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Relationship Advice

136: Empowering Your Partner

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

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

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

One of the benefits of being in a relationship is helping your partner become their best self. We can achieve this by empowering our partner through words of affirmation, validating their feelings and many other simple exercises. Listen to today's show to learn how to help your partner become the best version of themselves! In this episode we discuss relationship advice topics that include: How creating a 'best self' nickname for your partner can give them a huge boost and benefit your relationship. Validating your partner to help them heal childhood wounds. The importance of assuming your partner wants to come through for you. Creating an affirmation of your deepest desires that you can live into. Acting as if you're having an affair with your partner. And much more! Dr. Diana Kirschner was a frequent guest on The Today Show and starred in a PBS TV Special on love. She is the best-selling author of Love in 90 Days and 30 Days to Love: The Ultimate Relationship Turnaround Guide. Dr. Diana has helped thousands all over the world to find passionate lasting love. Her free Dating Tips & Relationship Advice newsletter is available at lovein90days.com. Free Gift: Get Dr. Diana's free gift of a 40 minute Love Mentor Coaching session by visiting her website Love In 90 Days and enter referred by I DO on the form. Full show notes and episode links at: http://idopodcast.com/136 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 or your partner struggling boosting each other up? If so, you're not alone. Continue the conversation on our Facebook Group here: Love Tribe Sponsors Lola: LOLA is a monthly subscription that delivers a fully customizable box of ORGANIC cotton tampons, pads and liners right to your doorstep. For 40% off your first order, visit mylola.com and enter the promo code IDO when you subscribe! 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 going on?

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going on?

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Welcome to ID Podcast.

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Thanks so much for joining us on this lovely day.

0:36.1

Yeah, hopefully it's lovely wherever you are.

0:38.9

It is, it's like Groundhog Day here in Costa Rica.

0:42.8

Sunny and 80s, so sorry if you are living somewhere cold and you're like,

0:50.0

dang it guys, you're killing me snowing outside but there can be beauty there I guess if you're dressed for the occasion it's all right but we are

1:01.0

enjoying life down here in Costa Rica, running a bunch of interviews.

1:05.8

We've had some really great guests on the show, a lot of new stuff that we haven't heard

1:12.0

before and advice that we are going to be putting into our relationship

1:16.4

and today is no different with our interview with Dr. Diana Kirshner and Dr.

1:23.0

Diana was a frequent guest on the Today Show and starred in a PBS TV special on Love and has helped

1:31.0

thousands all over the world find passionate lasting love.

1:35.9

And she does that through her dating tips and relationship advice website and newsletter available at love in 90 days.com and Dr.

1:47.9

Diana had some really unique and interesting tips for us about a wide range of relationship topics.

1:58.4

We started with how to empower our partner and got all the way down to communicating our deepest desires and the way to do that.

2:08.0

And we'll just tell you a little preview, but on the empowering your partner, I think this is going to be the best

2:13.8

and one that we're looking forward to and that is coming up with a diamond

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self or a best self name for your partner.

2:22.5

So we all know pet names, right?

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