What needs to change? What are you expecting or what are you needing that I'm not doing?

It sounds like a business check and it sounds like a meeting but it's so needed because

if you want a relationship to be long-term, you can't just make one discussion and one decision

about this relationship and expect it to last forever.

Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose, the number one health podcast in the world,

thanks to each and every single one of you. I really hope that you've listened to the

World Smith episode by now. If you haven't, make sure you go back and listen to it.

It was phenomenal, it was groundbreaking. I've had so many comments and I've seen so many

reviews about that episode. If you've not gone and left a review already, please, please do it,

it makes a huge difference to the podcast. Now, today we're talking about the three reasons

relationships struggle and end and what we can learn from them. I've been asked so much recently

because I know that pandemic has negatively affected so many relationships or at least created

new struggles, new challenges, new issues in relationships and therefore we need new ideas,

new insights and new thoughts and that's what you're getting on today's episode.

Now, here's the straight up truth. Most relationships fail and most of them fail quickly.

Stanford sociologist Michael Rosenfeld followed over 3,000 people in couples, both married and

unmarried in heterosexual and same sex relationships and found that 70% of straight unmarried couples

break up within the first year. Yet when couples made it to the five year mark, their odds of splitting

up dropped to just 20%. Now, Radian and I obviously just celebrated our five year wedding anniversary

and I'm so grateful to have spent this much time with her and we can truly say that we think it

took like three, four years to even really start to get to know each other to really find that

momentum and groove. And so I can understand why people break up earlier than five years more

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