Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast, where here you get modern, non-boring

relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay

on the same team no matter the challenge that you face. I'm one of your host, Jocelyn Freeman,

and you'll actually be listening to myself and a good friend of ours and colleague, Dr. Morgan Cutlip.

Now, if you've been a listener, you know that we don't bring on guests very often at all,

and that's because we're very discerning about who we allow to kind of speak into your world.

But she is someone that I thoroughly, and we both do, trust her

wisdom and her knowledge. Because here's the thing. Even though we're hitting on a topic that can

bring up some emotion for people, which is the mental load, she is going to talk to you

about this in a way that unites you rather than divides you.

So we'll be going into how the mental load is hurting your marriage attraction and intimate

life. She's got the research on this. And her book, which is coming out within a week of this

episode dropping, is called A Better Share,

How Couples Can Tackle the Mental Load for More Fun, Less Resentment, and Great Sex.

And she can talk about this topic not only because she is a wife of over a decade,

well over a decade, has two kids, she has a PhD in psychology and has an

immense amount of research behind this topic around the mental load and how it affects a

marriage from both a male and female perspective. So this episode and the book is going to give you a lot of insight into how

both partners feel about this topic and being a great team, what you both want in a marriage

to really feel that sense of unity. And again, it impacts not just your connection, not just

your feeling of teamwork, but being attracted to each other and really

having a great intimate life. So there's going to be a lot that we cover in here. Make sure that as

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