HeyJaredWe Need To Talk with Dr. Darcy Sterling
For more than 25 years, Dr. Darcy Sterling has been helping people conquer their toughest relationship challenges. She is a New York City-based licensed therapist, the host of E!
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Your Partner Has ADHD. Why Are You the One Drowning? (opens the original)
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In relationships, ADHD can explain why ordinary things are harder for your partner. It does not explain why you became the reminder system, the backup plan, and the person who keeps everything from falling apart. You remind. You track. You compensate. And eventually part of your brain is always on call for theirs. In this episode: Why understanding ADHD can quietly turn into managing it for your partner How repeated rescuing can keep your partner from feeling the full consequence Why love can st
Why You’ve Stopped Sharing Good News With Your Partner — And When That’s a Warning Sign (opens the original)
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In relationships, good news should feel good to share. But if your partner barely reacts, looks distracted, or points out the downside too fast, you can start wondering why you bothered telling them at all. At first, you still share the small wins. Then you start telling other people first. Eventually, your partner may stop being the person you want to bring your joy to. In this episode: Why a flat response can make a good moment feel worse What a supportive response actually sounds like in real
The Real Reason Your Fights Never Get Resolved (opens the original)
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I’m bringing this episode back because recurring fights are one of the clearest places to see how quickly a relationship problem stops being about the thing you were originally trying to solve. In relationships, the same fight can keep coming back even when the topic changes. You think you’re arguing about money, chores, tone, or plans—but somehow the conversation keeps ending in the same place. One of you gets louder. The other shuts down. And the original issue never really gets resolved. In t
Stop Chasing Emotionally Unavailable People — How to Break the Spell (opens the original)
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The hardest emotionally unavailable person to leave is often the one who keeps giving you just enough to hope. They disappear, come back, open up for one night, or give you one intimate moment that makes the whole relationship feel more meaningful than it usually is. You start waiting for the next sign. The next return. The next moment that seems to prove the relationship is finally becoming something more. In this episode: Why rare moments of closeness can outweigh a much bigger pattern How mix
Why You Get Angrier When Your Partner Tries to Fix the Problem (opens the original)
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In relationships, you can come to your partner upset, hear a perfectly reasonable solution—and somehow feel even worse. You wanted them to understand what hurt. They started trying to make the problem go away. What started as one frustrating moment can quickly turn into a much bigger fight: “Do you even understand why this upset me?” In this episode: Why advice can make you feel more dismissed when you are already hurt How a small problem turns into “Do you even understand why this upset me?” Wh
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