166: Staying Connected When Life Gets Busy

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

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

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Life is busy. Work, kids, Netflix, your phone. There are more things than ever pulling us away from our partners. Maintaining connection is a key component of a happy and healthy relationship. Use the actionable tips from today’s episode to stay connected and nurture your relationship. In this episode we discuss relationship advice topics that include: Understanding the importance of greeting your partner when you leave or enter the house and how to do it Creating and implementing a going to bed ritual How to avoid letting technology negatively affect your relationship. Fun games to play to engage with your partner and keep things new and exciting The importance of asking your partner on a date and how to do it right And much more! Dr. Jennifer Lagrotte, DMFT, LMHC, LMFT, a therapist in practice in Parkland, FL, specializes in working with couples. She is an expert on showing couples how to stop fighting and start communicating. Her passion is couples, and she has dedicated her work to exclusively working with couples. Her speciality is affair recovery and uses the Atone/Attune/Attach Method, learned from in-person training with Julie and John Gottman. Full show notes and episode links at: http://idopodcast.com/166 Sign up for our 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge here: 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge Do you want to hear more on this topic? Continue the conversation on our Facebook Group here: Love Tribe Sponsors J.J. Virgin’s 7-Day Stop, Drop & Swap Challenge: The 7-Day Challenge is designed to help you stop classic symptoms of food intolerance and drop up to 7 pounds in 7 days by swapping out 7 problem foods for healthy, tasty alternatives. Join here! Spark My Relationship Course:Get access to our special offer for I Do Podcast listeners only by visiting: SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock 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	And Take me to the place in the middle of the sun.
0:17.0	Take me to the place in the middle of the sun. Hey Love Travers. What's going on guys? Thank you for joining us today. We hope you are having a beautiful early fall day.
0:37.8	Fall is upon us. Upon us.
0:41.0	And one of my favorite times a year, you know, being in Florida where we were the last,
0:49.4	Sarah grew up there, I was there for about 15 years and the repressive heat and humidity of summer finally started to let up usually end of September.
1:00.0	And yeah, it was just always very welcomed.
1:03.4	Yes.
1:04.2	So hope you are enjoying that.
1:06.4	If you're coming to us from a humid place, less humidity,
1:10.2	and hope it's not too cold if you're north up there.
1:13.7	So today we have Dr. Jennifer Lagrada and she is a therapist in practice in Florida.
1:21.6	So hopefully she's enjoying the lower humidity and specializes in working with couples.
1:30.2	And today's topic, we dig into how to stay connected when you have a hectic schedule.
1:37.0	But this can be really applied to anyone.
1:38.8	Hopefully you don't have a hectic schedule, but I'm willing to bet 99% of our listeners don't just
1:46.3	hang out all day and have nothing to do. Right or maybe you don't have a hectic
1:50.9	schedule but you've been together for a long time like we have and so you
1:56.5	come across challenges of you know connection and wanting to reconnect with your partner.
2:02.1	Yeah so Dr Jennifer gives us some great tools, practical tools that you can implement today
2:08.8	in your relationship throughout the day.
2:11.4	Really we kind of start with when you wake up all the way to when you go to bed some things to do at the beginning in middle and end of your day, stay connected.
2:23.0	And we've gone ahead and compiled all the tips that Jennifer has given us into a little cheat
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