Chuck Bryan

You're ignoring anything negative.

To like basically you're delusional about that.

And so you're not going to attempt to improve things because you're just like, no, it's all going to work out.

It's going to be great.

One of the ways that this pops up, I think, for people and they don't really recognize that that's what they're doing is when somebody shares their feelings or confides in you that they're afraid of something or anxious about something.

And you just say, oh, it's all going to work out.

You're being toxically positive right there.

You're actually dismissing their fears.

You're probably doing it because you're uncomfortable right then.

You don't know what else to say.

So you're just going on.

Well, I can't go wrong by being positive.

You actually can.

And that's toxic positivity.

Yeah, and that's, I mean, true in all relationships, supporting a spouse or a friend, but also a lot with parenting.

Like that's not a great road to go down with a kid because you're teaching them the wrong things.

I feel like you should be saying like, well, hey, let's think about this.

And maybe if you take these steps, you can help affect the outcome rather than like, it's going to be fine.

You're going to be great.

Yeah.