SC 50 - How & Why My Wife And I Chose Marriage

The Jayson Gaddis Podcast

Jayson Gaddis

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.7 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I bring on my better half, my wife to rock it out with me. We had fun exploring the early stages of our relationship and what had us “choose” each other. There are some funny and not so funny shares in this one. I’m grateful Ellen is joining us here and here’s to more to come from the two of us.

SHOWNOTES

How did Jayson and Ellen first meet? [9:07]
What you must learn about your partner before you decide to spend your life together. [14:30]
What had Ellen ask Jayson out? [15:05]
Shitty advice Jayson got from a therapist and an astrologer. [18:45]
How did Jayson overcome his “grass is always greener” pattern? [24:40]
One of Jayson’s best accomplishments of his life. [28:00]
The simple yet powerful distinction that Ellen did that allowed Jayson to choose to commit. [30:15]
How do you know if your partner is “The One”? [33:45]
A huge thing that must happen before you should even consider marriage. [35:00]
Jayson’s challenge to the listener, both for those in a relationship and single. [43:15]

Transcript

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0:00.0	I really count on you
0:03.0	There was still the sense of ambivalence that like I couldn't really count on you fully yet So, Hey, what's up?
0:23.0	Jason got us back with the smart couple. How are you? Smart folk?
0:38.0	Intelligence, let's just talk about intelligence for a minute. Intelligence in the context of this podcast
0:44.8	is really just awareness.
0:48.8	You can only be aware of what you're aware of. And people who grow and develop themselves continually
0:56.2	gain self-awareness which most of the time if you're on it will lead to better choices and a more empowered life.
1:11.0	However, some people use self-awareness as a way to go in circles in an eddy in the shame swamp.
1:18.0	That's one way to use self-awareness.
1:21.0	But I would argue that those people are stuck and you're not becoming increasingly aware of yourself.
1:27.0	So the smart couple and the smart person really is very self-aware. We're not talking about book smart here.
1:36.4	We're talking about, or being well read, we're talking about being self-aware. And it was in this vein of gaining self-awareness that I could finally meet someone like my incredible
1:51.2	wife, my lover, my friend, my companion on this journey. I could not have
2:00.5	ever met her had I not been self-aware. I also would have never met her had I not had
2:07.0	the injuries and challenges I had in my childhood. I would have met someone else. So that puts me in contact with being
2:17.1	grateful for how I grew up and it's taken a lot of work to get there and man imagining life without Ellen my partner
2:30.0	is it's I can't even it's mind-boggling I can't even, it's mind-boggling, I can't really think of my life without her.
2:37.0	My life is simply way more rich with her in it.
2:42.0	And I'm very psyched to bring her on the show.
2:47.0	Caboome.
2:48.0	She is going to join us on this episode and ideally more Ellen and I geek out a lot on relationship.
2:59.3	We'll lay in bed at night and talk for hours or we'll stand in the kitchen after the kids go down and
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