Family Meetings (and Why You Should Do Them)

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Parenting, Kids & Family, Comedy

4.6 • 962 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Does your quality time with your spouse sometimes/always devolve into discussions about finances, kids, or future plans? Here's how focused weekly meetings—both for our partnerships and for our families—can strengthen, deepen, and save the sanity of our relationships. Amy and Margaret discuss: How marriage/family check-ins improve the day-to-day health of relationships Best practices for successful marriage/family check-ins How they tailor their own marriage/family check-ins to work for them Here are links to some of the resources mentioned in the episode: MARRIAGE MEETINGS FOR LASTING LOVE by Marcia Naomi Berger Brett and Kate McKay for Art of Manliness: How and Why to Hold a Weekly Marriage Meeting Julia Ries for Self: Scheduling a Weekly ‘House Meeting’ With My Partner Changed My Damn Life Jo Piazza for Bustle: The HR-ification Of Marriage We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ What Fresh Hell is co-hosted by Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson. mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, cognitive labor, emotional labor, mental load, second shift, family meeting, marriage meeting, family check-in, marriage check-in, relationship check-in, partners, marriage, spouse, relationships, couples Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.9	sleep tonight. If it's a pie, right, how much time do you spend on this? It's always going to be
1:25.7	unbalanced. What fresh hell.
1:28.5	Laughing in the face of motherhood. I have the huge advantage that I am the worst criminal in my home with Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson.
1:36.3	You show up ready to collaborate with this person who loves you. A podcast that solves today's parenting dilemmas so you don't have to.
1:45.5	You are in charge of this.
1:52.9	I have veto power and I want four check-ins about the plan. Hello, everyone, and welcome to what fresh hell laughing in the face of motherhood. This is Margaret. And this is Amy. This week,
1:57.8	we're going to talk about weekly meetings. Do you have them? Why
2:02.9	you have them? Team meetings by which I realized I was always doing the research for this episode.
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