Okay, real quick, before we get started, you know, one thing you all know is we don't

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love life they truly deserve. So let's jump into it once you start

making it about the person and their identity rather than behaviors that's a problem if you say

gary i hate you you are so annoying and clueless that's a problem whereas the behavior you can

even just switch it a little bit which is it's pretty frustrating when you do X, Y, and Z.

Now that's a behavior that he can actually change, and it's not like pointed at Gary the identity.

Gary, I feel like we have a really unique perspective as coaches in this space because I think we both can

realize and recognize that all relationships have issues and have challenges, don't they? It's like

there is no perfect relationship out there, although we all want to believe it. It doesn't

exist, right? Yeah, it doesn't sound very romantic, but it sure is realistic.

Yeah, I think we've riffed on this enough about like Disney movies and, you know, rom-coms just set us up for failure in our beliefs around relationships.

But every relationship has challenges, every relationship has conflict because you're taking two imperfect human beings, putting them together and trying to create a life together. So today, what I want to do is talk about the solution to creating a long lasting relationship, which is communication, talking it out. It might be one of the things I'm most

fond of saying, which is every relationship problem has the same initial solution, and that's

communication. And so being a good communicator is a relationship superpower, and it's one that people

actually aren't very good at. And even those that are listening and thinking,

I'm a pretty good communicator, perhaps,

but you definitely have some room to grow.

Yeah, and we all do.

I mean, it's just one of those things,

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