#138 - Getting Through Hard Times, Together

Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

Marriage, Mental Health, Success, Emotionalintelligence, Selfhelp, Wellness, Mentalhealth, Selfimprovement, Career, Health, Society & Culture, Careerdevelopment, Mindfulness, Lifeadvice, Dating, Parenting, Breakups, Relationships, Productivity, Positive, Happiness, Goals, Health & Fitness, Communication

4.6 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

When you get married or commit yourself to a long-term relationship, you're signing on to support each other through thick and thin. If you're fortunate, most of the time things are okay: the sun shines and you live in the benevolence of the universe. But not always.

Unexpected job loss, a death in the family, serious illness or infertility— these are only some of the common issues that many (most? all?) couples are going to face together at some point or another. These can be particularly challenging to cope with during the holiday season.

So, today on the show, we're going there and talking about how to negotiate these hard times successfully, as a couple.

Master marriage counselor, couples therapist, and relationship coach Meagan Terry, M.A., LMFT will be sharing her best relationship advice to help you both have greater empathy and compassion for each other when the chips are down. She'll be discussing communication strategies you can use to stay connected through hard times, and also some tips for how to support each other as individuals around things like illness, grief, and death, and infertility.

A master career coach is also sharing her best tips for how to cope with the stress of a layoff or job loss and stay connected with your partner as you go through it.

We hope that this discussion helps you find your way through this hard time together.

Yours sincerely,

Lisa Marie Bobby

www.growingself.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast. Today's music. Hmm.
0:40.2	Today's musical selection is a little arcane, but that is an excerpt of a gorgeous album.
0:48.8	The artist is Valentin Silvestrov.
0:52.7	The album is called Hieroglyphine Darnacht, so German for hieroglyphs of the
0:59.4	night. It's a really contemplative, beautiful classical album. If you're into that sort of thing,
1:08.0	I would recommend checking it out. I'm linking to it on iTunes if you want to add it to your collection.
1:14.3	But I thought that that bit there was a nice lead-in for our topic today because today on the show, we are going to be talking about how to deal with difficult things as a couple. So hard stuff,
1:33.3	you know, grief, loss, infertility, job loss. You know, I mean, if you've been in a relationship
1:40.5	for over about three years, sooner or later later you guys are going to go through something
1:45.6	real and these are things that I think aren't often discussed publicly the way that they should be
1:53.3	there's not a lot of guidance out there and it's been coming up lately around here at growing self
1:59.1	so I thought I would put together an episode of the
2:01.8	podcast to address this subject. So if you are going through some of these struggles, or if you
2:09.0	know someone going through something hard, you have a little bit of insight around how to get
2:14.7	through it as a couple, how to support yourself, how to support your partner,
2:18.8	or how to support your friends and family that might be going through some of these difficulties,
2:25.4	particularly, you know, as I'm recording this, we are now officially in the holiday season.
2:30.4	It's December. And especially during the holidays, you know, there's so much focus going
2:36.0	on to this hyper happy, you know, joy, joy that the reality of a lot of people's experience
2:43.7	can can sometimes be lost or disregarded. So that's what we're talking about today on the podcast.
2:52.8	If this is your first time listening to the love, happiness, and success podcast, welcome. I'm so glad you found us. I'm
2:59.7	Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby. I'm the founder and clinical director of growing self-counseling and coaching.
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