YOU ARE NOT ALONE - A companion online community discussion board for The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast with Paul Gilmartin

Daisy (with Corey for support) shares about her emotionally absent parents, Taiwanese culture, her anxiety, need to control, fear of making mistakes, struggling to find a sense of self and the imprint left on her by pleasing her emotionally withdrawn/critical mother at any cost. They share about the specifics of their polyamorous relationship and agreements/boundaries vs open ones and monogamous ones. Daisy talks about the struggle of being a jealous person in a poly partnership and her need for Corey's validation sometimes being at odds with her desire to have freedom to explore love with other people.

Did anyone else feel like there was a strange kind of manipulation of Daisy by Cory in this weeks pod? Something about the interaction between the 2 made me uncomfortable.

Possibly... Corey spoke so little it's hard for me to tell.

This was another episode where I think it would interesting to hear from the person being interviewed (Daisy) again a few years from now. I wonder if she would look back at this time in her life and see it as a phase she went through. So many anxious, insecure people try to keep relationships by pleasing their partners and doing what the partner wants (yes, I'm speaking from personal experience). When Daisy said towards the end that she's considering moving out to work on her issues, I thought that sounded like an excellent idea.