For The Lonely, Suffocated, or Overextended: How To Balance Your Relationships When Others Won't Change | Nedra Glover Tawwab

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Ten Percent Happier Podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. Today we're talking about something that I find inexhaustibly interesting and like perennially urgent. I sometimes call it the human curse. We need other people in order to be happy, and yet other people can sometimes be a gigantic pain in the ass. My guest calls this the Balancing Act, and that is in fact the name of her new book, The Balancing Act. Said guest is Nedra Glover Tawab, who's Coming back on the show for the third time, which I'm very proud of. Nedra Glover Tawab. Welcome back to the show.

Thank you for having me for the third time. First of all, congratulations on your new book. Thank you. Tell me what you mean by Bancing it. Relationships are a bit of give and take. They are about us and other people. Our lives are full of things. It's full of work and parenting. Parenting our parents and so many things. And we have to figure out some sort of harmony to exist in this space of needing others and being there for them and what it looks like to have boundaries and also to honor other people's boundaries.

It's so tricky. I mean you know Because you know, the temptation is, given the messiness of human affairs To withdraw? Um and and and the culture makes it easier than ever, our technology and our individualistic culture makes it easier than ever to withdraw into whatever our Tech.

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