Reduce Your Mental Load and Enjoy Great Sex | Dr. Morgan Cutlip

Rhythms for Life

Rebekah Lyons and Gabe Lyons

Create, Anxiety, Spirituality, Connect, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Life, Rest, Rhythms, Mental Health, Restore

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever feel the weight of an invisible to-do list burdening your relationship? In this illuminating episode, Rebekah and Gabe Lyons welcome Dr. Morgan Cutlip, psychologist and author of "A Better How: Couples Can Tackle the Mental Load for More Fun, Less Resentment, and Great Sex." Dr. Cutlip breaks down how the mental load—that seemingly endless list of tasks, responsibilities, and emotional calculations we carry—affects intimacy and connection in marriage.

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0:00.0	Hey friends, welcome to the Rhythms for Life podcast where each week we talk about resilient rhythms
0:04.7	that help you take charge of your mental, spiritual, physical, and relational health.
0:09.3	This season's conversations come from our best-selling book, The Fight for Us,
0:13.4	overcome what divides to build a marriage that thrives.
0:16.3	So grab your copy, invite your friends, and let's build healthy relationships together.
0:28.3	Welcome back. I'm Rebecca.
0:29.8	And I'm Gabe.
0:30.8	And we hope you are enjoying this marriage series.
0:33.7	Marriage May is here.
0:35.2	Yes.
0:35.3	Maybe you've seen us talking about it on socials, but so many couples are taking very seriously a daily assignment as to how we make sure we're enriching our marriages every day.
0:45.5	And so if you haven't seen that yet, I just want to tell you, go to Rebecca Alliance.com slash Marriage May.
0:50.4	You can download this calendar.
0:51.7	It's very simple.
0:52.6	Hey, guys, if you're listening, this is simple.
0:55.2	Such a good reminder for each of us about the things we should be doing every day to just cultivate
0:59.7	a little bit of love, romance, connection, listening, communication, all the things.
1:04.7	Yeah, and if you haven't grabbed the book yet, go ahead and grab it because it's going to
1:08.3	walk you through some of the key conversations
1:10.8	throughout the book that we're going to help you have this month. And so if you're looking for
1:15.4	some content for a date night or you want to have that 15 minutes a day that we've talked about
1:19.3	on other episodes to have something to converse about, we're going to walk you through that this
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