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Relationship Advice

When To Bring Up Hard Things

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality

4.21.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Bringing up hard things in relationships is less about avoiding conflict and more about when and how you do it. In this episode, the hosts explore why timing, emotional state, and environment play a crucial role in whether a tough conversation connects or causes more disconnection.  In this episode, we talk about relationship topics like  - Timing Matters - Check emotional, mental, and environment readiness - The HALT acronym - Practicing “priming” - Don’t bring things up in the moment you’re upset Give Me Discounts! Skylight - Visit skylightcal.com/IDO for $30 off your 15 inch calendar.  Function - 160+ Lab Tests for $365 to anyone who signs up between July 7th and July 11th. Learn more & get started at www.functionhealth.com/IDO Prolon - Visit ProlonLife.com/IDO to claim your 15% discount and your bonus gift. PXG - Visit PXGApparel.com/IDO or use promo code: PODAPP-IDO to save 10% off your Spring/Summer 2025 Collection order. Amazfit - Visit www.amazfit.com/IDO to get 10% off Spark My Relationship Course: Get $100 off our online course. Visit SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock for our special offer just for our I Do Podcast listeners! If you love this episode (and our podcast!), would you mind giving us a review in iTunes? It would mean the world to us and we promise it only takes a minute. Many thanks in advance! – Colter, Cayla, & Lauren Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Rescue Remedy Night, for when the thought spiral starts right as your head hits the pillow.

0:06.0

You went from one meme to your ex's holiday photos to Googling,

0:10.0

What time do owls sleep?

0:13.0

And now you're wide awake.

0:15.0

When overthinking takes over, rescue night helps ease your mind naturally, so sleep can take over instead.

0:22.6

Wind down, switch off and reach for Rescue Night.

0:26.6

Available at Boots. Hello and welcome to relationship advice. My name is Koltar Bloxum and I am sitting here with two of my close friends, Kayla Bozovich and Lauren Mo Carrey.

0:56.6

The three of us are licensed professional counselors, and we are here to bring you all things

1:03.2

relationships and how to connect better with others.

1:06.5

And I'm going to tell you guys something right now.

1:08.6

The one thing we want you to take away from this podcast, not just this episode, but just kind of the entire journey with us, is that the most

1:16.3

important part about connecting with someone else is connecting with yourself first. You cannot connect

1:23.7

to somebody else more than you can connect to yourself. And so we take this kind of

1:28.5

multifaceted approach at how we improve our relationships. We look at, okay, how do I interact

1:34.2

better with this person? What tools do I need to implement in my life? And then also, how am I

1:40.3

taking care of myself? And so we want you to be able to take both pieces away.

1:45.5

This is just as much about how do I interact with myself as it is about how do I interact with other people.

1:52.7

And today we've got a topic that I am super excited for us to dive into,

1:57.6

which is the timing of when we bring up hard things. I find myself struggling with

2:03.2

this one so often coming home. Kids are yelling and I'm like, hmm, now's a good time to bring

2:10.6

up that really hard thing. Nope, not a good time. There's probably better times. And then I find

2:16.8

myself asking like, I know there was

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