In opening this conversation up you want to acknowledge anything they do for the relationship

you want to show appreciation and it's not just that I'm noticing your faults I'm also

noticing that you do these things and I want us to be a better team and I know that we

have it in us because we've done it and we've kind of fallen off because life's busy so how can we approach this

together in creating the partnership family dynamic life that we want. I'm Amy.

And I'm Abby, and as women we are constantly comparing ourselves to others.

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Today on the podcast we have Shaina from Love After Baby back on. If you've been listening for a while, she was on episode 170 and we talked all about keeping love in our

partnerships after babies come into the picture.

Shanna has had another baby, more marriage experience,

and also become a Gottman bringing baby home educator.

So this is infused with so many tips

on if you feel like your partnership isn't in a strong place how to

bring it back together what to do if your partner isn't open to therapy like

there's a lot of good nuggets in here so now onto the show.

So today we want to start off by diving into a challenge that we just know our

community faces so maybe it's in the baby years maybe it's in the little years, maybe it's in the little kid years, maybe some of our community members have older kids and they're still facing it, but it's this idea that your partner starts to feel like your roommate. So instead of just your romantic partner, they're just kind of this person who's there.

So in your practice, are you seeing that this is pretty common or just help us out with this answer? Yeah, so first of all, this is super common and I also want to say that since the last time I was on this

podcast, I've had my third baby. I believe I was pregnant last time we spoke, and I also got another

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