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Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Relationship Theory. I'm your co-host, Tom Billu,

and I am here with my beautiful wife who had a very lovely weekend and especially evening with

last night. Lisa,

what is up?

Hello, baby. How are we doing? Good. How are you? Yeah, very well. Thank you. And you have a topic. Oh, do we have any shoutouts or anything that we're supposed to be doing? So first of all, by the way, thank you guys for showing up to the live feed. and we don't have a great question for you this morning,

like a simple question, but we do want engagement in the feed. So drop in a hello, say hi to somebody else in the comments, say what is up? All that good stuff is very, very helpful. And to everybody that answered whether they were in a relationship or not, last week, thank you guys so much. It was actually fun to read through those comments. And there were a lot of people, not a lot, but there were enough people that had had a high school relationship or knew somebody that had been in a very long-term relationship with somebody since high school. That, I won't say it gave me pause because I want a much larger data sample, but it was cool to see that there are people that have made it work. I just thought of a question that's actually quite interesting. Break it down. If you're in a relationship, what year in that, let's say you've been together for two years, what year has been the most difficult so far? All right. Like year one, year three, year ten. Yeah, exactly. Because I'm really curious to know, like, do people find more trouble in a relationship at the beginning because they're still trying to discover each other or later on because you have an expectation and things change over time? That is a very interesting question. Yeah. You're chuffed with with you i am kind of chuffed yeah that was last

minute thought nice it's good stuff um all right so yeah um wanted to talk to you today actually so

we had a question which actually spun the idea um let me find it um okay um what do you this is the actual question or this is the topic? So it's the topic really. So basically it was based on communication

techniques. Okay. And what communication techniques do we use that we find the most effective? And we actually

have a great example that happened recently where I think that it actually took

our relationship to the next level because we really kind of tried something new and ended up

I think coming out pretty good.

Nice.

So do you want to explain it?

Well, the way, so I know what you're talking about, but the way that you phrased it,

I actually want to make sure that you're

talking about when we took you off the pill. Correct. Yeah. So that was a, it's interesting how

like code words and things like that, like really matter to make sure that I understand what you're

talking about. So in trying to solve Lisa's microbiome issues, which, oh, man, it is a very complicated

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