Communication can help you build your marriage up to be connected, strong, and resilient, but only when you've learned how to communicate with the purpose of connection and building intimacy through communication.

Without intimacy, communication can feel pretty lonely in a relationship.

When all you talk about is logistics and responsibility, communication can feel empty and transactional.

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

- what it means to communicate to connect
- two questions my husband and I asked each other to nurture our connection

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So many couples have the same experience after becoming parents. They grow apart, argue more often, and they forget how to have fun together.  The common thing to do is to start pointing the finger at your husband and see what they're doing wrong. This is where most couples go wrong when trying to turn their marriage around.

Have you ever stopped to question whether what you believe is normal in a marriage is actually only common, instead of healthy?

Truth is, our parents' marriage and the marriages of those we have surrounded ourselves with make up what we believe to be normal in marriage.

So if arguing was the only way conflict was ever resolved, you might believe that every couple argues all the time - when this isn't true at all. A lot of couples argue, but there are better ways to navigate conflict than arguing.

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

• The most common experience of marriage after kids
• Normal/common vs Healthy
• Outdated beliefs on marriage

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Have you ever noticed how talking about normal day to day stuff, it's super easy to be respectful?

But during conflict, it's much much harder? Like you become an entirely different person?

Well, respect is the foundation of a happy and successful marriage and if you can learn how to maintain that even during conflict, arguments can start go a lot smoother for you.

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

• The purpose of conflict
• What respect does and doesn't look like
• Why it's challenging to stay respectful during conflict
• The one thing you can do to make your arguments more respectful

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Do you often feel resentful towards your husband because it seems like you do SO much where you feel like you can't ever shut your brain off and you feel burned out while your husband seems to have time to go to the gym, watch his sports, and see his friends?

If you have been realizing you need to practice more self care but haven't figured out where to find the time, tune into this episode.

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

• What the invisible load of motherhood is
• Why you should stop assuming your spouse knows what you need
• Why communicating is so important so that you can feel supported
• What happens when you fail to communicate

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For more resources on how to have a happy and successful marriage, head on over to www.michellepurta.com and subscribe!

If you feel like fights with your husband always end painfully and all you want is to be able to get through arguments faster, more effectively, and actually be able to come up with resolutions that work for both of you, it could be because one or both of you are having trouble responding rather than reacting.

When you react, it's because you have your guard up which can make it challenging to say what you mean and do things that will bring you two closer and embody the qualities of a couple who love and support each other because you're more focused on protecting your heart.

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

• What's going on when you're feeling emotionally overwhelmed during arguments with your husband
• What it looks like when your nervous system is dysregulated
• How feeling dysregulated impacts your marriage
• The Embodied Wife and The F.E.E.L. Method

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Do you ever wonder if your BIG emotions are causing a lot of issues in your marriage?

Have you been told that you’re too sensitive, over-reacting, too much, or a personal fave… that you’re crazy?

Emotions can be so easily misunderstood, including yourself.

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

• What emotions are
• What purpose emotions serve
• How emotions impact relationships 

Listen here and remember to subscribe, leave a review, and share it if you loved this episode! 

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Parenting is hard enough, what if you have different parenting styles than your husband?

That can make things feel exponentially harder when both of you feel like you're undoing what the other's trying to do.

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I interviewed Danielle Bettmann of Parenting Wholeheartedly.

Positive-Discipline certified parenting coach, Danielle Bettmann, empowers parents to crack the code of their strong-willed child's personality, meet their deepest core needs to improve their behavior, and find new levels of patience. An early childhood educator, certified teacher and home visitor, Danielle now equips parents from all over over Zoom! Host of the well-loved podcast, Failing Motherhood, she's passionate about eliminating shame from parents' vocabulary, reminding them they are the parent their kids need. She is also a mom to two daughters, wife of 13 years to her high-school sweetheart, and an avid fan of sunshine and coffee.

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Every marriage experiences conflict but have you ever wondered why certain couples' conflict experience calm conversations and others seem like their conflict is more like a world war?

Conflict is an essential part of your marriage and can be used to connect deeper with your husband, but only if dealt with in a healthy way.

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

• Why we experience conflict
• How our approach to conflict impacts marriage
• The two ways people deal with conflict

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Have you noticed you and your husband argue a lot more ever since you became parents?

What used to be fun and light, now feels heavy and hard.

Most people grow up believing that anger is something to avoid feeling because it's bad and that we should be happy instead.

Perhaps you've viewed anger as a toxic emotion that has no place in a healthy marriage.

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

• Whether anger is toxic for your marriage
• What anger can drive you to do
• Where couples go wrong with anger

Listen here and remember to subscribe, leave a review, and share it if you loved this episode! 

For more resources on how to have a happy and successful marriage, head on over to www.michellepurta.com and subscribe!