Relationship Radio: Marriage, Sex, Limerence & Avoiding Divorce

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! He talks to everyone at the party. Then you get in the car and he goes silent. You ask a question. Nothing. You tell him about your day. Nothing. And you start to wonder if every other woman in that room was prettier, or funnier, or more interesting than you. Here's what I've learned after years of this work. Most men don't go quiet because they st...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! AI can give you brilliant relationship information. It can also give you brilliantly bad advice. And you won't know which one you got until it blows up in your face. Here's a true story. A woman's husband was flying home from a business trip. She wanted to show him how much she loved him. So she asked AI what to do. It gave her a list. She picked o...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Doing nothing feels safe. It isn't. When your marriage starts falling apart, most people freeze. You don't want to make it worse. You don't want the conflict. You don't know what to say. So you wait and hope it settles on its own. It almost never does. You really only have three options when trouble shows up. Do nothing. Get the wrong help. Ge...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! They didn't make a mistake. A mistake is grabbing the wrong bag at baggage claim. A mistake is an accident you didn't choose. What happened to you was a choice. They knew. And calling it a mistake is just a softer word for something that isn't soft at all. So the anger makes sense. The urge to make them feel a fraction of what you're feeling m...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Do cheaters always cheat? You've heard it from your mom. Your best friend. Maybe even a counselor who has never met your spouse. After 30 years of working with marriages in crisis, we can tell you it isn't true. Not for most people. In this video, Dr. Joe Beam breaks down three different kinds of affairs, because the answer to your question changes comp...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Everyone around you is starting to ask the same question. Why are you still trying? Your spouse is checked out. Maybe they've stopped sleeping in the same bed. Maybe they've moved out completely. Maybe there's someone else. And nothing you've tried has moved the needle even an inch. So the people who love you start looking at you sideways. The...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Most marriage advice is recycled fluff. This is not. I sat down with Dr. John Gottman, the man who has spent 40+ years studying what actually makes marriages work and what destroys them. Not opinions. Not theories. Exposed-to-thousands-of-couples-in-a-research-lab findings. And what he told me? Some of it will surprise you. The couples who last, the "masters...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! You leave the comments. I read them. This week I'm going straight into the ones that made me stop scrolling. The bold ones. The angry ones. The ones that questioned everything I teach. A woman still carrying a crush from 30 years ago, wondering why it still hurts. A commenter convinced that saving a marriage means forcing two miserable people to stay togethe...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! You're convinced nobody has ever felt what you're feeling right now. I understand why. But I've sat with hundreds of people who felt the exact same thing. The obsessive pull toward someone who isn't your spouse.  The daydreaming that swallows most of your day.  The spiral when they don't text back fast enough.  The certainty that this one...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! You made a commitment. But you're not sure you'd make it again. That's where a lot of people are. And in this episode, I answer their questions honestly. One woman has been married 41 years. She loves her husband. She's just never been in love with him. She's asking if it's too late, or if this whole thing was a 41-year mistake. Anot...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! What to do in the first 72 hours after your marriage crisis: Watch Here 👉 https://bit.ly/4wgrNiq Most conversations with your spouse aren't going anywhere. They're stale. They're tense. Or they've stopped happening altogether. Every time you try to talk, it turns into the same fight. You go in circles. And somehow you land worse than where yo...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Everyone told Scott to walk away. The affair. The lies. The cold distance that built for months. On paper, this was the marriage other people would tell you to end and not feel bad about it. He didn't walk away. Not because he was naive. Not because he excused anything. Because he still loved his wife, and he could not live with never having tried. In this c...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! You think it's a sex problem. Most of the time, it isn't. When the spark is gone and one of you is always "too tired," the instinct is to fix the bedroom. Buy something. Try harder. Schedule it. But the bedroom is almost never where the problem started. Up to a third of couples are living in what researchers call low-sex or no-sex marriages. Y...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Watch the video about our 7 step process here: https://bit.ly/3QfOjsj He sent me a message. He said he wants to work on his mistakes. He wants to move forward. He doesn't want our kid raised in a divided home. She read it and printed divorce papers. Her question. Is that even communication? Or is he just asking me to forget everything that happened? Here&apo...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Your spouse wants to leave. Okay. Let them. But here's what nobody tells you. Even if they walk out that door, there's still one person you're left with. You. So you might as well become someone you actually like living with. And here's the secret most people miss. That's also the one thing most likely to bring your spouse back. In this v...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Click here to get the Save My Marriage Course or learn about out Couples Workshops: https://bit.ly/4vzEaps You can't control whether your spouse fights for the marriage. You can only control whether you do. That's the hardest part of saving a marriage alone. You're pouring everything in while they've checked out, filed, or already walked away....

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Click here to watch part 2! https://bit.ly/4dLDJRu Asking your spouse to work on the marriage isn't working. Because they don't want to work on the marriage. That's the whole problem. Stop asking. Nobody wants more counseling. Nobody wants another conversation about "us." Nobody wants to be handed a printout of what's wrong with them...

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Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Marriage advice isn't dead. Bad marriage advice is dead. Nobody wants to "just give it time." Nobody wants to be told to punish their spouse into coming back. Nobody wants a counselor telling them to have a revenge affair to "even the score." (Yes, real counselors actually say that.) You want your marriage back. With your dignity intact....

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Book a call with someone on our team → https://bit.ly/4udufow ---------------------------------------------------------------- Your marriage didn't fall apart overnight. It won't be saved overnight either. But it can be saved. Most people in a marriage crisis do the wrong things. Not because they're bad people, but because they're in pain. The...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Take our free marriage crisis assessment → https://bit.ly/4mKItuy ------------------------------------------------------------ If your spouse is leaving, your instinct is to stop them. Block the exit. Monitor their phone. Guilt them into staying. That doesn't work. In this video, Marriage Helper coach Nathan shares a story about his daughter Valerie, and how...

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Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Get Instant Access To The Marriage Crisis Assessment Here → https://bit.ly/4eee45H Most people whose spouse cheated are asking the wrong question: "Why did they do it?" The better question right now is: "What are they feeling now that it's over?" In this video, Marriage Helper breaks down the three emotional states a cheating spouse typic...