Terry Gaspard: Successful Committed Relationships—What It Takes

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Terry Gaspard is a licensed couples therapist, college professor, and the coauthor of Daughters of Divorce. She has teamed with Sounds True to publish The Remarriage Manual: How to Make Everything Work Better the Second Time Around. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Terry about the sometimes surprising factors that go into a healthy long-term relationship. Citing years of experience counseling couples, Terry explains that physical chemistry is less important to the life span of a relationship than you might think. Tami and Terry explore how to healthily navigate relationship conflict and the steps you can take to ensure open communication of emotional needs. They talk about healing after a relationship ends and how to evaluate whether you're ready to enter another long-term partnership. Finally, Terry and Tami discuss the stress of being a stepparent and the resilience needed to weather fresh relationship challenges. (64 minutes)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True.
0:04.0	My name is Tammy Simon. I'm the founder of Sounds True.
0:08.0	And I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation.
0:12.0	The Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making transformational education widely available. We want everyone to have access to
0:26.8	transformational tools such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:39.3	The Sounds True Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to communities
0:46.8	in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing countries.
0:54.0	If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter,
0:58.4	please visit sounds true foundation.org. You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
1:10.0	Today my guest is Terry Gaspard.
1:13.1	Terry is a licensed therapist, college instructor,
1:16.7	and non-fiction author,
1:18.6	specializing in divorce, remarriage,
1:21.8	women's issues, children, and relationships.
1:25.0	She's a regular contributor to the Gottman Institute blog,
1:29.0	Huffington Post Divorce, The Good Men Project, and Divorced Moms.com.
1:35.0	Terry co-authored the book Daughters of Divorce with her daughter Tracy,
1:41.0	and with sounds true, she's written a new book called the
1:45.3	remarriage manual how to make everything work better the second time around in my
1:51.3	conversation with Terry we talked about the hundreds of interviews she's done with couples and what she's learned about the skills that are required to make committed relationships work.
2:06.3	And she shares with us the number one skill, which might not be what you expect. It has to do with the power of repair.
2:16.7	Here's my conversation with Terry Gaspart.
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