Do you constantly feel misunderstood by your spouse? As if you two just can't seem to get on the same page like you used to?

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• Why your husband doesn't get it
• What two things to focus on during conflict
• A tip on what to share with your husband to have more productive conversations
  

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Are you sick of nagging? Women hate doing it and our spouses hate hearing it, so why do we do it?

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• Why women nag at their husbands
• What causes us to nag
• The impact nagging has on your relationship
• What you can do to stop nagging

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Do you ever feel like your husband just doesn't know how to show you love in a way where you actually FEEL loved?

There's a reason for that!

What you need to feel loved may not be what he needs to feel loved.

 In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I share:

- Why you may not be feeling loved and appreciated by your husband

- What the 5 love languages are

- Ideas for each love language to connect with your spouse

- BONUS: Inspiration for quality time with your husband as a busy mom

To take the 5 love languages quiz, visit here:

https://5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/love-language

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Did you know that 80% of women complain about not getting enough support from their husbands?

 In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I share:

• 4 types of support you need in your marriage
• Examples of each type of support
• Why you need each type
• What to do if you aren't getting the support you need

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How often have you gotten the advice to not go to bed angry once you got married?

 In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I share:

• Why the age old advice "never go to bed angry" exists
• The pros and cons of not going to bed angry
• What to do if you're still angry at bedtime

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Control can make us feel safe, especially for those who identify with being a Type A go getting woman. But have you started noticing how your need for control has been affecting your marriage?

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I share:

• How to grow awareness of where control shows up for you
• Ways to stop micromanaging and be a resource for your partner instead
• How you can get on the same page with your vision for how you want life to be like

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This blog post was inspired by a post that I made inside of my Facebook group, if you're not in there already go in there. It's called Marriage & Motherhood. In that post, I asked the ladies, what are you craving most in your marriage right now? About 80% of them said quality time. I want to dive into that a little bit about why that tends to be the most common answer other than better communication when it comes to your marriage after having kids. 

When we have kids, not only do we birth a child, we as women go through a huge transformation.

We become mothers the second that we're pregnant, we care about the baby, and their well-being and do all the things that we need to do to make sure that they’re healthy. After they’re born, you now have tunnel vision, all you can do is focus on how to support this baby developmentally, physically, feeding them, changing their diapers, and mentally stimulating them. In the process, we put our marriage on the back burner. It's not a consciou...

How present you are has a large impact on your life and your marriage

Before I started working on myself, it was really hard to be present. Now, I’m able to be in the moment and soak up everything that is there to experience. Even for something as simple as going on a walk and noticing how green the leaves are, noticing how the sun feels on your skin, how the wind feels, the flowers that you walk past, and just being there. Not just focusing on your destination and just walking.

When you’re not present with your partner, you're on your phone or maybe you're checked out and you're not really with them at that moment. Same with your kids, you may be sitting with them and they're playing, but you’re somewhere else. Your body is there, but your mind and your energy are not there. That's how I know when I'm not present. When I feel like I'm in a hurry all the time. I'm irritable, focusing on productivity. What's on my to-do list?

What I noticed is that when I'm not present, I'm just...

Conflict is actually good for your marriage.

I think a lot of you will probably agree with me on this, in that Disney movies, and all those fairy tales really ruined us in terms of how we define a happy marriage. Growing up, all the way up until probably the last five, or six years. My idea of a happy marriage did not involve conflict. It didn't involve arguments. I thought that if you argued that meant that your relationship was not healthy. Lo and behold, in my experience of conflict in my marriage earlier on and in my past relationships, there were a lot of conflicts. Anytime I got upset or annoyed or something didn't meet my needs, or I felt disappointed in some sense. There was conflict. That led to a lot of different beliefs from me, in my head, my lovely mind. It created a lot of drama for me. Beliefs, like, “Oh, I'll never find someone who fully gets me.” It was just a lot of back and forth a lot of conflicting beliefs around a conflict in relationships, about myself abou...

Who is responsible for your happiness?

I don't know about you, but I thought whoever I was dating was responsible for my happiness. In fact, I used to pride myself in being this super chill, low-maintenance kind of girlfriend or partner, and when anniversaries roll around, or any kind of thing to celebrate, Valentine's day anniversary, birthdays, you name it, I would get upset. I would get upset for not having my expectations met. Expectations that I never shared, by the way, because I wanted to be this other version of a person. That was not true to who I was and what I wanted. I, for some reason, would judge people who needed this. Something that shows that that person was a big deal. I thought that if I wasn't like that, I was better, but I wasn't being honest with myself. 

I would get upset because they wouldn't do anything. Or they would just, get me a card, and then we go out to dinner. I would have this inner conflict inside, where I'm like, “Well, I'm not happy with what...