It's easy to look to our partner to make us happy and fulfill our needs. However, instead of looking on the outside, we often need to look within. Listen to today's show to understand how to be in a healthy relationship with the understanding that our partner will not fulfill all of our needs.   In this episode, we discuss relationship advice topics that include: 

• Deconstructing the myth that our partner will fulfill all our needs
• Using the hard times in a relationship and turning them into breakthrough moments rather than breakdowns or breakups
• Circumstances where you could be looking toward your partner for fulfillment rather than within
• Understanding codependent relationships and breaking away from this type of relating
• The importance of regular relationship check ins
• And much more!

Charlie and Linda Bloom have been married since 1972. Trained as psychotherapists and relationship counselors, they have worked with individuals, couples, groups and organizations since 1975. They have lectured and taught at learning institutes throughout the USA, including the Esalen Institute, the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, the California Institute for Integral Studies, the Meridian University, John F. Kennedy University, the Crossings, Omega institute, the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, University of California at Berkeley Extension Program, the Hoffman Institute and the World Health Organization.

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