Marriage Rehab: Exposing Narcissistic & Emotional Abuse
Jul 24, 2026 · 24 min · 10 segments
What if the problem in your marriage was never really communication? In this episode of Marriage Rehab, Dr. David Hawkins and Dr. John Hudson challenge one of the most common assumptions in couples…
David HawkinsHost
We're going to talk about couples who come to counseling, they seek out counseling, and they say, they say, we just don't know how to communicate.
actually more serious question, and that is, what if communication isn't the problem? So, Dr.
So, let's start out by setting the scene a couple comes to us a couple comes to i mean roughly you and i have talked about this roughly 50 of the population of the of the nation of the world will at one time or another seek out counseling often for couples counseling and When they sit down with a counselor, a coach, therapist, they typically say, we just don't know how to communicate.
And so most counselors then, most coaches then say, okay, that's in my wheelhouse.
And so they start teaching communication skills, how to have a soft startup, how to validate one another.
But what happens when one partner actually communicates clearly, but the other punishes them for it? What happens when honesty leads to ridicule, retaliation, or withdrawal? So can communication skills...
Can communication skills... repair a relationship where one person refuses accountability.
Do you agree with this statement, Dr. Hudson? This is a really powerful statement.
We're going to talk about couples who come to counseling, they seek out counseling, and they say, they say, we just don't know how to communicate.
actually more serious question, and that is, what if communication isn't the problem? So, Dr.
So, let's start out by setting the scene a couple comes to us a couple comes to i mean roughly you and i have talked about this roughly 50 of the population of the of the nation of the world will at one time or another seek out counseling often for couples counseling and When they sit down with a counselor, a coach, therapist, they typically say, we just don't know how to communicate.
And so most counselors then, most coaches then say, okay, that's in my wheelhouse.
And so they start teaching communication skills, how to have a soft startup, how to validate one another.
But what happens when one partner actually communicates clearly, but the other punishes them for it? What happens when honesty leads to ridicule, retaliation, or withdrawal? So can communication skills...
Can communication skills... repair a relationship where one person refuses accountability.
Do you agree with this statement, Dr. Hudson? This is a really powerful statement.
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