How do you fix a relationship when love is still there—but your partner is burned out from carrying the emotional load?

Especially when you never learned the relationship communication skills you needed to begin with?

In this episode of Ask Angela: Relationship Advice for Love After Trauma, Angela Amias responds to Jazmin—a listener who’s in the healthiest relationship of her life, but now facing a painful turning point. Her wife is exhausted from years of emotional labor and waiting for Jazmin to do the work she couldn’t do earlier in the relationship. Now, Jazmin is trying to figure out how to break the cycle—and how to begin again.

This episode is for anyone learning to love midstream—growing while still healing.

Angela explores: • Why emotional labor can’t sustain a relationship long-term • How childhood trauma disrupts adult relationship communication • What it means to move from underfunctioning to full participation in love • Why learning how to fix a relationship starts with asking the right questions • How to improve relationship communication skills—even if you never learned how • Why sustainable change requires inner motivation, not panic or pressure

If you’ve ever looked at someone you love and thought, I don’t want to lose this—but I don’t know how to fix it, this episode offers insight, guidance, and a way forward grounded in self-reflection, compassion, and courage.

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