Eps 475: Nurturing partner relationships and parenting with Aaron Steinberg

Joyful Courage for Parenting Teens

My guest today is Aaron Steinberg.

Aaron is super passionate about equipping couples with the tools they need for the challenges of parenthood. The good news is that these challenges are universal, and we can make changes in our relationships. Aaron and I get into a whole lot in our conversation: family meetings, offering & receiving feedback from a spouse, and how to talk to your spouse when you’re the one with the new tools & ideas to try. I love Aaron’s framing of being “somewhat right” and why the objective truth doesn’t really matter in a relationship. I ask Aaron what he thinks about ambivalence showing up in a long-term relationship and what realistic expectations are in a long marriage.

Takeaways from the show:

• Parenting brings up all kinds of things from our past & can make us feel incompatible with our partner
• Sometimes our needs are seemingly incompatible with our partner’s needs
• Relationships are constant practice
• Family meetings
• Offering feedback kindly & receiving feedback openly
• Separating feelings problems from action problems
• Erasing competitiveness from problems
• Being “somewhat right”
• Ambivalence in a long relationship
• Checking your vision of marriage

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