The Relational Repair Podcast

What if the goal of conflict wasn't to win, but to find your way back to each other? In this episode of Perfectly Imperfect Love: The Relational Repair Podcast , Dr. Hazel-Grace sits down with longtime sexuality and relationship educators Lori Handlers and Michael Gibson for an intimate, funny, and refreshingly unpolished look inside their 11-year relationship. They talk about the conflicts t...

Episode description What if repairing a relationship doesn’t mean getting back together? Monica and Aaron were romantic partners for seven years within a polyamorous relationship and built a deeply intertwined life together. But after repeated ruptures around broken agreements, their romantic relationship came to a painful and messy end.  What happened next is what makes their story so powerful. R...

What happens when you know the relationship tools, teach the relationship tools, practice the relationship tools… and still lose your shit? In this episode of The Relational Repair Podcast , Dr. Hazel-Grace Yates sits down with Chris and Christopher, a couple approaching ten years together who have spent years developing their relational skills. And yet, like the rest of us, they still get trigger...

In this special episode, Hazel-Grace steps into the guest seat, with Sasha Love as interviewer, to share a vulnerable and complex rupture from 2022 with Spencer Jacobson. What began as deep distrust evolved into something unexpected. Through a series of REPAIR conversations, the relationship shifted from disconnection to a genuine desire to collaborate. In July 2026, Hazel-Grace will be facilitati...

“I Don’t Have a Tone”: How This Couple Turned an Old Pattern Into Deeper Connection Episode Description: What happens when the thing hurting your partner is something you don’t even realize you’re doing? In this episode of Perfectly Imperfect: The Relational Repair Podcast , Dr. Hazel-Grace Yates sits down with Kiki and John, partners of ten years, for an intimate look at what repair actually look...

The Fight That Changed Our Marriage Episode Description What happens when the conversation that could end your relationship becomes the one that transforms it? In this deeply honest conversation, relationship educators Rono and Sierra share the pivotal rupture that shaped their 15-year marriage. After a painful conflict, Rono confessed, "I think I need to sleep with other women." Rather...

In this special episode, Hazel-Grace steps into the guest seat, with Sasha Love as interviewer, to share a vulnerable and complex rupture from 2022 with Spencer Jacobson. What began as deep distrust evolved into something unexpected. Through a series of REPAIR conversations, the relationship shifted from disconnection to a genuine desire to collaborate. In July 2026, Hazel-Grace will be facilitati...