Achieving Your Couple Goals | E330

Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

YAP Media Network | Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

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

4.7 • 890 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

What goals do you have for your relationship? If an answer immediately sprang to your mind, that’s fantastic. You already know what you’d like to work on with your partner, and doing that work together will help you create a stronger, happier, and more sustainable relationship. But if you’re like most people, you might not have clear “couple goals” that you’re working toward. Even if you’re someone who sets goals for your career, your finances, and even your hobbies, you may not yet think about your relationship as an area where you can build skills, develop yourself, and work toward mastery. That’s because even the most responsible, conscientious, and goal-oriented among us tend to be more reactive than proactive when it comes to our relationships. Much to the chagrin of every marriage counselor I know, many people believe that relationship growth work is only for couples who have significant problems. In reality, proactively working on your relationship a little bit every day is how you prevent significant problems from taking root in the first place. Setting couple goals is a way to challenge yourselves and each other, and intentionally grow together into the best possible partners you can be. I hope this episode of the podcast gives you some insight into the kind of proactive, positive, growth-oriented relationship work that you and your partner can begin doing right now — while you’re still happy and in love and having a fabulous time together. Joining me for this conversation is my Growing Self colleague Sara B., a couples counselor and a relationship coach on our team. Sara has helped many people create their ideal relationships, and on today’s podcast, she’s serving up some actionable advice you won’t want to miss. With love, Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby growingself.com

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0:00.0	This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success
0:07.2	podcast. Today, you probably have goals for your career, your finances, even your hobbies,
0:13.7	but what about your goals for your relationship? On today's episode, we're talking about
0:19.9	setting goals together to become a stronger couple and design your shared future.
0:30.9	Oh, it's so good, it's so good, it's so good, it's so good, it's so good, it's so good.
0:43.3	The one and only Donna Summer people, if anybody has ever captured the feeling slash experience of relationship bliss, it is is Donna Summer. And this, of course,
0:57.3	is her just famous partnership with the godfather of electronic dance music, Giorgio Maroder,
1:05.9	from I think 1977, I want to say. Anyway, fantastic stuff. And I felt like playing it for us today because today
1:14.5	we are talking about couple goals and why really talking about these and getting super
1:22.4	intentional with your partner on what you guys want to do together to improve your relationship, grow yourselves,
1:30.4	and what you want to work on to have common goals and a plan for how to create them and make
1:37.4	them happen is what will allow you too to experience the relational bliss that you both deserve. And my guest today is my
1:48.3	colleague Sarah Beach, who is a licensed marriage and family therapist, just like me. She's also a
1:54.6	relationship coach, and she is on our team here, a growing self. And I know that Sarah loves helping couples achieve goals
2:03.4	and she has such a positive outlook and style. I thought she was the perfect person to help us
2:09.5	on our goal today, which is helping you achieve couples' goals. So Sarah, thank you for doing this
2:15.4	with me today. Thank you so much for inviting me on. I'm so excited
2:19.4	to talk about this with you. Yeah. Well, this is the fun work, right? I mean, I don't know about you,
2:26.4	but my favorite kind of couples work are, you know, so premarital couples who are super, you know,
2:33.4	cute and fun and like, how do we just
2:35.6	have the best marriage in the world? I'm like, okay, let's do this. Or certainly relationship
2:40.1	coaching, you know, like with really growth-oriented, proactive couples who are looking at this,
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