271: The 5 Core Conversations For Couples

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

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

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

When your husband is a divorce lawyer, and you're a family therapist, you learn a lot about relationship dynamics. Julie and David Bulitt share the knowledge they've learned through their personal and professional lives in order to help us create better relationships. Listen to today's show to learn the five core conversations couples can discuss in order to improve their relationship today! In this episode, we discuss relationship advice topics that include: The importance of remembering why you connected with your partner in the first place How to handle conflicts around money and downsizing during tough financial times What Julie and David have learned about themselves as a couple parenting 4 daughters How we can take comfort in the struggles of other couples Why sex is one of the primary complaints they hear from couples in their professional lives The importance of making time for ourselves in a relationship And much more! A licensed clinical social worker, Julie Bulitt has spent more than 25 years working with individuals, couples and families. Her private practice focuses on family, couples and individual therapy, she also serves as in house therapist at The Discovery Channel in Silver Spring Maryland. David Bulitt is a partner in the Washington DC Metro law firm of Joseph, Greenwald & Laake, PA. For more than a decade, he has been chosen as one of the Washington area’s top divorce lawyers by multiple publications. He has particular interest in families with special needs children as a result of personal experiences in his own family. David and Julie have been married for 34 years. They have four daughters, two of whom are biological and two adopted, and three grandchildren. For more information on our guest, and for the episode links visit: https://idopodcast.com/271 Spark My Relationship Course: Get $100 off our online course. Visit SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock for our special offer just for our I Do Podcast listeners! Podcast Series: Love Under Quarantine 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. Function of Beauty is the world’s first fully customizable hair care brand. Visit FunctionofBeauty.com/IDO to take your four part hair profile quiz and save 20% on your first order. 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.
0:17.0	Take me to the place in the middle of the sun. What's going on on,
0:25.0	what's going on guys?
0:29.0	What's going on guys? Thanks for tuning into today's show.
0:32.0	Hey Love Tribe, yes, welcome.
0:35.0	Thanks for being here with us today.
0:36.0	We have a super fun interview with David and Julie Bullitt
0:42.0	and they have been married for 34 years.
0:45.6	Julie is a licensed clinical social worker and has spent the last more than 25 years
0:51.9	working with individuals couples and families and
0:54.3	David is a divorce lawyer and the Washington DC metro area.
0:59.4	And obviously that's a super unique conversation with Julie being a therapist, David, a divorce lawyer, and they're seeing people on similar spectrums.
1:11.0	And obviously David is getting people that are usually a bit upset with each other, they're
1:16.8	divorcing and Julie maybe couples families struggling or they're doing well but from these two unique perspectives and so they
1:25.4	came together and they wrote a book yeah the five core conversations for couples and
1:30.9	that's what we talk about today and we really appreciate them giving a lot of personal stories.
1:37.2	We think this is really valuable for us to hear and for you guys as well to know that
1:45.0	Relationships take work and there's hard things in the relationship and we talk about them through these five conversations and it really goes like this building and filling
1:56.2	that's the beginning of the relationship finances parenting sex and
2:01.9	balancing the relationship.
2:03.8	So we talk about each of those and we really enjoyed today's conversation.
2:08.6	Yeah, we really loved having both of them on, both of their perspectives and really them as a couple. They just seem
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