Welcome guys and gals to The Man Talk Show. I'm Connor Beaton. And today we're going to dive into the

relationship checkup, the relationship check in the marriage maintenance. I tried to come up with as

many names of that as possible. So a lot of my clients have been asking recently, how do I

maintain a real depth of connection with my partner? How do I make sure that

we're on the same page consistently in the chaos of our life, right? We both have businesses.

We both have professional careers. We're both really busy. The kids, you know, the kids go to

sports and making the kids lunches and, you know, just the insanity of life.

And so a lot of people are trying to figure out how do we stay connected?

Well, I and not only I, lots of other people have created different ways of checking in

and creating maintenance for ourselves.

But I've created a little bit of a program here to help all of you

be able to sit down and do this. So I encourage you to listen to this on your own and listen to

it with your partner. Actually do this together, listen to this episode together. Not only that,

but we need to be able to first understand the importance of this. So step number one, whether it's you that's deciding to do this or your partner

deciding to do this, step number one is to discuss the importance and the benefits with

your partner so that you can both agree to do it on a regular basis and actually put it

in the calendar.

Let your partner know why you want to do this

check-in and the importance that your partner actually plays in this check-in, in this sort of

marriage maintenance. Now, I want to just say, before I move on any further, that oftentimes

we, you know, we look at maintenance as something that we want to just say before I move on any further, that oftentimes we, you know, we look at maintenance

as something that that we want to avoid. Now, I don't know if you're like this, but I, I know for

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