SC 59 - How To Create Healthy Expectations In Your Relationship

Relationship School Podcast

Jayson Gaddis

Relationships, Relationshippodcast, Sex, Relationshipadvice, Society & Culture, Jaysongaddispodcast, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 981 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

There are two kinds of expectations in a long-term relationship. Knowing the difference can help you sink or swim in your partnership. See if you can get honest about your expectations of yourself and your partner in this episode.

SHOWNOTES

The two kinds of expectations [5:45]
Why laying a trip on someone doesn’t work in a partnership [9:30]
Why trying to force someone to change never works. [11:45]
Monogamy as an example of how to set an expectation. [13:45]
Jayson’s challenge to the listener. [17:15]

Transcript

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0:00.0	Because who wants to be in a relationship with someone who's betraying themselves in service of the relationship.
0:07.0	I don't. the Hey, what's up? Welcome back. Jason Gatis here with The Smart Couple Podcast, episode 59.
0:37.3	This podcast is for you if you're into growth and development,
0:41.1	or if you're into having a great relationship and you want to not die alone and you
0:49.0	want to have a relationship that is to grow
0:55.0	over many, many years.
1:00.0	We assert here that the only way to get that is to grow and develop yourself.
1:07.0	That's the fundamental requirement of a smart couple.
1:11.0	Both people work on themselves.
1:17.2	You cannot and will not have an amazing relationship over time if you're not staring your issues in the face and
1:26.8	taking them to the ground. Can't happen and won't happen. Okay? I 100% guarantee you that.
1:38.0	Feel free to attempt to prove me wrong.
1:47.0	Okay, last week's contest was a giant flop. Not one couple emailed me saying,
1:51.0	yeah, I would love to have a session with you and have it recorded on-air
1:58.0	Jason so that tells me a couple things number one I don't have any couples listening to this that are
2:04.8	into growth and development that are willing and courageous enough to put themselves
2:08.1	out there. That might actually be true because I know I have a lot of
2:11.7	individuals that listen to this podcast.
2:15.0	So that's interesting.
2:18.0	Another possibility is that there's plenty of couples listening but no one really wants to put air their dirty
2:24.9	laundry on the smart couple podcast and have it sort of worked on in front of the
2:30.6	larger community. So both of these if they're true I appreciate and makes
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