Have you ever noticed that when you get the happy ending, there's a new beginning that's challenging? So, Hey and welcome back to the smart couple everybody what's up. How's the temperature in your relationship in this moment? Is it steamy, hot, sexy,

aggravating, frustrating, disconnected, hurtful, distant, juicy, it's amazing what we can go through, right, in a long-term relationship.

All of that and more.

Here at the smart couple, I do my best to provide you with practical tools that actually work because you never learn this stuff.

And you're the kind of person that's awesome because you're finally learning this stuff, right?

So thanks for that. Thanks for your support, your reviews, your subscription, your downloads.

It helps us reach more and more people. I mean imagine a world

or a neighborhood or a community or a school where people were just more

relationally literate, not just emotionally literate, that's not enough.

Relationally literate. They could connect, validate,

understand each other, listen without interrupting. They could put themselves in

your shoes and you could build bridges instead of building walls. Powerful, right?

That's my mission in life is to build bridges through relationship and build self-awareness through relationship

because self-awareness leads to more freedom in your life.

The most empowered people I know are the most self-aware, period.

In this episode, period. have a fantasy again, I'm the fantasy buster, a fantasy about peaceful relationships.

People even sell you peaceful relationships.

So I'm just gonna play with that for a minute and assume that you want a peaceful relationship

like everybody else, even though that's impossible.

And in this episode I talk about how to get one, okay?

And then I'm gonna be realistic.

I'm gonna hit you over the head with some challenge

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