Porc Therapy

Archive for November, 2010

We talk about listener feedback regarding our overuse of the phrase “NBC,” our podcast’s feed stats and listenership (you!), and how Thanksgiving makes us feel.

Hi, Steph and Mike. Thank you. I enjoy listening to you on Porc Therapy and I really enjoy Stephanie’s laughter. Musical and happy sounding. I also enjoy Mike’s humor. It’s wry.

My question is this:

I have a bad relationship with myself. Please discuss ideas for improving self-esteem and attaining self-acceptance.

Meow!

We talk about how Nonviolent Communication has worked or not worked for us since we recorded episode #96.

I’m not a pick-up artist (I wish I was!), but judging from your comment on School Sucks Podcast, I think you portray the community too negative. Yea, there’s probably some guys who will tell anything to get girls into bed. But I think for most people it’s just a way to learn about confidence, adjust their totally fucked up view of reality on relationships and girls and get a nice girlfriend. Kind of like saying Anarchists all throw bombs.

http://porctherapy.com/2010/09/15/porc-therapy-081-school-sucks-for-adults-too/

http://www.schoolsucksproject.com/

Wes Bertrand, from Complete Liberty podcast (among others), joins us to talk about Nonviolent Communication.

My girlfriend of 4 years is saving herself for marriage and I have been very supportive of this but over the past 3 years we have moved from making out to “third base” (which she really enjoys). The only problem is it’s only me who’s doing the pleasuring and she doesn’t return the favor. This really frustrates me and I feel rejected. I’ve talked to her about it and she says “It’s not that I don’t want to do it but when I think about it, it feels weird.” If this continues I feel like we will break up because to me this is important because I put so much effort into pleasing her and then get no effort on her part. It feels like if I ask her for this favor then I am a jerk but if I don’t, I’m sabotaging an otherwise amazing relationship because the rejection is making me feel jaded about our relationship. Also to clarify, I asked if returning the favor contradicted her belief in abstinence (because if it did then all my previous actions do as well) and she said no.

What and how do I tell her? Should I tell her?

Stephanie and Mike discuss the utility of emotionally laden words such as “anarchy,” “capitlaism,” and “libertarian.” Words have meaning, but sometimes meanings change; what do you do about it?