Sorry is what grown-ups do when they're still developmentally little kids. So, Hi and welcome back to the Smart Couple podcast.

Episode 58.

Getting up there. episode 58.

Getting up there.

My goal originally for this podcast was to do it for one year until August of 2016.

We're approaching that now and I'm not stopping at this point, right?

That's the good news. I was going to go, okay I'll do it till August. People like it, cool I'll keep going if they don't like it,

why waste my time with this?

And for me it's been a lot of fun and you seem to be getting a lot of value from it, which I'm psyched about. Thanks for your ears. If you're new here,

welcome. On this podcast we talk about long-term relationship like marriage.

Doesn't have to be marriage, but we're in the conversation around how to do well over many years.

Because anybody, as I talk about anybody can succeed in a relationship

for a few months all of us can fall in love i.e. get infatuated, have sex and have it feel really good because it's really like drugs.

Not all of us can keep going year after year and thrive.

In fact, very few people can do that.

So this is a hyper-nitched podcast where we talk about how to rock it out over many, many years.

That's personally the conversation I'm in with my wife, and currently, after going on nine years married together 13 were

rocking it out and we have challenges and there's tension and contraction and distance and shutting down and you know hurt

feelings and that all happens so we don't have some we're not like on the top of a mountain looking down at everybody saying yeah we got this

figured out it's great you should come up here. It's just turns out that the mountain

we're on top of looks up at another mountain and another

one and another one and it never stops there's the false summit you know if you've ever

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