A Better Love with Dr. Greg Matos

Join Dr. Greg to talk about how to set up boundaries with ex-partners that honor your collective values. We’ll be talking about relationships with co-parents in another episode, today we’re talking about a situation where there aren’t children involved.

On the episode:

1. Open and closed systems.

2. Understanding your cultural norms and influences.

3. Starting a conversation about it.

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Join Dr. Greg to discuss the impact of narcissistic personality traits on a relationship. On today's episode:

1. What are common narcissistic traits?
2. What are their consequences on emotional validation and defensiveness?
3. Understanding the possibility for change in the context of flexibility.

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Join Dr. Greg to answer a listener's question about how to handle her spouse spending hours on Xbox until the wee hours of the evening and then just coming to bed versus spending quality time with her.

On today’s episode:

1. Gaming habits as relationship problems.

2. Gentle Startup

3. Focusing on Positive Needs and Integrating Partner’s Needs

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Join Dr. Greg to reflect on this past year and set your intentions for the life and love that you want to create in the coming year.

In this episode:

1. The power of intentions.
2. Intentions in single life, dating, and long-term relationships.
3. Examples of rituals of emotional connection.

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Join Dr. Greg to answer this TikTok listener's question: do we always get it right, when someone doesn't see a future for the relationship?

On this episode:
1. My fundamental relationship rule.
2. Making meaning of loss.
3. A basis of hope in the midst of sadness, loneliness, and loss.

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Join Dr. Greg to discuss attraction, dating, and the chase in this 3-minute episode:

1. Novelty of the chase
2. Discussion of the chase in dating and long-term relationships.
3. Discussion of genuine interest as well as avoidance.

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Join Dr. Greg for a conversation about understanding our family systems better ahead of family celebrations over the next couple of weeks.

In today's episode:
1. Clarifying a healthy developmental environment.
2. Challenging ourselves to identify our 5 most important social connections.
3. Deepening relationships with biological or chosen family.

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Join Dr. Greg to discuss dating and match, how looking for fewer similarities may mean more relationship adjustment stress. Big picture, think about matches that will put less wear and tear on your relationship in the long term. 

In this episode:
1. Locke Wallace Relationship Adjustment Test
2. Similarities and Differences
3. Examples of differences that lead to growth.

Send us your relationship questions @abetterloveproject on TikTok and Instagram. And today, let us know how A Better Love Project has had a positive impact on your life. Send an email to greg [at] abetterloveproject.org. I look forward to hearing from you.

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Join Dr. Greg for an in-depth discussion of Love Maps, including a free Love Maps Card Deck from the Gottman Institute and instructions on how to play a Love Maps game with your partner. 

Stay curious about your lover and their world with this exercise and supercharge your emotional connection.

Our podcast is audience-centered, answering your relationship questions. 

We challenge you to go beyond listening to this podcast and start trying out new skills and strategies. Download a free relationship health checklist with episode recommendations for your particular relationship goal: https://subscribe.abetterloveproject.org.

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Join Dr. Greg to discuss diaphragmatic breathing and retraining our mind and body to lower overall physiological arousal. This is the first of our podcasts with an exercise you'll do along with Dr. Greg. 

In this episode:
5-minutes of breathing retraining for you.

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