Podcast Episodes

Distraction or Traction?

Episode 576

What gets in the way of you getting traction in your efforts to save your marriage? These days, there is one very substantial reason... one thing that keeps you (and many others) from making progres…

Published on 10 hours ago

The Zombie Marriage

Episode 575

Is your marriage infected by the "zombie virus?"  Do you find your relationship to be the "walking dead?"  Are emotions lost and connections missing?  Do you and your spouse respond to each other wit…

Published on 6 days, 11 hours ago

How to Save Your Marriage When You Hate Your Spouse

A listener had a question... and it isn't the first time I've heard it.  How DO you save your marriage when you feel hate for your spouse?  That does seem impossible to get beyond, doesn't it? I hav…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Can AI Save Your Marriage... Or End It??

Episode 573

Are you an AI user?  Do you find yourself chatting with AI about things in your life? How about regarding your marriage?? If you are using AI as a resource to save your marriage, I have one suggest…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Myths of Saving Your Marriage

Episode 572

Do you ever start on some new habit you heard about, maybe about the best diet or exercise, only to find that it isn’t true later on?  And have you ever discovered it was actually even worse for you?…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Affairs and Their Aftermath

Episode 571

Question:  does an affair cause marital problems or do marital problems cause affairs? Answer:  YES. Longer answer:  for the majority of affairs, weak points in the marriage create a vulnerability …

Published on 1 month ago

Why You're Fighting... and What to Do

Episode 570

Have you found yourself in the middle of an argument, toe-to-toe with your spouse, with that little part of your brain saying, "why am I even arguing over this?  It doesn't matter"? I ask, because I…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Feeling Stuck?? No Closer??

Episode 569

What do you do when your spouse has shifted back toward you… some… but is still distant?  More distant than you would like? Do you have to just accept it, accept the lack of intimacy and connection?…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Getting Better or Getting Bitter

Episode 568

I often watch people move toward one of two possibilities when a marriage is in trouble:  Getting Better or Getting Bitter.  One letter difference, but what a difference in destination. One leads a …

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Getting Your Spouse to Agree?? Dangerous!

Episode 567

I know. You want to convince your spouse to see things your way.  So, you set out to "get" your spouse to agree with you. ...And you have now begun walking down a very dangerous path. (I bet you di…

Published on 2 months ago