We'll explore how prioritizing our own personal growth and self-care can translate into stronger and more fulfilling relationships with our partners. We'll also be sharing tips and strategies for cultivating a sense of inner fulfillment and well-being, and how to apply these principles to our relationships.

We'll explore how prioritizing our own personal growth and self-care can translate into stronger and more fulfilling relationships with our partners. We'll also be sharing tips and strategies for cultivating a sense of inner fulfillment and well-being, and how to apply these principles to our relationships.

Relationship Goals: Prioritizing Personal Fulfillment for Lasting Love

 Insights from a Sex Therapist Expert. Why not prioritize your sex life and wellness? Listen if you are curious about how your sex life stacks up against the rest of America.  Did you know that men feel greater distress when they're not content with their sex life? Communication is key if you are looking to improve satisfaction in your sexual relationship.

Insights from a Sex Therapist Expert. Why not prioritize your sex life and wellness? Listen if you are curious about how your sex life stacks up against the rest of America.  Did you know that men feel greater distress when they're not content with their sex life? Communication is key if you are looking to improve satisfaction in your sexual relationship.

Unpacking The Benefits Of A Healthy Sex Life

Relationships can be very confusing. We are taught reading, science, history &amp; if we are lucky sex ed but not anything about what creates trust, why repair is important or how to communicate especially when we are vulnerable. Learning about connections, how to build them &amp; keep them is sorely missing. This episode will fill that knowledge gap! 

Relationships can be very confusing. We are taught reading, science, history &amp; if we are lucky sex ed but not anything about what creates trust, why repair is important or how to communicate especially when we are vulnerable. Learning about connections, how to build them &amp; keep them is sorely missing. This episode will fill that knowledge gap!

Creating A More Satisfying Relationship

We all believe it is ideal not to fight, this is complete fantasy. The only way to have real intimacy is to be authentic about our differences instead of swallowing our secret truths. We all want to avoid the messiness of conflict and being uncomfortable which is short term thinking. We all make excuses easily "I didn't want to hurt you" which is really about avoiding hard conversations which leads to a mountain of resentments long term.

We all believe it is ideal not to fight, this is complete fantasy. The only way to have real intimacy is to be authentic about our differences instead of swallowing our secret truths. We all want to avoid the messiness of conflict and being uncomfortable which is short term thinking. We all make excuses easily "I didn't want to hurt you" which is really about avoiding hard conversations which leads to a mountain of resentments long term.

How To Make Conflict Work For Real Intimacy

People love to avoid conflict because it is messy. Conflict makes people uncomfortable and they don’t like not knowing what will happen. Conflict is really important to growing up. My definition of growing up is honestly facing painful situations. Conflict offers an opportunity to grow up, and it’s certainly not easy. Learn in this episode how to step into conflict in a respectful way.

People love to avoid conflict because it is messy. Conflict makes people uncomfortable and they don’t like not knowing what will happen. Conflict is really important to growing up. My definition of growing up is honestly facing painful situations. Conflict offers an opportunity to grow up, and it’s certainly not easy. Learn in this episode how to step into conflict in a respectful way.

Embracing Conflict To Improve Your Relationships

There are different ways for couples to be connected; mutual religion as a shared values system, all the many physical activities of tennis, rock climbing, dancing or kayaking. Having shared connections of the ways you enjoy life together really matters. Culture offers so much to anyone as an individual or as a couple. David Brooks describes a piece of art…"as a portal to a deeper realm of the mind…art has the potential to humanize the beholder.”

There are different ways for couples to be connected; mutual religion as a shared values system, all the many physical activities of tennis, rock climbing, dancing or kayaking. Having shared connections of the ways you enjoy life together really matters. Culture offers so much to anyone as an individual or as a couple. David Brooks describes a piece of art…"as a portal to a deeper realm of the mind…art has the potential to humanize the beholder.”

CULTURE AS A CONNECTION COUPLES CAN SHARE

Longevity in relationships slips so easily through our fingers, it’s not a simple or small achievement, unless one partner is almost always submissive &amp; not resentful about their wants being ignored. Two adults who are equal in sharing power over priorities, values &amp; decision making have to be involved in constant work together over the decades. This requires partners have imagination, attention &amp; gumption.

Longevity in relationships slips so easily through our fingers, it’s not a simple or small achievement, unless one partner is almost always submissive &amp; not resentful about their wants being ignored. Two adults who are equal in sharing power over priorities, values &amp; decision making have to be involved in constant work together over the decades. This requires partners have imagination, attention &amp; gumption.

Ingredients for Relationship Longevity; Imagination, Attention & Gumption

This episode is for men who want to do better but don’t begin or to know how &amp; their partners who love them.  Women often feel misunderstood &amp; men feel like “What more can I do?” and giving up becomes the path with the least pain attached. This episode is to give men guidance on how to grow into even better versions of themselves…which I believe is the great purpose of relationships.

This episode is for men who want to do better but don’t begin or to know how &amp; their partners who love them.  Women often feel misunderstood &amp; men feel like “What more can I do?” and giving up becomes the path with the least pain attached. This episode is to give men guidance on how to grow into even better versions of themselves…which I believe is the great purpose of relationships.

Empowering Men To Understand Problems In Relationships

Tiredness is often a triangle of trouble that includes guilt &amp; fears. Wading through those feelings is no small task. They stick to your soul like gum on the bottom of your shoe &amp; contaminate your belief in yourself. It helps to remember that your feelings are not facts. Thoughtfully consider what is the evidence for your feelings &amp; don’t put so much weight on them as accurate.

Tiredness is often a triangle of trouble that includes guilt &amp; fears. Wading through those feelings is no small task. They stick to your soul like gum on the bottom of your shoe &amp; contaminate your belief in yourself. It helps to remember that your feelings are not facts. Thoughtfully consider what is the evidence for your feelings &amp; don’t put so much weight on them as accurate.

EXHAUSTED WOMEN & WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT

What motivates you to have a better relationship or even a better life? Because it will take work. Do you do the work of loving someone? It’s work to accept the parts you find annoying or tedious - it’s work to make yourself understood - it’s work to listen to disagreement - it’s work to respect the differences. It’s work to to survive important values collisions. It’s work in a frantic/busy life to find one-on-one time to deepen your relationship instead of avoiding difficult conversations. 

What motivates you to have a better relationship or even a better life? Because it will take work. Do you do the work of loving someone? It’s work to accept the parts you find annoying or tedious - it’s work to make yourself understood - it’s work to listen to disagreement - it’s work to respect the differences. It’s work to to survive important values collisions. It’s work in a frantic/busy life to find one-on-one time to deepen your relationship instead of avoiding difficult conversations.

MOTIVATION FOR THE WORK OF LOVE

Relationships matter. Do you want to know the nitty gritty of what makes a relationship work? Get your answers to relationship questions. Learn how to keep respect alive &amp; well, because lack of respect is why people get divorced.  Learn what builds trust &amp; how to recover from infidelity, drama or codependency. Advice from psychotherapist Rhoda Sommer based on over 35 years of working with couples. www.therapyideas.net

Rhoda offers insightful advice that everyone should hear. Definitely worth listening to!

Worth a listen

Fantastic podcast and good insight into relationship issues.

Great Listen!!

Relationships matter. Do you want to know the nitty gritty of what makes a relationship work? Get your answers to relationship questions. Learn how to keep respect alive &amp; well, because lack of respect is why people get divorced.  Learn what builds trust &amp; how to recover from infidelity, drama or codependency. Advice from psychotherapist Rhoda Sommer based on over 35 years of working with couples. <a href="http://www.therapyideas.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.therapyideas.net</a>

What Healthy Couples Know That You Don't

 In relationships we take the easy way out a lot. We lie &amp; tell people what they want to hear instead of truth. We silently stash resentments &amp; get divorced. We decide sex is a chore we don’t want to be bothered with. We dump our insecurities on each other to fix instead of fixing them ourselves. We let our anxieties run rampant &amp; spill all over our partners instead of trying to learn how to self soothe. We tolerate disrespect &amp; sometimes contempt instead of asking our partner to course correct. These are all negative patterns that lead to disconnection.

In relationships we take the easy way out a lot. We lie &amp; tell people what they want to hear instead of truth. We silently stash resentments &amp; get divorced. We decide sex is a chore we don’t want to be bothered with. We dump our insecurities on each other to fix instead of fixing them ourselves. We let our anxieties run rampant &amp; spill all over our partners instead of trying to learn how to self soothe. We tolerate disrespect &amp; sometimes contempt instead of asking our partner to course correct. These are all negative patterns that lead to disconnection.

Connection & Disconnection, Learn How it Works

Interview with Dr. Patricia Papernow, in her fourth decade working with blended families. Blended families are complicated, where adults may be thrilled to find a new love, children may experience that as a turning away from them. Loyalty Binds can create problems, which may work out better with a slower pace.

Interview with Dr. Patricia Papernow, in her fourth decade working with blended families. Blended families are complicated, where adults may be thrilled to find a new love, children may experience that as a turning away from them. Loyalty Binds can create problems, which may work out better with a slower pace.

Blended Families, Stepfamilies; A Map for Greater Understanding

Couples have to evolve over time. Evolving as a Team means that the two of you together solve the puzzle of your strengths &amp; weaknesses &amp; how they can work together. Of all the Couples you know, how many are actually a team? 

Couples have to evolve over time. Evolving as a Team means that the two of you together solve the puzzle of your strengths &amp; weaknesses &amp; how they can work together. Of all the Couples you know, how many are actually a team?

How to Be a TEAM in a Relationship

Disappointment can be dangerous to relationships. We, as human beings can be very irrational when it comes to disappointment. We nurse our disappointments &amp; they grow to take up too much real estate inside of us. Feelings are important to know who you are &amp; how you are unique. Feelings are also often exaggerated &amp; most often selfish. Learning to balance your feelings by thinking things through is a great goal to improve relationships. 

Disappointment can be dangerous to relationships. We, as human beings can be very irrational when it comes to disappointment. We nurse our disappointments &amp; they grow to take up too much real estate inside of us. Feelings are important to know who you are &amp; how you are unique. Feelings are also often exaggerated &amp; most often selfish. Learning to balance your feelings by thinking things through is a great goal to improve relationships.

Disappointment & Exaggerated Feelings Can Destroy Relationships

Relationship survival is something people should be able to learn more about in College. It’s one of the best parts of life, yet it is a mystery to most people. Listen to learn the primary secret to success!

Relationship survival is something people should be able to learn more about in College. It’s one of the best parts of life, yet it is a mystery to most people. Listen to learn the primary secret to success!

Relationship Success; What is the #1 Secret

How do you approach hard topics in a relationship? You will learn 4 specific ways to communicate about problems. It’s important to dialogue not have parallel monologues.

How do you approach hard topics in a relationship? You will learn 4 specific ways to communicate about problems. It’s important to dialogue not have parallel monologues.

#15 How to Approach Problems in a Relationship

Communication can be almost impossible with a partner if we only want to steer the story in our favor. Communication requires an openness to the validity of someone else’s story even if you don’t like it. Communication gets unstuck &amp; we can communicate better when you are able to let two opposite things be true at the same time and let them sit quietly next to each other instead of trying to get one to win and erase the other. 

Communication can be almost impossible with a partner if we only want to steer the story in our favor. Communication requires an openness to the validity of someone else’s story even if you don’t like it. Communication gets unstuck &amp; we can communicate better when you are able to let two opposite things be true at the same time and let them sit quietly next to each other instead of trying to get one to win and erase the other.

Communicate Better By Understanding The Stories We Tell Ourselves

If you recognize your own dark side you will be a better candidate for love &amp; relationships. It’s important to recognize our part in problems instead of taking comfort in blame.

If you recognize your own dark side you will be a better candidate for love &amp; relationships. It’s important to recognize our part in problems instead of taking comfort in blame.

Relationships Require We Recongnize Our Own Dark Side

Manipulation is the core of the Drama Triangle. This game creates confusion &amp; upset, not solutions or a path to truth. Denial is a huge part in the role of Rescuer.Drama is all about power &amp; winning.

Manipulation is the core of the Drama Triangle. This game creates confusion &amp; upset, not solutions or a path to truth. Denial is a huge part in the role of Rescuer.Drama is all about power &amp; winning.

Relationships Require Vulnerability

Sex life Boost is something everybody can benefit from. It's too easy to let desire fade away. Listen to learn how to restore vitality. Novelty doesn't work. This interview with Stephen Snyder is really important to finding the energy to make your sex life matter.

Sex life Boost is something everybody can benefit from. It's too easy to let desire fade away. Listen to learn how to restore vitality. Novelty doesn't work. This interview with Stephen Snyder is really important to finding the energy to make your sex life matter.

Sex Life Boost Needed for Your Relationship? Low Desire Problem?

Choices define our lives &amp; our relationships. Many of the choices we make are done without thinking or awareness because they are habits. What makes you more mentally healthy is being aware of having choices and making them. Listen &amp; learn what choices will improve your relationship. 

Choices define our lives &amp; our relationships. Many of the choices we make are done without thinking or awareness because they are habits. What makes you more mentally healthy is being aware of having choices and making them. Listen &amp; learn what choices will improve your relationship.

Choices & Their Impact On Relationships

Anger can be a huge problem in relationships. This episode asks what's important about anger management for relationships? Anger can be incredibly self absorbed &amp; ugly. It's easy to fall down the rabbit hole of "I'm right" &amp; needing to win. We all want the power to control &amp; be the Top Dog. So listen to this episode to learn how to reign it in. Interview with Matthew Plotner.

Anger can be a huge problem in relationships. This episode asks what's important about anger management for relationships? Anger can be incredibly self absorbed &amp; ugly. It's easy to fall down the rabbit hole of "I'm right" &amp; needing to win. We all want the power to control &amp; be the Top Dog. So listen to this episode to learn how to reign it in. Interview with Matthew Plotner.

Anger Management & Relationships

It’s so easy to start taking each other for granted. We develop habits of how we see each other &amp; we make assumptions instead of being curious. When we don’t feel seen it’s really a big deal &amp; we end up hungry. This definitely happens as the years pass &amp; it’s your job to  freshen things up.  It is beyond foolish to imagine you will never be disappointed in your partner because they are so wonderful &amp; you miss being saturated in romantic love. We all have ideas of who we want to be &amp; who we expect our loved ones to be. But that’s just it; they are only ideas, mostly built on fantasies &amp; illusions.

It’s so easy to start taking each other for granted. We develop habits of how we see each other &amp; we make assumptions instead of being curious. When we don’t feel seen it’s really a big deal &amp; we end up hungry. This definitely happens as the years pass &amp; it’s your job to  freshen things up.  It is beyond foolish to imagine you will never be disappointed in your partner because they are so wonderful &amp; you miss being saturated in romantic love. We all have ideas of who we want to be &amp; who we expect our loved ones to be. But that’s just it; they are only ideas, mostly built on fantasies &amp; illusions.

Love Means Paying Attention & Accepting Disappointment 

Misery can so easily build in any relationship. Misery zaps your energy to think &amp; it's easy to indulge your sad feelings. The two of you as a couple can fall to the bottom of your priority list. The misery usually spills over into bickering &amp; fighting with each other because we don’t kick the neighbor’s dog, we kick each other.

Misery can so easily build in any relationship. Misery zaps your energy to think &amp; it's easy to indulge your sad feelings. The two of you as a couple can fall to the bottom of your priority list. The misery usually spills over into bickering &amp; fighting with each other because we don’t kick the neighbor’s dog, we kick each other.

Misery In Your Relationship & 10 Ways To Fix It

Infidelity is complicated &amp; difficult to heal from. Dr Spring wrote the first book that defines infidelity as a loss of trust &amp; a shattering of the self. The person who has been betrayed struggles to recapture their sense of themselves. The partner who had the affair needs to listen non-defensively, without interruption to the profound level of hurt. Quick apologies are not going to solve this for the person who is hurt &amp; feels their life has blown up. Listen to learn what does work.

Infidelity is complicated &amp; difficult to heal from. Dr Spring wrote the first book that defines infidelity as a loss of trust &amp; a shattering of the self. The person who has been betrayed struggles to recapture their sense of themselves. The partner who had the affair needs to listen non-defensively, without interruption to the profound level of hurt. Quick apologies are not going to solve this for the person who is hurt &amp; feels their life has blown up. Listen to learn what does work.

Infidelity & Forgiveness: Interview with Dr. Janis Spring

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