This is I'm your host Ryan Nidell and today's episode is

Expectations versus Reality.

So here we are, episode 82,

episode in which I have my beautiful wife in the studio with me.

Say hello sweetheart.

Hello sweetheart.

Always has jokes.

Today we're a little more relaxed, feet up on the desk,

gonna discuss expectations versus reality and what that means in

permanence to a relationship. You know, any relationship that I've ever been in,

whether friendship or intimate relationship with a female, obviously not a male, I've always had some

sort of expectations going into it, expectations of whether it be communication

that we covered in the last episode, whether it be monetary function, whether it be progression

in the future, there's always been some sort of expectation. And that was true

in the relationship I have with Lindsay and I believe if asked sweetheart you probably had

expectations of me as well correct yeah everybody does I mean even if you're

starting a friendship with somebody you have an expectation of something of

course and what I found is the fact that those expectations typically end up

being some sort of limiting factor because anytime you have an expectation you're

almost setting yourself up for some sort of failure. Now you can navigate

those troubled waters by openly expressing what those expectations are. And we

cover that in the last episode a little bit on the fact of communicating and why it's important to share with your partner.

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