94: How Netflix Can Improve Your Relationship

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

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

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Suzanne Degges-White, PhD, is professor and chair of the Department of Counseling, Adult and Higher Education at Northern Illinois University. She earned her PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is a licensed counselor and has over 15 years of experience working with children, adolescents and adults, including couples and families. Her research interests include the development of identity and intimate relationships including family relationships, romantic relationships and friendships. She has authored several books addressing relationships including Friends Forever: How Girls and Women Forge Lasting Relationships; Toxic Friendships: Knowing the Rules and Dealing with the Friends who Break Them; Mothers and Daughters: Living, Loving, and Learning over a Lifetime; and Sisters and Brothers for Life: Making Sense of Sibling Relationships in Adulthood. She also is a featured blogger for Psychology Today. In this episode we discuss relationship topics that include: Why it's important to develop rituals as a couple. How to develop a unique relationship identity and why it's important. How binging on Netflix can actually be a good thing for your relationship. Learning to preserve your relationship's identity and that of your own. And much more! Sponsors Talkspace: The online therapy company that believes that therapy should be affordable, confidential and convenient. Join over 500,000 people who have used Talkspace for online therapy with their licensed therapist. Get $30 off your first month when you visit Talkspace.com/IDO. Audible: Use the link below, and sign up for a free 30-day trial and one free audiobook download! You will have to enter your CC information, but you can just cancel the trial at the end of the month if you don’t like it and not pay a dime. There are a ton of great relationship audiobooks on Audible.com. Consider downloading The 5 Love Languages for your free download. If you haven’t already subscribed to I Do Podcast and left us a review on iTunes, that helps us a ton as well Thanks! – Chase and Sarah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're going to. Take me to the place in the middle of the sun. What's up?
0:27.0	up podcast listeners.
0:30.0	Hi guys, welcome to I do podcast where we interview the world's leading relationship marriage
0:35.2	dating and self-help experts.
0:38.1	Whether you're dating single married or struggling in a relationship we're here to help give you the tools to succeed.
0:45.8	And on today's show, we welcome Dr.
0:48.2	Suzanne Dags White.
0:50.4	And Suzanne is a professor and chair of the Department of Counseling, Adult in Higher Education at Northern Illinois University, and she is also an author and feature blogger at Psychology Today.
1:06.0	And on today's episode we talk about creating a unique identity as a couple
1:12.0	and why it's important to create and work on
1:16.7	creating a unique identity but why it's also critical that you don't lose
1:21.7	yourself in the identity of the relationship.
1:25.8	So in a relationship we have two people coming together.
1:29.9	Each of those is an individual and then we have this third entity and that's the relationship
1:35.0	and it is almost it is what happens when two people come together and you come together
1:41.8	bringing your own background but then once you're together you are
1:45.4	creating something new and that's the relationship and that relationship has an identity so
1:50.4	working on that identity establishing what what it is, doing different things to establish it is critical.
1:57.6	And then at the same time, not getting lost in it in your own identity that is maybe left behind sometimes.
2:05.8	So Suzanne gives us a lot of great tips on how to do that in today's episode.
2:10.8	And as always, we appreciate you guys so much for listening you can
2:15.0	subscribe to the podcast leave us a review that helps so much and we are just
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