235: How To Create The Relationship You Want

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

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

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Want to feel empowered? How about realizing that YOU have the power to create the relationship of your dreams and find your own happiness. Many of us look to our partners to make us happy in our relationships. Listen to today's show to understand why that's the wrong approach and how to switch that mindset. In this episode, we discuss relationship advice topics that include: Getting rid of the expectation that our partner will make us happy Self reflection practices to understand your contribution to creating conflict Realizing that relationship issues don't always get solved Using conflict for growth in your relationship Developing positive characteristics in yourself And much more! As an author and public speaker with 40 years of experience in psychotherapy, Larry Shushansky has written a book called Independent Enough and is looking to share his theory with as many people as possible. Larry turns his theories on relationships into achievable day-to-day practices for his audiences through engaging, conversational-style presentations. Full show notes and episode links at: https://idopodcast.com/235 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 BetterHelp:Get help on your own time and at your own pace. Get 10% off your first month by visiting BetterHelp.com/IDO. Baked By Melissa: This Valentine’s Day, send your loved ones the perfect gift - Baked by Melissa. Go to BakedByMelissa.com/ido and use promo code IDO to get 15% off your order! 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. Hey guys. Thanks for tuning in and welcome to the relationship advice podcast. We're happy to have you here.
0:36.0	We have another great show for you today where we welcome
0:40.0	Larry Shoshansky and Larry is a speaker, author, and has been a psychotherapist for 40 years.
0:46.9	And married for 35. Pretty amazing. He has some amazing stories to share with you guys today about his journey and his relationship and just all very touching. It was a wonderful interview.
1:01.0	Yeah, some really great personal stories that relate to today's topic of how we can be independent and rely on ourselves and not our partners for relationship happiness.
1:15.0	And this is a theme we've talked about in past episodes,
1:18.0	but we really focus on it for the whole episode.
1:21.0	And it's really just such a powerful stance because many of you
1:25.7	are probably listening to the show by yourselves.
1:30.1	If you're listening to with your partner, then that's great.
1:33.6	But sometimes it might feel like you're on this journey
1:36.7	and you want to improve the relationship
1:38.6	and maybe you're kind of dragging your partner along.
1:42.2	And Larry talks about the framework to
1:46.4	approach it in a way that you don't feel like your relationship success relies on your partner kind of getting on board and so I just really like that stance it's been really valuable and
2:00.4	Sarah and I's own relationship even if you're feeling good with your partner and there's
2:05.1	not things gone necessarily wrong there's not conflict Larry has a great
2:10.2	perspective for you guys today.
2:14.0	And we appreciate you guys so much for tuning in, for sharing with a friend,
2:18.3	for supporting our sponsors, all of that.
2:21.0	Help support us and helps us produce this show for free for you guys.
2:24.7	So thank you so much and if you haven't checked out our Love Tribe on Facebook, head on
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