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parents nationwide. Welcome to the mom room podcast. My name is Renee Rina and I am definitely the mom friend you have always wanted.

Welcome to Tuesday's episode. It is, well, this is Renee speaking. Welcome to my podcast. I don't know why I was going to say this is Renee. Like,

duh. Anyways, this is such a great episode. Two episodes in a row about relationships. This one is

specifically about marital communication skills. Kelly Janes is a licensed marriage and family therapist.

And we get into some lovely topics here. So we chat about

mostly her, because she's the professional, fight or flight response. So why we need to get out

of a fight or flight response in order to have a productive conversation with our partner. Also,

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