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....and the average age of first exposure is under 11yrs old!!

With p**n being accessed from such a young age as a source of information about s*x, it is unsurprising that findings show 49% of Gen Z agree that watching p**n has changed their expectations of real-life s*x.

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So true!!

One of the reasons couples counseling can be so frustrating after betrayal is because it assumes both people are coming to the table with the same goal.

But in some cases, they're not.

One person is trying to understand the depth of the wound.

The other is trying to minimize it.

One is asking:
"How do we heal what happened?"

The other is asking:
"How do we stop talking about it?"

Those are two very different conversations.

When a betrayed partner is still reeling from deception, gaslighting, hidden behaviors, or a double life, the primary issue is not communication.

The primary issue is safety.

And safety cannot be built while responsibility is being avoided.

If the betraying partner is more focused on defending themselves than understanding the impact of their actions...

more focused on explaining the behavior than addressing the damage...

or more concerned with moving on than making repair...

couples counseling often becomes another place where the betrayed partner feels unheard.

Not because counseling is bad.

But because healing requires a foundation.

Before a couple can effectively work on "us," the person who created the injury must be willing to work on "me."

They must be willing to tell the truth.

To own the harm.

To develop empathy for the pain they caused.

To address the brokenness that made the betrayal possible in the first place.

Because reconciliation cannot be built on avoidance.

And intimacy cannot be rebuilt on defensiveness.

The healthiest couples counseling happens when both people are moving toward the same goal:

One is healing from the wound.
The other is taking responsibility for creating it.

That's where real repair begins.

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Technology, AI and the developing brain - frightening combination!

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED Humans aren't just social — we're ultrasocial, wired like bees and ...

He nails it!

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