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Author: Caleb & Verlynda Simonyi-Gindele

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Formerly: The Marriage Podcast for Smart People. Co-hosted by Caleb and Verlynda Simonyi-Gindele. We are married to each other and are both counselors who have worked extensively with couples and individuals. We own Therapevo Counselling Inc., a counselling agency that delivers hope and healing to clients across North America and beyond via secure Zoom video call.
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For couples where one of you keeps reaching and the other keeps shutting down, this episode goes underneath the pursue-withdraw pattern to the two attachment fears driving it, "I will be abandoned" and "I will never be enough," and explains why the partner who looks calm is often the most flooded person in the room. By the end you will know why "just calm down" fails the anxious partner, and the two-part agreement (a named return time, a lowered reach) that actually interrupts the cycle. Free consultation with our couples team: https://therapevo.com/couples-counseling/?utm_source=podcast
For the person who ended the affair and cannot understand why their partner is still devastated, and for the partner watching that relief from inside the worst week of their life. By the end you will understand why ending an affair stops the harm but does not treat it, why "I ended it" cannot land as reassurance, and what the repair actually asks over the next months. https://therapevo.com/help-for-the-betrayer/?utm_source=podcast
For the betrayed partner who found the hidden card, the cash withdrawals, or the monthly transfer, and was surprised by how much the money part hurt. Caleb and Verlynda explain why financial infidelity inside sexual betrayal sets off a second alarm in your nervous system, what the secret spending usually contains, why caring about the money is grief and not greed, and how the financial disclosure belongs inside the recovery work rather than with an accountant. Learn more at https://therapevo.com/healing-for-the-betrayed/?utm_source=podcast
If you have ever sat next to someone you love and felt completely alone, this episode is for you. Verlynda and Caleb unpack why loneliness inside a committed relationship is usually a signal about emotional accessibility rather than evidence that you are too needy, what is actually happening when a couple has no conflict at all, and the one sentence that reaches a partner when a complaint will not. https://therapevo.com/couples-counseling/?utm_source=podcast
If you have the flashbacks and the hypervigilance and the sleep that will not come, and someone has told you it is time to move on, this episode is for you. Caleb and Verlynda walk through why betrayal produces the full symptom picture of post-traumatic stress but usually falls outside the diagnostic manual's definition of a qualifying trauma, what the research actually found, and the correction most couples never get: your partner stopping does not stop your trauma. They finish with what kind of help fits and in what order. https://therapevo.com/trauma-therapy/trauma-therapy-for-ptsd/?utm_source=podcast
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