45. Tips on Working With A Spouse: Communication, Boundaries, and Shared Joy
Plenty with Kate Northrup
Kate Northrup
4.8 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Ever wondered how to keep the spark alive in your relationship while juggling a business and family life?
In this episode of Plenty, I am celebrating my 10-year anniversary with my husband and business partner, Mike. In honor of this special day, I am sharing my insights on 10 years of marriage and my top 9 tips on how to work with your spouse. I discuss the importance of maintaining individual lives, financial transparency, setting boundaries, and cultivating joy both together and apart. I also emphasize the significance of having clear roles and responsibilities, scheduling clarity, and the power of fun in keeping relationships vibrant. Tune in for practical advice, tips, and heartfelt reflections on building a thriving partnership in love and business.
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| 0:00.0 | It's really critical that we both have full robust lives together and full robust lives apart. |
| 0:09.8 | I can't even tell you how attractive it is when Mike has all these plans with his guy friends |
| 0:17.1 | or doing this thing or planning this thing. It's wonderful because I know that I am not |
| 0:22.8 | his only source of joy or emotional nourishment. Same with me. Like I have all kinds of things |
| 0:29.6 | going on that I'm happy to tell him about and share with him, but I bring that energy back to our |
| 0:36.3 | back to our marriage, but I'm not dependent on |
| 0:40.0 | our marriage as my only source of social and emotional nourishment. |
| 0:46.4 | Welcome to Plenty. I'm your host, Kate Northrop, and together we are going on a journey |
| 0:52.6 | to help you have an incredible relationship with money, |
| 0:56.6 | time, and energy. |
| 0:58.9 | And to have abundance on every possible level. |
| 1:03.8 | Every week, we're going to dive in with experts and insights to help you unlock a life of Plenty. Let's go fill our cups. |
| 1:14.2 | Please note that the opinions and perspectives of the guests on the Plenty podcast are not |
| 1:19.1 | necessarily reflective of the opinions and perspectives of Kate Northrup or anyone |
| 1:23.6 | who works within the Kate Northrop brand. Oh my goodness. Today is my 10th wedding anniversary, which is hard to believe because I feel |
| 1:32.1 | like I literally got married last year. And I do not know how it has been 10 years. I mean, |
| 1:39.5 | I do feel like I've been with Mike for our entire lifetime. But I also feel like, what is time anyway? |
| 1:46.0 | I mean, we're just things, I don't know, I'll just say to celebrate, things are the best they've |
| 1:52.3 | ever been in our marriage and more connected than even 10 years ago in many ways. And so for anyone who is in a relationship where it's gotten |
| 2:05.4 | stagnant or stale or like the spark went out, we have been through those periods of time, |
| 2:12.3 | particularly around like times of young kids, particularly around times of Mike's illness and injuries. Like, |
| 2:19.3 | you know, it was not a sexy time. But I will just say, it keeps getting better and better. |
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