Plan on the rest of your life having challenges. You've noticed this, right?

Life doesn't typically get easier.

The challenges get bigger, especially if you're on the growth path. the Greetings Earth Links Earth Links

Earth Links, welcome back to another episode of the Relationship School's Smart Couple

Podcast. I'm your host, Jason Gatis, and I am grateful to help you with your relationship life,

specifically your long-term relationship life.

That looks like marriage, monogamy, or being in partnership for someone for decades.

This podcast is all about that conversation. How do we do that well? How do we

succeed and thrive and not burn out or deaden ourselves and become complacent and apathetic.

So we seek to answer those types of questions here

with interviewing lots of relationship teachers, experts, couples,

my wife, and many others, to get down at the bottom of how do we do this well.

Because the quality of a great life is measured by the closest relationships in your life.

And the Harvard study suggests that,

and I'm here to underline that and say, yes, that's true in my own life.

You can be loaded with lots of money or you can be the fittest person on the planet

but if your relationship life sucks and you feel stressed when you come home like you don't even want to be in your own home because that's where your partner is, then you've got problems.

You're not going to be very fulfilled.

So we tackle this here at the Smart Couple Podcast.

You know what's interesting is people talk commonly about divorce rates,

50% is the common number thrown around.

That's debatable depending on the research you look into, but let's call it 50%.

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