Shannon Curry

We all want to be cared about and liked.

We all want to be liked as a baseline.

Some people will say they don't care, but everybody does.

It's human.

And I have gotten much better being a therapist, much more comfortable showing caring, showing love.

and genuineness and vulnerability than I think I ever would have been otherwise.

I think so.

And people have different levels of comfort, right?

But as long as it's working for both partners, and typically you have to communicate to figure out what makes your partner feel cared about.

However, you might be working, for instance, with an older couple and

I have a couple that's perfectly happy and they sort of have a system.

It works for them.

If there's some sort of a rupture, if they get in some sort of a disagreement, they don't talk it out.

She might go to the store, run an errand, do a little shopping.

He'll work in the wood shop.

And then they'll come back.

And there is a repair attempt, though.

But maybe she'll say, hey, do you want to have dinner or come back?

I made your favorite dinner.

Or he'll say, hey, I recorded your favorite show.