125: When Two Worlds Collide - Dating and Parenting

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

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

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Being a single or divorced parent and dating can be difficult. Whether you are dating someone with kids, or you yourself have kids from a previous relationship, these circumstances present all kinds of potential problems. Learn how to navigate these issues with a world's leading expert on resilience and family dynamics. In this episode we discuss relationship advice topics that include: Learn how to create structure for your kids to help ease the transition of divorce and dating. Find out if it's OK for your kids to stay in touch with an ex who is not their parent. Understand the importance of being genuine with your child when dating new people. Learn why it's important to not feel guilty about dating. And much more! Dr. Michael Ungar is the Canada Research Chair in Child, Family and Community Resilience at Dalhousie University, and the founder and Director of the Resilience Research Center. He is among the best known writers and researchers on the topic of resilience in the world. As both a family therapist and professor of Social Work, he has helped to identify important factors that influence the resilience of children and families during periods of change and stress. He is the author of 14 books that have been translated into five languages, numerous manuals for parents, educators, and employers, as well as more than 150 scientific papers. Full Show Notes and Episode Links at http://idopodcast.com/125 Interested in learning more about our Costa Rica Couples Retreat? The retreat is built to be the ultimate vacation for couples looking to have fun, try new things and build a stronger relationship in paradise. Click here to learn more! 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 dating and parenting? 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	You're going to be. Take me to the place in the middle of the sun.
0:17.0	Take me to the plates in the middle of the sun. What is going on guys? We are going to sing this song.
0:29.0	What is going on guys?
0:31.0	Welcome to ID Podcast. We are happy to have you here today and if you are a
0:37.2	first-time listener we used to do it every show and we haven't been doing it
0:41.7	we're like we probably got a lot of new listeners so
0:45.5	tell you a little bit about the show. We interviewed the world's leading relationship experts so whether you're single married dating or in a relationship there's going to be great stuff for you here on I do podcast so thank you for joining us and we want to start today's show with some exciting news.
1:04.2	We are, as you know, if you've been listening,
1:07.4	living in Costa Rica.
1:08.9	And we love it so much down here.
1:10.9	And we've been talking about doing something like this for a while now and
1:15.1	we are going to be hosting a Costa Rica couples retreat.
1:20.7	Yeah, we're going to be hosting it at the beginning of March. So this gives you a couple months to decide if this is something that you guys are interested in. We've been getting a lot of feedback from you and a retreat was something that so many of you said that you would be interested in.
1:37.5	So we've decided to go for it.
1:39.5	Yeah, so what is a Costa Rica's couple's retreat?
1:43.4	So the whole idea is, as we know from many of our guests
1:48.7	in relationship experts that doing new and exciting things is a great way to reinvigorate or to spark a relationship
1:59.2	or make you happy and healthy in your relationship.
2:03.2	So Sarah and I are down here and there's just everywhere we look,
2:08.0	there's new and exciting things for us.
2:10.6	And so with this retreat, we'll be doing stuff like horseback riding a TV four-wheeler
2:16.5	tours surf lessons nature tours there's monkeys everywhere around here. That's super cool. Hikes, waterfall hikes, and of course daily relationship exercises. We will work on communication skills, how to better relate to your partner, love
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