How to Create a Relationship That Lasts

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

How can we create relationships that last? On this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson lean on Rick's 35+ years of couples counseling experience to explore how we can build relationships that are loving, healthy, enjoyable, and reliable. This includes learning the structure of most relationship problems, how to make vulnerable communications, and how to stay open to change. Watch the Episode: Prefer watching video? You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 2:15: What issues brought couples into therapy most often? 4:50: The structure of most relationship problems. 12:30: Giving your partner what they need. 15:30: What differentiated couples that improved from those that didn’t? 21:15: Skills that increase the chances of building a good relationship. 21:45: Loving vs. liking. 25:00: Deliberately activating feelings of “liking.” 27:00: Getting “on the side” of the relationship. 31:10: How to make a vulnerable communication. 39:15: Openness to change. 43:40: Three red flags in relationships. 46:00: Practices to deepen your relationship with your partner. 54:30: Recap Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors: From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Find the new CBD+ performance gummies and the whole dosist health line-up today at dosisthealth.com. Use promo code BEINGWELL20 for 20% off your purchase. New Day from Lemonada just premiered on September 15th - listen wherever you get podcasts. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.
0:10.8	If you're new to the podcast, this is where we explore the practical science of lasting
0:15.2	well-being.
0:16.2	And if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:18.6	I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, Rick as a clinical psychologist and a best-selling
0:24.0	author.
0:25.0	And I'm also happy to say that he's my dad, so dad, how are you doing today?
0:28.8	I'm good, and I'm always touched, actually, even though I heard it a lot, by that little thing
0:34.9	you say there.
0:35.9	I mean, I'm really glad you're my son.
0:38.4	Oh, thanks so much, dad.
0:39.8	I really appreciate that.
0:40.8	And yeah, I know it's always offered very earnest life.
0:43.6	Yeah, we're going to talk about relationships today, and I just felt moved somehow to include
0:48.4	that in our relationship.
0:50.1	Yeah, no, and I think that this whole platform that we've built around the podcast has
0:54.2	really given us kind of new opportunities to investigate what our relationship looks
0:59.1	like, maybe particularly as, you know, you've got a common dynamic where you've got the
1:04.3	adults, you've got the parents, then you have the kids, and as the kids start to become
1:08.4	adults themselves, like what happens to that relationship?
1:11.4	We've definitely done episodes of that in the past, and I'm sure that we'll do more
1:15.3	in the future.
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