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Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

36 Tough times during pregnancy

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

539.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Today in episode 36 of Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew, we’re bringing you the next part in a mini series all about our relationship. You’ve been with us for this whole journey—trying to get pregnant and miscarrying, talking through how our miscarriage affected our relationship, mixed emotions trying to get pregnant again, and now how actually *being* pregnant affected our relationship. It was different, that’s for sure! So we’ll walk you through those feelings and how our relationship provided a source of support through it all. How to prepare financially for a child ▶ https://bit.ly/3kCvzgY “Dude, You’re Gonna Be A Dad!” – book ▶ https://amzn.to/369Aouv If you haven’t yet, please rate Couple Things and subscribe to hear more. And if you have suggestions/recommendations for the show, send us your ideas in a video format – we might just choose yours! Email us at [email protected]. ––– We’re supported by the following companies we love! Make sure to check them out using our links below. Care/of! Use code COUPLETHINGS50 for 50% off your first Care/of order! ▶ https://takecareof.com Best Fiends! Download Best Fiends FREE on the Apple App Store or Google Play. Learn more ▶ https://bestfiends.com/games/best-fiends/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everybody welcome back to couple things with Sean and Andrew a podcast all about couples and the things they go through today

0:15.0

We are continuing our series about our relationship our pregnancy and everything in between but before we get started if you haven't yet

0:24.4

We would be honored if you subscribe to the show and give it a rating. It's been fun to hear your feedback and a lot of you like our alternating schedule of interviews to just Sean and Andrew

0:35.5

So we're gonna keep that up for the time being and we have a fun little run a show today

0:40.2

We're gonna be talking about how

0:42.2

pregnancy

0:43.4

Changes your relationship. Yeah, we left off talking about kind of our journey to getting pregnant and us finding out

0:51.6

We are pregnant with our daughter Drew. We did not know that she was true. We didn't know she was a girl. Her boy was a surprise

0:59.6

But we thought

1:01.6

You could talk about our the dynamic of our relationship because a lot of things change when you become pregnant and

1:10.6

It takes like an adjustment period to get used to it takes about nine months and then we'll have to talk about what happens after that

1:17.6

Because that's a whole different journey. But when you find out you're pregnant

1:23.6

It immediately shows you just how life changes between a husband and a wife. Yeah, I feel like the dynamic is already different when you're engaged and you're dating because girls

1:35.6

Feel different things guys feel different things we have different worries and fears and thoughts and whatever

1:41.6

But when a kid becomes involved now you're dealing with one partner is carrying you know or in our in our circumstance

1:51.6

I was carrying the child

1:54.6

You were on the other side with I opted not to yes

1:57.6

Yes, but it just it automatically splits your relationship in your dynamic as parents and makes

2:07.6

Not for some tension, but just

2:09.6

More things that be easily become misunderstood. So it's obviously a time of huge growth. Sorry of huge change and thus an opportunity for growth. Let me start by saying I view

2:24.6

The definition of love as your willingness to sacrifice and so I think when

2:31.6

Sacrifice being a good thing and not a bad thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, not like not like giving up what you were called to do as a human but like

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