122: Managing Long Distance Relationships...Even If You Just Feel Like You're In One

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

There is nothing harder than being madly in love with someone and not being able to see them everyday. Whether you live in another state or your partner works a lot, finding success in a long distance relationship can be hard. Listen to today's show to learn the tools to create a successful long distance relationship. In this episode we discuss relationship advice topics that include: Learn how to gauge if your long distance relationship is going to last. Find out why you should avoid texting your partner too often. How to create novelty and passion to keep the relationship alive and thriving. How simply having kid's can make a relationship feel like it's long distance. Why it's important not to skip over uncomfortable relationship conversations. And much more! Dr. Paulette Kouffman Sherman is an award-winning author and relationship expert. She is the founder and director of Paulette Sherman Group, a psychotherapy and relationship coaching practice and home of numerous award-winning books, including Dating From the Inside Out published by Simon & Schuster. For more than 20 years, Paulette changed the lives of thousands of clients, and shared insight with millions more through expert commentary on over 30 media outlets including MSN, USA Today, The New York Post, The New York Times and many more. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and two children and works in Manhattan. Full Show Notes and episode links at http://idopodcast.com/122 Sign up for our 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge here: 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge Do you want to hear more on this topic? Are you struggling with a long distance relationship? If so, you're not alone. Continue the conversation on our Facebook Group here: Love Tribe Sponsors Talkspace: The online therapy company that believes that therapy should be affordable, confidential and convenient. Join over 500,000 people who have used Talkspace for online therapy with their licensed therapist. Get $30 off your first month when you visit Talkspace.com/IDO. Zola: Zola is the wedding company that will do anything for love. They are reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience to make the happiest moment in our couples' lives even happier. From engagement to wedding and decorating your first home, Zola is there, combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology. All in the service of love. To sign up with Zola and receive a $50 credit towards your registry, go to ZOLA.com/ido. If you love this episode (and our podcast!), would you mind giving us a review in iTunes? It would mean the world to us and we promise it only takes a minute. Many thanks in advance! - Chase & Sarah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And Take me to the place in the middle of the sun. What is going on, love tribe?
0:27.0	What is going on, love tribe?
0:30.0	Hey guys, we hope you are. What is going on love tribe?
0:33.0	Hey guys, we hope you are having a wonderful day today.
0:38.0	Yeah, I was gonna open with
0:40.0	O la mise amigosos because our Spanish is improving banish is on my mind and
0:46.9	definitely having to I guess survive that's not the right word but it's necessary
0:55.4	Stella has a babysitter now who only speak Spanish so it's forcing me to to practice
1:02.2	and realize that I need to get a lot better.
1:04.5	So I won't torture your ears with my Spanish too much.
1:09.4	It's actually really good.
1:10.6	I'm very impressed.
1:12.3	It's better than mine. I had a look up I had a
1:14.4	Google today what I wanted to say to the babysitter. It was pretty pathetic but it's
1:19.0	a work in progress. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, we are still loving it getting settled down here in
1:25.3	Costa Rica and we had our first recorded interview down here and went great. The connection was perfect.
1:34.5	Better than when we were in San Diego, which is kind of crazy.
1:37.3	Yeah, I think it was. And we had Dr. Paulette Sherman on and Paulette and Sarah and I focus on long distance relationships.
1:49.5	And you might be hearing this and saying, well, I live with my partner.
1:53.2	This doesn't apply to me, but what we talk about really applies to all relationships, and it's funny,
2:00.4	we talk about it in the show but how long distance relationship really magnifies
2:06.3	the necessity to have strong communication to have all of the things that we talk about so much on the show need to be almost that much better
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