We Need To Talk with Dr. Darcy Sterling

By Darcy Sterling

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The strengths that make you capable and successful can also sabotage your relationships. On We Need To Talk, Dr. Darcy Sterling helps you see where independence, honesty, high standards, and self-control start working against you in love. Each week, Dr. Darcy helps you take responsibility for the part that is yours—without taking responsibility for the whole relationship. If you are successful in most areas of life but do not like who you become in your closest relationships, this show is for you.

Episode Date
Too Picky or Avoiding Another Bad Relationship? How to Tell Without Settling
Aug 04, 2026
My Partner Has a “Friend.” Is It Jealousy—or Is It Crossing a Line?
Jul 28, 2026
Forgive, Don’t Forget: Why Trust Has to Be Rebuilt
Jul 21, 2026
Why Blaming Your Partner Keeps You Stuck
Jul 14, 2026
Why You Can’t Relax in a Healthy Relationship — And How to Start Trusting It
Jul 07, 2026
How to Read People at Every Stage of a Relationship — From an FBI Hostage Negotiator
Jun 30, 2026
Why You Keep Self-Sabotaging — Even When You Know Better
Jun 23, 2026
Why You Can’t Move On From Your Ex — And The Fix
Jun 16, 2026
Why You Can’t Stop Overthinking About Your Relationship — and How to Finally Stop
Jun 09, 2026
What You Risk When You Admit Your Fantasy to Your Partner
Jun 02, 2026
Why Being Emotionally Mature Isn’t Fixing Your Relationship
May 27, 2026
Why You Keep Wanting People Who Are Emotionally Unavailable
May 19, 2026
Why Your Partner Saying No to Sex Feels So Personal
May 12, 2026
Why You Panic When Someone Pulls Away
May 05, 2026
Stop Taking the Bait: Why Negativity Is So Hard to Ignore
Apr 28, 2026
Why Do You Keep Doubting Your Partner — Even When Nothing Is Wrong?
Apr 21, 2026
Why You Keep Having the Same Fight Even When You Know Better
Apr 14, 2026
Why Do I Keep Choosing People Who Don’t Choose Me?
Apr 07, 2026
"Is My Partner Toxic — Or Am I Overreacting?" with Sara Kuburic
Mar 31, 2026
Why Being Emotionally Mature Isn’t Fixing Your Relationship
Mar 24, 2026
Can You Feel Desire if You Never Risk Rejection? — with Christine Emba
Mar 17, 2026
Why I Avoid Hard Conversations — And Why I’m Starting to Resent My Partner
Mar 10, 2026
Why Don’t I Feel Connected in My Relationship — Even Though We Talk All the Time?
Mar 03, 2026
Why People Pay to Be Punished — And Leave Feeling Better
Feb 24, 2026
When “Protecting Your Peace” Quietly Becomes Avoidance
Feb 17, 2026
The Hidden Cost of Estrangement That No One Warns You About
Feb 10, 2026
I’m With Someone — So Why Do I Feel So Alone?
Feb 03, 2026
You Understand Yourself. So Why Aren’t You Changing?
Jan 27, 2026
What Happens To Us When Mental Health Goes Viral?
Jan 20, 2026
Weaponized Healing: How Emotional Language Became the New Avoidance
Jan 13, 2026
The Part of You That Breaks the Relationship — And The Part That Can Fix It
Jan 08, 2026
Season 3 Trailer
Jan 07, 2026
Breaking Boundaries: Stewart Winter Redefines Modern Love in Part 2 Questioning Monogamy
Dec 30, 2025
Rethinking Monogamy: Why One Relationship Model Doesn’t Work for Everyone
Dec 23, 2025
Your Truth Isn’t Truth: How Certainty Sabotages Your Relationships
Dec 16, 2025
Why You Keep Choosing the Same Relationship in Different Packaging
Dec 09, 2025
Feelings Aren’t Facts: How Therapy Culture Lost the Plot
Dec 02, 2025
How to Have That Conversation You’re Avoiding
Nov 25, 2025
Why Feeling Loved Isn't the Same as Being Loved
Nov 18, 2025
Why Emotional Flexibility Could Be The Most Important Skill You Learn
Nov 11, 2025
Why Deleting Your Dating Apps Might Be Your Best Move Yet - from the former Global Ambassador of Tinder
Nov 04, 2025
Biohacking Alcohol: How Tech is Transforming Our Drinking Habits
Oct 28, 2025
5 Green Flags That Predict Lasting Love
Oct 21, 2025
How to Talk With Anyone About Anything — with Harville Hendrix (Most-Replayed Moment)
Oct 14, 2025
Swipe Right! The Ultimate Online Dating Hacks No One Tells You
Oct 07, 2025
Harm Reduction: The Breakthrough That’s Saving Lives in Addiction Recovery
Sep 30, 2025
How to Read People at Every Stage of a Relationship—From an FBI Hostage Negotiator
Sep 23, 2025
AMA Men’s Edition: Your Burning Questions on Love, Women & Dating — Answered!
Sep 16, 2025
Stuck in Therapy? DBT Could Be the Breakthrough You Need
Sep 09, 2025
How Attachment Styles Shape Every Relationship You Have
Sep 02, 2025
Are Your Dating Standards Keeping You Safe—or Keeping You Single?
Aug 26, 2025
Where to Turn When Your Mental Health Is Unraveling
Aug 19, 2025
Dating as an Introvert: A Survival Guide for the Socially Drained
Aug 12, 2025
Dating Fatigue Is Real: How to Keep Showing Up When You're Over It
Aug 05, 2025
What If One Question a Day Could Save Your Relationship?
Jul 29, 2025
Why You Feel Addicted to Social Media—and How to Break Free
Jul 22, 2025
The Real Reason Your Fights Never Get Resolved
Jul 15, 2025
Signs You Were Raised by Emotionally Immature Parents—and How to Heal
Jul 08, 2025
You Cut Off a Family Member—Now What?
Jul 01, 2025
You’re Not the Problem—But You Might Be Dating One
Jun 24, 2025
​​Is Weed the New Wellness Tool—or Just the New Bottle of Wine?
Jun 17, 2025
How One Judge Became the Therapist 150 Survivors Never Had
Jun 10, 2025
What No One Tells You About Having Sex After A Betrayal
Jun 03, 2025
Everything You’ve Been Taught About Intimacy Is Wrong
May 27, 2025
I’m a Catch. So Why Am I Still Single?
May 20, 2025
This Is the Reason You’re Drawn to People Who Can’t Meet Your Needs
May 13, 2025
What We Get Wrong About Supporting a Struggling Friend
May 06, 2025
The Right Way to Show Up for Someone Who’s Grieving
Apr 29, 2025
Bad Therapy Is a Real Thing—And It’s More Common Than You Think
Apr 22, 2025
How to Talk With Anyone About Anything—with Harville Hendrix & Helen LaKelly Hunt
Apr 15, 2025
How to Know If You’re the Problem in Your Relationships
Apr 08, 2025
Instagram’s Leading Anxiety Influencer on What Actually Heals Anxiety
Apr 01, 2025
Boost Focus, Creativity, and Productivity with Dr. Jeff Karp
Mar 25, 2025
How to Have That Conversation You’re Avoiding
Mar 18, 2025
United by Love, Divided by Beliefs: Why Relationships Have to Come First—with Chris Cuomo
Mar 11, 2025
The Phobia Cure That Works in Hours, Not Years
Mar 04, 2025
How To Support The Newly Sober
Feb 25, 2025
Intimacy Hacks You’ve Never Heard
Feb 18, 2025
The Other Love Story: Honoring Friendship This Valentine’s Day
Feb 11, 2025
Gaslighting: Can You Spot The Signs In Everyday Life?
Feb 04, 2025
New Year, Old Triggers: Why Resolutions Fail Without Emotional Healing
Jan 28, 2025
Getting Personal with Dr. Darcy (and Steph!)
Jan 21, 2025
Why Talking About Sex Is The Best Foreplay
Jan 14, 2025
The Anxiety Hack You’ve Never Heard Of with Dr. Jud Brewer
Jan 07, 2025
From Secrets to Stories: Choosing When to Share Your Past
Dec 18, 2024
The Science of Female Desire with Dr. Lori Brotto
Dec 10, 2024
Blinded by Love: Why We Ignore Red Flags
Dec 03, 2024
Navigating Polyamory with Attachment Theory
Nov 26, 2024
The Passion Paradox in Long-Term Relationships with Dr. Emily Jamea
Nov 19, 2024
Meet The Breakup Therapist: Ginger Dean
Nov 12, 2024
Millennial Dating with Lindsey Metselaar
Nov 05, 2024
Are We Ignoring the Role of Childhood Trauma in School Shootings?
Oct 29, 2024
Porn, Partners, and Pleasure: Finding Balance in a Digital Age
Oct 22, 2024
The Reality of Dating When You’re A Reality Star with Tiffany Pollard
Oct 15, 2024
Mental Health In Dance & Competitive Sports
Oct 08, 2024
Staying Close When You’re Far Away: Managing Long Distance Relationships
Oct 01, 2024
How To Be An Ethical Fu*k Buddy
Sep 24, 2024
Why You’re Asking Too Much Of Your Partner
Sep 17, 2024
Canceling Your Family with Dr. Joshua Coleman
Sep 10, 2024
Drunk In Love: Pacing A New Relationship
Aug 27, 2024
You're Not Hysterical: Everything You Need To Know About Your Hormones with Karen Tang, MD
Aug 20, 2024
The Power of Attachment with Diane Poole Heller
Aug 13, 2024
Commitment Phobes And The People Who Love Them
Aug 06, 2024
How Do I Know If I Need Therapy?
Jul 30, 2024
Questioning Monogamy Part 2 with Stewart Winter
Jul 23, 2024
The B-Word: Mastering Boundaries with Nedra Tawwab
Jul 16, 2024
Social Media's Impact on Youth Mental Health
Jul 09, 2024
Micro-Marriages: Because “till death do us part” isn’t great odds.
Jun 25, 2024
Why Some People Need To Hit Rock Bottom To Get Help, With Dr. Tamir Aldad
Jun 18, 2024
Secrets: The Price Of Keeping Quiet
Jun 11, 2024
“You’re Not Listening!” with Stephanie Sterling
Jun 04, 2024
How to stay in love for years, decades, or even forever.
May 21, 2024
Surviving Divorce with Alex Kapp
May 14, 2024
Questioning Monogamy with Molly Roden Winter
May 07, 2024
How To Heal PTSD with Dr. Laurel Parnell
Apr 30, 2024
You Will Pick The Wrong Partner — Here’s Why It Doesn’t Matter
Apr 23, 2024
Coming Out
Apr 16, 2024
Why Your Life Sucks (and how to fix it)
Apr 09, 2024
Forgiveness Is A Choice
Apr 02, 2024
The Parenting Episode You Wish Your Parents Had Heard
Mar 26, 2024
The Upside To Trauma
Mar 19, 2024
Ending Friendships: The Other Kind of Breakup
Mar 12, 2024
Quiet Quitting In Romantic Relationships
Mar 05, 2024
Compatibility vs. Chemistry in Relationships
Feb 27, 2024
You’re Too Sensitive! How Feelings Are Weaponized Against Us
Feb 20, 2024
Valentine's Day: The Couples Edition
Feb 13, 2024
Why I Hate Valentine’s Day - And How You Can Celebrate As A Single
Feb 06, 2024
Why We Struggle To Ask For Help
Jan 30, 2024
Why Jealousy Crushes Some While Sparing Others (and how to overcome it)
Jan 23, 2024
The Art of Making Up
Jan 16, 2024
Love Languages: What you don’t know about them
Jan 09, 2024
Why New Year's Resolutions Suck And What To Do Instead
Dec 26, 2023
The Ex Files: Navigating Your Post-Breakup Relationship with Emotional Intelligence
Dec 18, 2023
How To Have a Fight (because everyone fights)
Dec 11, 2023
Dial Down The Drama This Holiday Season
Dec 04, 2023
Couch Confessions: Demystifying Therapy
Nov 28, 2023
Swipe Right: First Date Do’s and Don’ts
Nov 21, 2023
Can Breakups lead to Breakthroughs? And how to survive one.
Nov 14, 2023