How to avoid the pitfalls of a traveling spouse
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2013
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Do you have a spouse who travels? Are both the exit and reentry a challenge? Do you feel appreciated for what you do while your spouse is away, and does your spouse feel appreciated for the hard work involved in work travel? We discuss the importance of validation and communication when your partner travels, and why it’s important to say what you need.
We also discuss the importance of prioritization and how we need to allow our partner to arrive at their own conclusions instead of forcing them to act. Todd recognized how his ego got in the way of a big decision, and he shares why and how he decided to shift.
We also discuss the genius of Louis CK as he talks about his kids, technology, and the importance of sadness. The entire clip can be found here. We also give some practical advice on how to curb our addiction to our phone, technology, ipad, etc written byAdina Kalish Neufeld. The entire article can be read here.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, here we go. |
| 0:09.9 | My name's Todd Adams. |
| 0:10.8 | This is Kathy Adams. |
| 0:11.7 | Welcome back, Zen Parenting Radio, episode number 143, I think. |
| 0:15.9 | So for the newbies, Zen Parenting Radio is a discussion between a spiritual and emotional mom. |
| 0:20.5 | That's you. And a logical and practical dad, That's me. We have three daughters, age five, |
| 0:25.1 | eight, and ten. And our goal is to give you the resources to become a better parent, but more |
| 0:29.4 | importantly, to become a better you. That would be six, eight and ten, my love. Oh, oops. Sorry, |
| 0:34.7 | our daughter turns six this weekend. So here's our topics for the week. |
| 0:38.3 | We're going to talk about if one of you, if you and your partner, if one of them travels a lot, |
| 0:44.5 | we're going to talk a little bit about the adjustment period, both when they're missing |
| 0:47.7 | and then when they get back. |
| 0:49.3 | Yeah, I have so many interesting thoughts about that because I talk to so many moms whose |
| 0:53.8 | husbands travel for work and you travel for work. |
| 0:57.6 | I do. |
| 0:58.1 | So I have much personal experience. |
| 0:59.8 | We're also going to play some clips from a Lewis C.K thing on cocoa.com. |
| 1:04.2 | That's Team Coco. |
| 1:06.0 | That's Conan's. |
| 1:06.8 | It was him on Conan O'Brien talking about feelings. |
| 1:09.2 | Right. |
| 1:09.6 | So I got some clips queued up for that too. |
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