Welcome to the follow-up.

I'm Dr. Mona, your pediatrician, mom friend, and provider of the Monday parenting pick-me-up

you didn't know you needed. These episodes are like surprise snacks you find in the bottom of

your purse, a small, little smush, but surprisingly satisfying nugget. Today's clip, it's not

about toddler tantrums, unless we're counting the adult kind.

I'm revisiting this conversation with my husband, Gorov, because your relationship with your

partner, if you have one, isn't just background noise in parenting. It's the rhythm that

keeps the whole household moving. We're diving into what keeps us connected, check-ins,

communication, and embracing, not fixing each other's differences,

because real partnership means finding strength in the contrast, in communication, and showing up

even when the day's been a mess. If you've been meaning to reconnect, hit pause on the to-do list

or send that we're still a team text. This episode is for you. Let's get into it.

But what do you think makes our marriage work?

Like, what do you think are the good things that kind of you'll say, you know what,

this is something that helps us? This is something that, you know, helps our communication, things like that.

I think one of the biggest things for you and I, and I mentioned this quite often to you, is that

one person's strengths are the other person's weakness and vice versa.

And so that's very apparent in our marriage, as you know, that there are certain things that I'm

really good at and certain things that I'm not great at. And I'll

give an example to everyone. It's like, you know, organization and being on top of deadlines and

making sure that food meals are scheduled and Ryan's things are scheduled and all that stuff. Like,

that is where you excel at more than anyone. And those are areas in life where I could probably do better.

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