134: 11 Tips for Better Connection with Your Spouse – Part 2

Cultivate a Good Life

Becky Higgins, LLC

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🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Be sure you listen to episode 133 before listening to this one. In part 2 of this conversation, we continue to discuss a few tips that can help promote connection within your marriage. Our hope is that after listening to these episodes you feel better equipped to turn away from outside pressures and focus on those specific things that you feel will deepen the connection in your own relationship. SHOW NOTES: (continued from episode 133…) TIP 4: Stay curious about your spouse. TIP 5: Recognize that it is not your spouse’s job to fulfill you. TIP 6: Unvoiced expectations are not fair and they will kill your marriage. TIP 7: Don’t project how you receive love onto your spouse. TIP 8: Don’t underestimate the power of a good walk. TIP 9: Assume the best. TIP 10: Don’t overemphasize holidays. TIP 11: Be insanely clear and direct in your communication. BONUS CHALLENGE: Don’t underestimate the power of the written word and find ways to utilize it as a means to communicate with your spouse that you are thinking of them. A few resources discussed in this episode: CD Series: For All Eternity by John Lund Book: The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM: @BeckyHigginsLLC and @BeckyProudfit. THANKS FOR THE LOVE! Love the podcast? Please share with your friends, tag us in your Instagram stories, and leave a review on iTunes!

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0:00.0	This is Cultivated Good Life Episode 134.
0:03.1	11 tips for better connection with your spouse, part two.
0:21.3	Hey everybody, we are Becky Higgins and Becky Proudfit.
0:24.6	And we're here today to bring you the second part
0:27.1	of this valuable conversation that we started
0:29.2	with Episode 133.
0:31.4	So let's keep going and let's hear the rest of these tips
0:34.0	for being better connected with your spouse.
0:39.7	Number four is stay curious about your spouse.
0:42.2	Higgins just told us she's been worried, what, 26 years?
0:45.3	I've been married 18 years.
0:47.0	Okay, there are times when I feel like I know my spouse
0:50.4	better than he knows himself or I can predict,
0:53.2	oh, this is what he's going to say
0:54.4	if this, this, and this happens.
0:57.0	That is the most condescending thing you can possibly do
1:00.4	to human beings, say, oh, I know them better than, no,
1:03.8	you need to stay curious about your spouse and keep learning
1:08.0	about your spouse.
1:09.6	One of the things Taylor and I work on,
1:11.5	because this is something, honestly,
1:12.9	and I share this because Taylor would love me to share it.
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