201: You Cook, I'll Clean

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

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

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

You take the kids to soccer, I'll do the laundry. We all have roles in our relationships, however, we don't often talk about them in the most productive way. Listen to today's show to learn about relationship roles, and how to find a balance that works for you and your partner. In this episode we discuss relationship advice topics that include: Understanding where our ideas of realtionship roles come from What to do if you feel there's an unfair balance of roles in your relationship How to communicate about what you'd like your relationship roles to be The importance of checking in with your partner regarding relationship roles Gender roles and cultural influences on relationships And much more! Dr. Ilene S. Cohen, is a psychotherapist, professor, blogger and author of the popular self-help books "When It's Never About You" and "Its Within You." Her work regularly appears in top psychology publications like Psychology Today. Full show notes and episode links at: http://idopodcast.com/201 Sign up for our 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge here: 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge Join our 5 Day Couples Appreciation Challenge here: idopodcast.com/appreciation Do you want to hear more on this topic? Continue the conversation on our Facebook Group here: Love Tribe Sponsors Indochino: Our listeners can get any premium Indochino suit for just $359 at indochino.com when entering IDO at checkout. That’s 50% off the regular price for a made-to-measure, premium suit. Plus, shipping is FREE. Incredible deal for a premium made to measure suit! Once you go custom you don't go back. Spark My Relationship Course: For a limited time, get access to our bonus, Mastering Money Talk In Your Marriage! Visit SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock for our special offer just for our I Do Podcast listeners! 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. What is going on, Love Tribe?
0:30.0	What is going on, Love Tribe? Welcome to the show.
0:32.0	Thanks for joining us. If is your first episode or your 200th episode.
0:37.0	Thank you. Are we over 200 yet?
0:41.0	We are. Yes. We made it. That is pretty awesome. Thank you for joining us here today for another great episode where we welcome Dr. Eileen Cohen and she is a psychotherapist, professor, blogger, and author of the popular
0:57.5	self-health books, When It's Never About You and It's Within within you and today we talk about roles in the
1:06.3	relationship. Yeah today we talked with Eileen about the importance of
1:11.7	having those conversations in your relationship
1:14.8	about the roles and duties that each person does so that there is
1:20.8	never a huge blow-up when things aren't going as planned.
1:26.0	There are a lot of reasons to communicate about the roles and it's a big part of being in a relationship.
1:33.9	It's like the role when you live alone is like, well, you do everything.
1:38.3	And if you don't do it, then you have to live with dirty dishes and dirty house or taking care of the dog or whatever.
1:47.2	But when you're in a relationship, things gotta not necessarily balance out because it's not
1:52.1	all about balance and Eileen and Sarah and I dive
1:56.4	into that in today's show. So check it out as always. We appreciate you guys for tuning in and enjoy today's show.
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2:31.4	That's Spark My Relationship.com slash unlock. Hi Eileen, thank you so much for joining us back on the show.
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