Answering Your Vulnerable Love Life Questions
Love Life With Matthew Hussey
Matthew Hussey
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In the first Love Life podcast of 2026, Matthew and Audrey are back for an honest conversation about simplifying your life and being more intentional about what—and who—you let in. They also talk about reducing chronic stress, protecting your mental health, and why the relationships you choose have an outsized impact on how happy and grounded you feel.
They also answer questions about things you may be carrying into the new year: the people you can’t quite release, the stories your mind keeps replaying, and the moments you feel put on the spot about your love life. This episode will help you start 2026 lighter and far more intentional.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we're back. First podcast of 26. Yeah, and my first podcast since we had our baby. |
| 0:11.6 | I know. So it feels good to be back? It feels really good to be back. But, you know, I miss him. When I'm not with him, I miss him. It's crazy. I miss him. I know. |
| 0:20.7 | We have a really exciting episode today. I've actually |
| 0:24.5 | pulled some questions. We went out to your Instagram audience and had them sending questions that |
| 0:32.0 | they wanted answers for 2026. So I'm really, really excited about this episode. But before we get |
| 0:37.3 | started, I had a question for you. |
| 0:39.3 | Because I think it's always really valuable hearing other people's intentions. |
| 0:43.3 | 2026, big year, what are your intentions and kind of what are the things you want to happen in 2026? |
| 0:52.3 | And what are the things you want to leave behind in 2025 to me the words that |
| 0:56.4 | really resonate are simplicity spaciousness and doing less better i want to be very very intentional about |
| 1:08.4 | the things that i'm doing i'm'm getting, I'm way better at saying |
| 1:11.6 | no than I used to be. I'm getting better at that all the time. I want to be brave in saying no, |
| 1:16.8 | you know, even when it kind of hurts to say no. But, you know, I want to create space this year. |
| 1:26.7 | I think that's, that's a big thing for me. You know, I think that in the course of my life, |
| 1:34.9 | what the, I'm not a grumpy person, but when I'm overwhelmed or when there's too much on |
| 1:41.7 | my plate, when I've taken too much on I get grumpy and |
| 1:45.0 | That isn't a me that I like because that's a very disconnected me |
| 1:52.8 | My own mindset my own mental health is like top of the list for me. You know I want to reduce |
| 1:59.7 | chronic stress there's a difference between |
| 2:02.1 | chronic and acute stress. Acute stress is like things you choose, you know, like running a race |
| 2:07.1 | or whatever. They're stressful, but they're good stressful. We're going on an adventure, |
| 2:11.9 | but there's bad stress, which is just chronic stress. And I'm really ruthlessly attacking the sources of my chronic stress this year |
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