Prof. Katriona O'Sullivan

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400 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 8 Aug

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Brendan O'Connor · “Marriage needs conflict” - Prof. Katriona O’Sullivan · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

And I said, yeah, I don't think I can stay with someone who actually doesn't allow me to express myself emotionally and doesn't hear me and stonewalls me to the point where we're awake.

I'm awake all night and he's lying there fast asleep, just can't find in this stonewall.

And I'm like thinking it all through.

So we went to therapy and,

But also, in that situation, Brendan, I also had to learn that my style of communication isn't the dominant one as well, and to respect his needs.

So I had to learn that...

I had this sense that I, talking things out is the right thing.

So like, that was my thing.

Emotional, getting it out emotionally and not going to bed are angry.

And so I was right.

I was right.

As you know, so.

But when we went to, we signed up for Relate.

We went for a sick, we went to Relate.

We had therapy.

And in the midst of the conversations with a therapist, a marriage counsellor,

I learnt that actually I'm actually demanding something of him as well that he doesn't want in a marriage.

And so the two of us had to try to adjust ourselves to meet each other in the middle, which sometimes meant him saying, I actually can't talk about this right now.

Can we put this to bed and talk about tomorrow?

And me going...

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