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Relationship Advice

216: Reconnecting and Dealing with Impossible Relationship Moments

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

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

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever feel disconnected from your partner? Well, don't worry — at one point, all relationships will face various levels of disconnect. Listen to today's show to learn how to reconnect with your partner, and get through what might feel like an impossible relationship moment. In this episode, we discuss relationship advice topics that include:  Learn how attachment theory helps explain some of the relationship stress we experience when we become parents How to go from threatened to empathetic in our relationship conflicts Dealing with the feeling of being in an 'impossible place' in a relationship Sharing your vulnerability with your partner And much more! Fiachra “Figs” O’Sullivan, is the Founder and Chief Empathy at Empathi, which provides step-by-step guidance for couples and individuals who care about their relationships. He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, who is certified in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples an dindividuals, and a passionate entrepreneur, driven to change lives for the better. Full show notes and episode links at: http://idopodcast.com/216 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 Zola: Zola is the wedding company that will do anything for love. They are reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience to make the happiest moment in our couples’ lives even happier. To get 30% off your invites and paper order visit ZOLA.com/ido. 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.2

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0:40.0

The rules are, there are no rules. Have a cantonese on Christmas Eve or a faulty

0:45.6

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1:29.0

What's going on guys?

1:30.0

What's going on guys?

1:31.0

Thank you for tuning in. Yes we have a super enlightening

1:35.9

podcast I think for Chase and I today where we interview Figs O'Sullivan and

1:41.7

Figs is a licensed marriage and family therapist who lives in San Francisco.

1:48.1

He has two children, I think two and five and he's got a super cool accent and name and name

1:56.3

he's just super cool all around but in all seriousness I don't know about you

2:00.9

Sarah but this was one of my favorite

2:03.0

I was we've done I mean over 200 and we've had a lot of amazing ones and we

2:10.8

started it with the general topic of talking about parenting and dealing with that within the relationship, but really, and it applies to that, but we talk about dealing with impossible moments in a relationship and

2:27.3

sometimes parenting can feel that way and he talks about how it's related to that but really

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