#189 - Relationship Advice From a Premarital Counselor
Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Knowing how to handle inevitable issues that creep into every relationship makes all the difference in whether your relationship becomes stronger over time... or strained.
The truth is that all couples need to learn "how" to do relationships, and there are a few core skills that are essential. My guests today are expert premarital counselors who are sharing their best advice for the things every couple must do to keep their relationship strong and healthy for the long haul.
Whether you're in a newly committed relationship or have been married for years, I hope you listen to this episode!
xoxo,
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
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| 0:00.0 | This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success |
| 0:10.0 | podcast. Mornings dreaming and I'm such a beautiful, such a beautiful song about kind of how it feels to live with someone you love day in, day out, good and bad, better and worse. And what better song to lead us into our topic today. Because today we are talking about the realities in a good way of what it really takes to have a happy, successful |
| 0:59.0 | marriage, because it's actually different than what a lot of people think it is going into it. |
| 1:08.3 | And knowledge is power, my friends. I don't know how you feel about this but I am a |
| 1:13.3 | big believer in education and what I have learned over the years in my role as a marriage |
| 1:21.1 | counselor premarital counselor dating coach is that people in early stage relationships have a set of beliefs and practices that |
| 1:34.4 | is really great for early stage relationships. And there comes a point in every relationship |
| 1:42.0 | where you need to learn how to have a really good |
| 1:47.9 | relationship with someone that you love. |
| 1:51.4 | And this does not just happen. |
| 1:54.1 | And I tell you what, I have been a marriage counselor for such a long time and I don't |
| 1:59.6 | think I've ever worked with a single couple who has not loved |
| 2:05.3 | each other at one point. They came together with the best of intentions. They had the highest of |
| 2:13.5 | hopes for their relationship and they simply did not know what to do when inevitable |
| 2:23.6 | conflict and friction began to creep up. And I want to stress this part. Conflict and friction are inevitable. There are a lot of myths about relationships, |
| 2:39.6 | and I think that is one of the most destructive, you know, this idea that good relationships, |
| 2:46.2 | happy relationships, don't have conflicts, they don't have problems. |
| 2:51.6 | And there's like this fundamental, magical compatibility that makes people feel like they're always on the same page. |
| 3:00.6 | They're always an agreement. |
| 3:02.6 | And a lot of couples, when they begin to experience the truth of what relationships are like for all of us, |
| 3:11.4 | if they believe those myths, those untrue myths about what relationships should be, |
| 3:18.2 | when the opposite begins to happen in their own partnership, when there is conflict, when there is disagreement, when they |
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