Worried that your "picker" is broken after going through a divorce or a bad break up? Is your fear of another relationship failure causing you to want to give up on finding the relationship that you have always dreamed of? Tony breaks down Freud's "repetition compulsion" and how your parents are actually messing up your relationships now, and in the future. Dr. Stephen Diamond's article "Essential Secrets of Psychotherapy: Repetitive Relationship Patterns" is the muse for this episode.

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