You're Not Being Gracious. You're Being a Doormat.
Kittie Rose
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23m
Live in Chicago with Tonight’s Conversation, the hosts answer audience questions about relationships and marriage. Naomi asks how to move a relationship rooted in separate past traumas into something healthy; the panel distinguishes shared trauma experiences from clinical trauma bonds, emphasizes communication about triggers, conflict styles and attachment, and warns that healing can change the relationship if trauma was the main connection. They discuss a partner’s unhappiness, depression, and the danger of one person fighting alone to save a relationship. Another audience member asks how to tell grace from enabling; Kitty explains grace as acknowledging human error with consequences, while repeated tolerated wrongdoing becomes enabling. A married woman describes conflict over keeping her job and boundaries; the panel urges a backbone and clear boundaries, and Kitty suggests fasting and prayer for a spiritual battle in the marriage.
00:00 Set Your Boundaries
00:44 Live Show Kickoff
01:12 Trauma Bond Question
01:55 Define Trauma Bonding
03:07 Are You Both Happy
03:45 Healing Changes Bonds
07:33 Stop Fighting Alone
09:35 God In The Covenant
10:48 Grace Or Enabling
11:17 Grace Needs Consequences
14:17 Career And Kids Boundary
17:44 Backbone Not Permission
19:30 Confidence And Respect
21:37 Fasting And Prayer
23:18 Closing And Farewell
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