12 Week Relationships Podcast

We're back with more community-submitted relationship questions!

We love collaborating with our incredible community so if you're curious about anything relationship related, you can DM us your questions on Instagram at @12weekrelationships! While we don't offer direct relationship advice, we may select your question for an upcoming Q&A episode. We respect your privacy so we promise your name will remain anonymous.

Most of the relationships you create will fail to have long term significance. Don’t worry, there’s nothing wrong with you! This truth applies to virtually everyone. Of all the people you’ll encounter in your lifetime, a small portion will be a part of your social sphere. An even smaller portion will become close friends, and even fewer, intimate relationships.



Who you spend your time with will also significantly influence who you become, and so because our resources are so limited, we owe it to ourselves to cultivate the right relationships.

A healthy relationship is energizing and allows for each partner to be the best version of themselves without judgement. On the other hand, an unhealthy relationship leaves you feeling drained, anxious, and hesitant to be your true self. To help better understand if you're in an unhealthy relationship, Pye and Dr. Glen walk through some common signs and behaviors that may indicate a need for change.

As soon as it happened, the questions began pouring in. We're talking about the Will Smith / Chris Rock controversy at this year's Academy Awards. So what really happened?? There are some interesting arguments being made including who's really at fault or whether this was about preserving masculinity and honor. In hopes of putting to bed some claims being shared on the internet, Pye and Dr. Glen provide some experts' insight on what this incident may have really been about.

Through years of research, Pye simplified a relationship into three simple core components: Desire, Quality Time, and Sustainability. These three make up a loop called the Stupid-Simple Relationship Method, or SSRM. If a relationship runs into trouble, it often means that one or more of these three components is missing or has begun to fade.

This stupid-simple formula is designed to help you better understand why some relationships work and others don't. And this applies to all of your relationships, not just your romantic ones.

In order to tell whether a relationship is healthy or not, look closely at their body language and subtle behaviors. These will often reveal more than words. Certain behaviors can indicate differences in values that will later become major conflicts. Certain body language can also indicate how each partner regards one another. Keep in mind that some of these signs can be subtle. But too many in a row can be a huge red flag.

Using years of observations, Pye and Dr. Glen have compiled a list of subtle signs that can indicate a relationship's health and this is part 2 of that list.

Pye and Dr. Glen asked 30+ professionals, "What does a healthy relationship look like?" And not one could provide an adequate answer and we're talking counselors, marriage therapists, relationship experts, life/relationship coaches, psychologists, etc.

Their answers were no better than the bad relationship advice floating out there in the world. You know, the statements that sound profound but offer little-to-no actionable guidance?

Upon further research, Pye and Dr. Glen discovered deep flaws in couple's therapy and the reasons that made them so statistically ineffective.

Thus, 12 Week Relationships was created, with the goal of simplifying the complex world of relationships and providing effective and actionable guidance that leads to positive and long lasting change.

Children are highly complex and intuitive. They're naturally filled with creativity, energy, and emotion. It's a parent's role to foster and nurture these qualities to ensure the children grow up with the necessary skills to healthily express themselves, handle conflict, and process emotions.

Amanda Lee, creator of My Mommy the Artist, shares 4 great tips for communicating effectively with children and creating a safe learning environment as the children become exposed to new and increasingly complex challenges.

Our entire mission is to simplify the complex subject of relationships and to help in your journey by sharing practical and actionable guidance, backed by science and real-world research.

Because we’re constantly looking for new science and data to improve every aspect of what we do, we're always creating new content!

This is why we're creating a newsletter called the TWR Roadmap, where Pye and Dr. Glen have an opportunity to guide you along this journey in a step-by-step format.

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Narcissism comes in many colors and Shake and Deepti are two different shades. Nuance is important when discussing narcissism and the role it plays in trauma-based relationships, particularly Shake and Deepti's. While that nuance seems to have been completely missed by the cast of Love is Blind, Pye and Dr. Glen are here to analyze Shake and Deepti's complex relationship and the heated exchange that ensued between Shake and the cast.