
said, you have to be okay with
allowing the seed to grow and
walk away and table the topic at
that time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I mean
everybody has to do things
through their own process, at
their own pace.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2: Some people have to
go to the bathroom and pee to
contemplate.
Some people have to go to the
toilet.
Speaker 1: Are you throwing my
business out there?
A long two-hour shower to
contemplate some people have to.
Speaker 2: Are you throwing my
business out there, a long
two-hour shower to contemplate
are you throwing my business out
there, sometimes in the middle
of our?
Speaker 1: honor where the other
person is in their processing
of information and their process
yes, sometimes, when there are
charged events that happen, I
will get up and say I got to pee
and I'll go to the bathroom
just to clear energy.
Yes, I do that and 90% of my
belief clearing I do in the
shower in the mornings.
And, yes, sometimes it takes me
15 minutes to shower.
Sometimes it may take me an
hour and a half and that's okay
because I give myself permission
to do that.
I never once and here's the
cool part about that is you made
a comment about my showers the
other day and I was looking at
us, like you know why does?
it?
Why does it bother me?
That machine makes that comment
about me taking a longer shower
than you sometimes and oh, very
good I.
I looked at it and I was like
you know why?
You know why?
Because I was never allowed to.
I never had the space to be
able to take an hour-long shower
if I want to why like what?
Speaker 2: what would happen?
Speaker 1: because I it would
run out of hot water.
Nobody else could take a shower
, or I always had to get in and
get out so my brother could take
a shower oh, I see and then
growing up, it was always, you
know when had kids, it was a
fight over the bathroom, or or
hurry and get out of there so I
can get in, or you know it was
and then when I had my own
master en suite, it was it
became completely different too,
like, like, why do you have to
be in there, or the kids would
be knocking on the door all the
time.
So you couldn't, I couldn't,
just stop and relax in the
shower.
Speaker 2: Oh, I see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think now
I've made it okay.
Like today, I was just in the
shower like 15 minutes but I
still worked on some things.
But I think, after you said
that, I looked at it and I
released the energy of it and so
it's, it's okay either way.
It's okay to go, it's okay to
stay, it's okay to be right yeah
, I mean I certainly didn't say
it, but that's one that's an
example, right, well, that's an
example that you, you threw me a
zinger and didn't even know it
right and and, because I was
like I wasn't going to say
anything.
I just like moved on because I
knew if I said anything I was
going to for some reason be
emotional in that freaking
conversation.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It really rang my
bell and I was like well, what's
wrong with me taking a damn
shower for an hour if I want to?
Well, mother effer.
Speaker 2: Why can't I take an
hour-long shower if I want to?
The reality is is I don't care
one way or the other, you were
just messing with me for two
days, she said it in joking way
it was.
Speaker 1: It was all a joke and
it wasn't about really being
judgmental, but it rang my bell
yeah, I think we were.
Speaker 2: We were in a group of
people talking about, um, how
females and males doctor
themselves up for the day, yeah,
and I was like, yeah, he takes
a longer shower than me, he puts
more hair gel in his hair, he
combs his hair I don't even wear
gel.
I haven't put any gel in my hair
in like two years I, and so the
conversation was in the
direction of him doing more of
these what society considers
female actions of getting ready
for the day, and we're we're
very opposite most of the time
on that.
Yes, I can go months without
even combing my hair, literally,
and be okay with it sorry, I
gagged a little bit like I
literally had to go to the
hairstylist and say can you
shampoo my hair and comb it out
because it's so matted and so
tangled.
Speaker 1: That's for other
reasons.
You normally wash your hair
once a week at least.
Speaker 2: No, I don't, but if
that's what you need to believe
to get through it.
Speaker 1: That's what you used
to tell me.
I wash my hair once a week.
Speaker 2: I did used to.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But, like when I wear
my dreads for three or four
months at a time, I don't wash
it once a week.
It's a pain in the butt.
Oh yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but anyway like
that's what the conversation
was about In the middle of that
conversation she's throwing me
on front street in front of
everybody and it really rang my
bell.
Speaker 2: and because we were
talking about.
Speaker 1: We were talking about
getting pedicures.
That's what started the
conversation.
Because I do get pedicures and
I do put lotion on my feet in
the morning, because for years I
didn't and jenny had for years
been trying to get me to do it
because my feet were always
rough and cracked and blah, blah
, blah, blah, blah.
And then when after I started
doing, it was like, hmm, there's
something to this yeah, I would
always tell him you you would,
you'll like it.
I promise you'll like it because
I couldn't get over the, the
manhood of it.
You know the masculinity behind
it, how you get judged, and you
were the only guy in the chair.
Speaker 2: And then what I
realized other guys come in all
the time when, when we're in
there exactly, and one guy was
like a six foot nine big dude
but the other part that I
witnessed and this is a good
example of sometimes how we for
for our partners, we can see
things they can't see.
In that particular scenario,
with your feet, you consciously
couldn't, couldn't embrace it
because of the feminist part of
it.
Right, but subconsciously, what
you were also letting it do that
you couldn't embrace it because
of the feminist part of it,
right, but subconsciously, what
you were also letting it do that
you couldn't see is that you
didn't enjoy or perceive your
feet to be decent enough to
allow yourself to wear
flip-flops or to go barefoot,
and so when I thought I had ugly
feet.
Yeah, when I first met you, you
constantly, constantly had
shoes on tennis shoes or boots,
and socks and socks and you
wouldn't like free the toes man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I free the toes
now.
Speaker 2: I even paint my
toenails sometimes Free the nip,
free the toes.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know I'm
kind of open to freeing all the
nips.
Speaker 2: I finally was like
you know, just try it.
Speaker 1: It's it.
I finally was like you know,
just try it, it's, it's all okay
.
Yeah, it was.
I mean the first couple of
times.
It's very awkward.
You're like looking around
leaning in the chair you got
this massage chair going on your
back, I'm raising up and down
and I'm watching everybody
around me and then you hear the
oh, you, you, you, you want.
I can't remember what scent you
want.
I can't even remember what
scent you want.
Oh right, and it was kind of one
of those things like what do
you mean?
What scent?
I don't know what you're
talking about.
I want the manliest one you got
.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so obviously.
Speaker 1: Do you have barbed
wire and nails as a scent?
Because that's what I want,
because I am a masculine man.
Speaker 2: I'm a manly man.
Speaker 1: I can.
I just can't hide Give me the
dirty feet scent.
Speaker 2: I'll have nothing
less.
Sweaty armpits and dirty feet.
Speaker 1: It was very difficult
.
Speaker 2: It was yeah, and I
like to the point where he
couldn't even understand what
they were saying.
And I'm like to the point where
he couldn't even understand
what they were saying.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, are
they talking about me?
Speaker 2: Yes, they would speak
in their Asian language and he
would.
Speaker 1: To the point where I
almost bought that earpiece.
That translates that they have
out now.
I almost bought one of those
just because I want to know what
they're saying.
Speaker 2: I was like just sit
back and relax and put your
little video on or something.
Speaker 1: They don't give a
fuck.
Now I'm the one telling her hey
, can you book a pedicure this
weekend?
Speaker 2: That's right.
That's why it came up is
because you were saying can we
go get a pedicure?
And I'm like, oh, I don't want
to deal with it, yeah, and then
we were at the lunch table.
I think is where it all came up
and I was like you know what?
Actually, it was him that
wanted.
Speaker 1: And then one of our
coworkers was like, oh no, I'd
never get a pedicure Right.
I used to be that way too.
It's okay.
Yeah, it's all okay when you're
in there.
Even the six foot nine buff
guys that body build are getting
their feet done well, not only
that, but they're coming in by
themselves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're not
even coming in with their female
partner, girlfriend, wife or
whatever.
Speaker 1: They'll literally
come in solo and you know what I
didn't know too I actually
looked this up that that
african-american men go to a lot
because they have their skin
yeah and I was like, oh, you
know, wow, okay, you know a lot.
And because they're like justin,
our friend was telling us that
that his, you know, his family
and friends, he's, he's part
african-american, and he would
say, oh yeah, it's normal for
them to go, but anyway.
So I, I got over that and it
rang my bell once.
And so now I, here I am, we
have to.
What are you looking at me?
Funny?
Speaker 2: for I'm not.
I'm just waiting for you to go
on to the next topic so we're
well.
Speaker 1: That's just a good
example of talking about
preparing for contrast, because
it can be on any topic oh yeah
it can be on any topic and
sometimes you're you don't even
like you may say something that
rings their bell and they may
say something.
You ring your bell and you
don't even know it.
Neither one of you know it,
like that example that we just
brought up.
You didn't realize that ring my
bell about the shower.
Speaker 2: Right, and if you're
not consciously aware of truly
believing that your partner has
your highest and best and their
intentions behind it are for the
highest and best of you and the
relationship, if it surprises
you and catches you off guard
and brings about a less than
pleasurable emotion, you'll
immediately bounce right into
that defensive blame game, fight
ensue and before you know it,
you'll be knee deep in an
argument that is getting no one
anywhere and it actually is
inflicting verbal and emotional
scars and damage on each other,
and that's not the intention, I
assure you right and you should
always after you, you know if,
like when you quietly ring my
bell about that shower, it's
always healthier for you to
bring it up after you've cleared
it and worked on it.
Speaker 1: You know, because
that way you can say you know,
like I, like I just now told you
, I didn't even tell you this,
but it was something I was
working on this morning in the
shower was you know?
That really rang my bell and I
was like you know what, why it
frustrated me and I went through
this little, this little way.
But it's healthier to bring it
up and say and bring it up in an
open forum, not in a in
aggressive form, be like, dang
it, you rang my bell again, you
don't want to do that.
Speaker 2: I don't understand
what you mean in an open forum.
You mean in public, in front of
the county, or what.
Speaker 1: Bring it up in a way,
in a positive way, and bring it
to where, if you say something,
be prepared for it.
It's a pay, be prepared.
What the heck was that?
Speaker 2: Dang, that's all
folks, that's all.
Speaker 1: Folks.
Can I get five're gonna get a
bit of five now.
Five now, holy cow.
But you have to be prepared for
whatever the response is,
because it can, it can elevate,
and just be open to it.
You'd be.
That's what I mean.
An open forum is be open to the
conversation when you do expose
what happened.
And that is, I think, the key
to to handling contrast in that
relationship is you don't always
have to talk about it when it
brings it up, but you can talk
about it after you clear it and
realize and the emotions are
gone away from it.
Because when you start having
an emotionally charged
conversation, it never goes in
the way you want it to go.
Because when you start having
an emotionally charged
conversation, it never goes in
the way you want it to go.
It will always it'll veer off
path quickly because we as
humans have no idea what the
other person is going to
perceive that we're saying in an
emotionally charged situation
and so when you bring it up I
guess in a when you bring it up
you have to be prepared to top
it to talk about it.