The Couple’s Guide to Happiness that Lasts
Your Move with Andy Stanley Podcast
Andy Stanley
4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Expectations are kryptonite to romance. But we all have them, so the question is how do we hold them without letting them become obstacles to our relationships?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Susie here. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to the Your Move Podcast, where we help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets. |
| 0:08.0 | In this episode, you will hear Andy Stanley share practical insights designed to help you improve your relationships in a way |
| 0:14.8 | that helps you live a happier life together. Let's get into it. |
| 0:27.4 | Hi everybody welcome to your move where we help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets I'm Andy Stanley and today I'm gonna tell you |
| 0:31.3 | something that every happy couple knows. |
| 0:34.2 | So if you're part of a couple, if you want to go the distance as a couple, or if you're still |
| 0:38.8 | looking for your person and when you meet them you're hoping for a happily ever after ending, stick around. |
| 0:44.1 | Now, while I'm no marriage or relationship expert, I have been happily married for 36 years. |
| 0:50.0 | Sandra and I have three kids and all three of our kids are married and all three of them would tell you that they are leaning into what they saw modeled in our home, especially what I want to talk about today. |
| 0:59.4 | So while I don't claim to know everything there is to know about a mutually satisfying relationship. |
| 1:04.6 | I know a few things. |
| 1:05.6 | And here's one thing I know for certain. |
| 1:08.1 | If you're married or if you're in a relationship that's moving toward marriage, you and your partner have three things in common. |
| 1:14.6 | You have hopes, dreams, and desires. |
| 1:17.0 | They may not be the identical hopes, dreams, and desires, but you both have hopes, dreams, |
| 1:21.7 | and desires for your relationship, right right now think about it this way |
| 1:24.3 | It's like both of you carry around an invisible box filled with your hope's dreams and desires |
| 1:30.3 | They include what you hope for in the relationship in terms of how it feels, what it behaves like, what your future holds, what you expect your partner to do to ensure that your hope, dreams, and desires are fulfilled, right? The items in your |
| 1:44.2 | box represent your definition of happiness. If I get what I hope for out of this |
| 1:49.0 | relationship, if I get what I desire out of this relationship, I'll be happy, right? |
| 1:54.3 | Our hope streams and desires actually encompass a variety of categories too, like lifestyle, |
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