Hey, everybody. Welcome and thank you for listening to this episode of Marriage Therapy Radio. My name is Zach Biddle and I am delighted to be here with Robin and Hector. They were on the podcast for the first time about a year ago, almost exactly a year ago, if you're listening to this in March of 2006. They're delightful. Robin has a platform called Real Love Ready. I first met her when she interviewed Laura and I. And then she and her partner, Hector, agreed to come on. And they've agreed to come on a year later. A couple of years ago, Laura and I recorded an episode of Baird-Serpiredo number 262, and it was about the State of the Union conversation. It is the episode that I recommend most often. it is the tool that people tell me is most helpful when they use it on their own.

Um, so, the union conversation. It is the episode that I recommend most often. It is the tool that people tell me is most helpful when they use it on their own. So Robin and Hector are going to do it today for us. It's going to be a live example of how to do the state of the union conversation. I think you're going to be intrigued by what they have to offer. I want to make a couple of notes. Number one is Robin's book is coming out. We'll talk about that here. So you should check that out if you're interested in what they have to say today. But also,

Real Love Ready puts on an event every year called the In Bloom Summit. This year, it's April

10th to 12th in Vancouver, British Columbia. If you're in or around the area, and it's before April

10th or 12th, I would encourage you to check it out. Rebecca and I went last year. We had a great time, learned a lot. They have a lot of very cool. This year, Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach are headlining the event. I'm sad to have to miss it. We will be in Japan visiting our daughter. Glenn and Doyle is very cool, but Abby Wombeck is one of my sports heroes. The U.S. Women's National Team is my favorite team and I am sad that I won't be able to hear from and meet Abby Woback if you know her.

Pass this podcast. team is my favorite team and I am sad that I won't be able to hear from and meet Abby Woback

if you know her. Pass this podcast along. If you are Abby Womack, then call me. Let's talk. I want to

talk about relationships. I want to talk about soccer. You should also listen to Marriage Therapy

Radio episode number 186, which I did with the greatest of all time, Kristen Lilly, who is another

one of my heroes. Anyway, I could geek out all day long about this, but I do want to draw your attention to that event. 10th to 12th, 2006 in Vancouver, British Columbia. It's a great time. Robin and her team put on a great event. Today, however, it's just Robin and Hector, and they are telling us about their relationship. We're catching up with them a year later. This is a very cool conversation. Stick around. How are you? I'm okay. I'm doing all right.

Like I got, I got some stuff going on, but I'm figuring out how to do it. That's what I've learned

that life is about. You just got to figure it out as you go.

That is what life is. Yeah. Holy man, eh? The year of the, we're still shedding. It's the year of the snake until the 17th, the February. What happens then? Then what year is it? The fire horse. Get ready.

Okay. What happens in the year of the fire horse? It's right, rapid speed. Think of a horse running, okay? The power of the horse. But here's my problem with all that. Like, how can you have like an entire year that's just one thing? It's like the theme of a whole year. Like, that doesn't make any sense to me. Well, you know what? I never really thought about Chinese astrology until this year. And there's a lot of people talking about it, about the year of the snake, that this was, the year of the snake. Okay. And then the shedding, right? Like, you know how a snake, of course, they shed their skins. Yeah. Well, you guys get to be in Canada and you get to shed stuff like way faster than apparently we get to

shed stuff. I think we still have to endure before we get to shed much. You're in it.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But no, maybe this horse thing will work out and something, something exciting will

transpire. So, oh, guaranteed. Yeah. Guarantee.

Hector, what's happening?

Nah?

I was going to say not much, but actually, all the opposite.

A lot's going on, but all positive and just, yeah.

Good life.

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