Episode 565: Suzette Halterman, Mixed-Faith Marriages

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

My friend Suzette Ward Halterman (relationship and couples coach specializing in LDS mixed-faith marriages) joins us to talk about how to keep marriages and families strong and together when different perspectives and beliefs enter the relationship. Suzette shares how those differences can be a good thing as it deepens emotional connection to create a better relationship. If you are in relationships which started out with sameness, but now have differences—please listen to this podcast. Suzette (who has a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy) has tools to help you. And if you want to help others, please listen to this podcast. I learned much listening to Suzette and believe you will find nuggets in the podcast to help you. Thank you Suzette for being on the podast and your good work. You can find Suzette on Instagram @suzettehalterman and at suzettehaltermancoaching.com ** Please Check Out My New Book called "Listen, Learn and Love: Improving Latter-day Saint Culture" Chapter 10 is on Ministering to those with questions **

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.1	My guest on today's podcast is my new friend joining us via Zoom, Suzette Halterman.
0:15.0	Welcome to the podcast, Suzette.
0:17.2	Hi, Richard. Thanks for having me.
0:19.6	Susette, like a lot of my guests, reach out to me.
0:23.3	Just proactively feel impressed that the things that they could share would be helpful for listeners.
0:28.3	And I'm glad when people reach out.
0:31.5	Let me just share a few paragraphs from Suzette's email to me of about a month ago.
0:41.1	I am a coach that specializes in coaching couples and LDS mixed faith marriages or other situations where the big differences are threatening
0:46.7	the stability of the relationship. I am a firm believer that differences can deepen emotional
0:53.1	connection and create better relationship.
0:56.3	Now, that's worth pausing and just talking for an hour.
1:00.1	That's a great statement.
1:02.0	However, in LDS culture, we often develop a narrative that says otherwise.
1:06.7	So when couples come up against differences, different perspectives around, for example,
1:11.4	LGBTQ, faith differences or different perceptions of how to raise children, it can really rock
1:17.5	the relationship and cause a lot of anxiety and disconnection.
1:22.6	My personal mission is to help couples unlearn those harmful narratives around differences and learn how to
1:29.6	navigate their different perspectives and belief so they can build more connection and thrive
1:34.7	together. So listeners, if you are in a relationship where there's differences and maybe you
1:41.0	started out where there were no differences and now there's differences and we I hope this podcast and the things Suzette shares will be helpful. If you also have
1:50.8	people that you care about in your circle that are different than you or you're trying to
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