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Relationship Advice

130: Achieving Work-Life Balance In Your Relationship

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

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

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Are you struggling to achieve a healthy work-life balance in your relationship? Do you feel like your partner is focusing more on work and less on you and the relationship? It's easy for our relationships to take a back seat to a busy job or a new business venture. There are only so many hours in a day, and much of the time is spent working. Don't let work ruin your relationship. Listen to today's show to find out the key tools to balance your work life with your romantic life.   In this episode we discuss relationship advice topics that include: How to manage your time between work and your relationship.  Creating weekly agreements to manage expectations and avoid conflicts.  How to be present with your spouse and forget about work while at home.  Setting boundaries on when to talk about work and when to 'keep it at the office'.  The importance of checking in with your partner and letting them know you care about their work, while not letting it overshadow the relationship.  Using shared calendars to help manage time, expectations and work-relationship balance.  Dorcas Cheng-Tozun is an award-winning writer and author of Start, Love, Repeat: How to Stay in Love with Your Entrepreneur in a Crazy Start-up World. She is a columnist for Inc.com and has written for dozens of other publications. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her entrepreneur husband and their two young boys Full show notes and episode links at: http://idopodcast.com/130 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 achieving a work-relationship balnce? If so, you're not alone. Continue the conversation on our Facebook Group here: Love Tribe Sponsors 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. Lovelands: Lovelands is a highly readable guide to creating the relationship and life you most deeply desire, by psychologist Dr Debra Campbell. If you’ve ever wondered why you keep going wrong in love and how to make lasting change for the better — Lovelands will show you how to make that change, not just in your relationship but in every area of your life. Get your copy of Lovelands today — available in hardcover, Amazon and Audible. 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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And Take me to the place in the middle of the sun.

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Take me to the place in the middle of the sun. What's up? What's up? What's going on, guys? What's going to

0:29.0

what's up? I do podcast listeners. What's going on guys? Welcome to the show. Thank you for joining us. We hope you

0:37.1

are having a wonderful start to 2018 that you are not letting those New Year's

0:42.0

resolutions already go to the wayside as they

0:45.5

often do what do they January like is the highest month for gym membership

0:51.0

oh yeah and it's always the busiest right and I hated going to the gym in January

0:55.8

when we live back in the States. So if you're listening to this while you're at the gym good on you

1:00.5

keep it up stay stay on it.

1:03.0

And hopefully maybe some of those resolutions

1:05.8

involved improving your relationship.

1:08.0

And if they did, maybe it was, listen to I do podcast every day.

1:13.9

Go through the archives and run through all the episodes.

1:16.4

But it is always a good idea to try to work on yourself

1:21.8

and certainly work on your relationship and a lot of times those are one and the same.

1:27.0

And you know, there's just, through all of our shows. There's so much value in not only improving your relationship, like with a spouse or a partner, but just with your family, with your friends, all these things, communication styles, how to empathize,

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how to listen.

1:49.5

Those are things that can be applied to any relationship in your life.

1:54.0

Absolutely and especially with today's topic.

1:57.0

We have Dorcas Chen Sue on and unfortunately I'm not in the interview because Stella had the flu and so we were all

2:07.1

laying in bed for that week. So I'm not in the interview but it is an excellent interview and

2:11.6

Chase did a great job and I will let him take the

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