In this episode, I sit down with **Dr. Kristin Davin**, a licensed psychologist, relationship therapist, and author with more than 20 years of experience helping people break unhealthy relationships. Together we explore why some relationships remain emotionally stuck even when both people know that something in the relationship is not working. We discuss the unconscious psychological functions relationships can serve, why people often become attached not only to another person but to what the relationship represents. We examine much more, such as why ending a relationship often involves mourning not only the loss of a partner, but also the loss of the imagined future and hoped-for self that the relationship once promised.
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**Dr. Anthony Mazzella is a psychoanalyst and psychodynamic psychotherapist specializing in narcissism, personality disorders, and relational dynamics.**
