Sometimes relationships are toxic and need to end. Whether you’re dating or married, there can be a point where you are struggling to find clarity on what you should do in the relationship and if you should allow it to continue. Listen to today’s show to give yourself the tools for a relationship checkup and find clarity on if it’s a relationship you should stay in.

  • Specific questions to ask yourself to help determine the health of your relationship
  • The importance of asking yourself if you’ve actually made efforts to sustain the relationship
  • Looking within to see if you have unrealistic expectations for your relationship
  • How to decide if you should break up, separate or divorce
  • Understanding what is specifically troubling you in the relationship and the underlying issues
  • And much more!

Ann Gold Buscho, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in family issues and issues related to divorce, parenting, parenting planning and co-parenting counseling. She has professional and personal experience in nesting, co-parenting, step-parenting and single-parenting issues. She has presented widely at state and national conferences for attorneys, mental health professionals, and financial professionals on collaborative divorce, forgiveness practices, nesting during divorce, and consensual dispute resolution. She is currently writing a book about nesting.

Buscho is also a co-founder of a residential treatment program for traumatized emergency responders and their families at which she volunteers regularly. A graduate of Stanford University, she lives in San Rafael, California.

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