Finding Your Family’s Rhythm
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2015
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
When a spouse travels or works long hours, it’s hard to find a consistent family rhythm. And when an often-absent spouse is home for a day or two, it can throw off the daily rhythm and cause friction. How can we acknowledge and discuss this openly without offending each other? Cathy and Todd share their experience with this challenging topic, and demonstrate how this is relevant to all of our relationships.
If this episode resonates with you, you may enjoy a previous podcast titled How to avoid the pitfalls of a traveling spouse
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| 0:00.0 | do do do do to do here we go my name's todd adams this is kathy adams welcome back to another |
| 0:08.9 | episode of zen parenting radio this is episode number 246 the zen parenting radio uh we discuss |
| 0:16.7 | transformational wisdom everyday challenges in pop culture to encourage laughter, self-awareness, |
| 0:22.7 | and empathy. |
| 0:25.9 | Our motto is the best predictor of a child's will-being as a parent's self-understanding. |
| 0:30.9 | And on today's show, we are going to talk about something we talked about a long time ago, |
| 0:35.6 | but we think it bears repeating. |
| 0:38.4 | And it's about when you have a traveling spouse, whether it be for vacation or for work, |
| 0:45.3 | the reentry period. |
| 0:47.2 | Or if you have a spouse who works a lot and then they are home. |
| 0:53.2 | Right. |
| 0:53.3 | Because here's the thing. |
| 0:54.6 | I actually was just, I did not read the article, so I have to be honest, but I saw an article |
| 0:59.1 | yesterday through social networking and the title of it is why it's harder when my husband |
| 1:05.8 | is at home with us. |
| 1:07.8 | And even though I did not read her reasoning, I can probably, because I've talked to so many |
| 1:12.8 | moms and, you know, had my own experiences, I could probably guess what she would say. And that's |
| 1:18.8 | what we're going to talk about. So it's Friday, which means this is a no partner show. |
| 1:31.4 | So just in case anybody owns a business out there and they want to partner with us, |
| 1:33.8 | we have some open slots and helping us partner. |
| 1:34.6 | Right, sweetie? |
| 1:37.9 | Well, not only do we have partnership opportunities for the show, |
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