Couples Therapy In Seven Words

Can a card game for couples help your relationship? In this episode we interview Diana Indries, co-creator of the Better Topics for Couples card game. Diana explains the game and how she came to invent it with her husband, and takes us through some of the questions. Find out more about the game at bettertopics.com.

Here’s the link to the Seven Days article profiling us.

Send in your questions: email us at [email protected], [email protected], or just visit CTin7.com. We'd love to hear from you!

And let us know if you'd like to be interviewed on the show! Visit CTin7.com for more information.

Dr. Chalmer's book Reigniting the Spark: Why Stable Relationships Lose Intimacy, and How to Get It Back is available here, or wherever you get your books.

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Music: Besamim (Spices) by Bruce Chalmer, performed by Fyre and Lightning Consort

Diane Sullivan is known as "The Rev," and is the art director of Seven Days, a newspaper in Vermont, for which she does an advice column. She is also the host of a podcast, "Talking Sh*t About Death." We have a delightful conversation with Diane about those pursuits, about her late husband's pee pictures, about a listener question, and...well, all sorts of things!

Send in your questions: email us at [email protected], [email protected], or just visit couplestherapyinsevenwords.com. We'd love to hear from you!

And let us know if you'd like to be interviewed on the show! Visit couplestherapyinsevenwords.com for more information.

Dr. Chalmer's book Reigniting the Spark: Why Stable Relationships Lose Intimacy, and How to Get It Back is available here, or wherever you get your books.

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Music: Besamim (Spices) by Bruce Chalmer, performed by Fyre and Lightning Consort

Cross-dressing is not all that unusual among heterosexual men, but their wives are usually not very happy about it. We handle a question from a listener who hid his cross-dressing secret from his wife for decades, only to be discovered. Now what?

Here’s the link to the Seven Days article profiling us.

Send in your questions: email us at [email protected], [email protected], or just visit couplestherapyinsevenwords.com. We'd love to hear from you!

And let us know if you'd like to be interviewed on the show! Visit couplestherapyinsevenwords.com for more information.

Dr. Chalmer's book Reigniting the Spark: Why Stable Relationships Lose Intimacy, and How to Get It Back is available here, or wherever you get your books.

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Music: Besamim (Spices) by Bruce Chalmer, performed by Fyre and Lightning Consort

When is it okay to move on after losing a relationship, either to death or divorce, and when is it too soon? What about the dreaded "one-year rule?" And what about the kids? Should they have a veto? We talk about these issues, and handle a listener question from a man who's begun to date less than a year after his wife's death.

Send in your questions: email us at [email protected], [email protected], or just visit couplestherapyinsevenwords.com. We'd love to hear from you!

And let us know if you'd like to be interviewed on the show! Visit couplestherapyinsevenwords.com for more information.

Dr. Chalmer's book Reigniting the Spark: Why Stable Relationships Lose Intimacy, and How to Get It Back is available here, or wherever you get your books.

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Music: Besamim (Spices) by Bruce Chalmer, performed by Fyre and Lightning Consort

Can a couple survive if they can only find ten minutes a week for an uninterrupted conversation? We discuss an article from Psychology Today called “The 4-Hour Relationship,” and find we don’t completely agree on the premise!

The link to the article we talk about is here.

Send in your questions: email us at [email protected], [email protected], or just visit couplestherapyinsevenwords.com. We'd love to hear from you!

And let us know if you'd like to be interviewed on the show! Visit couplestherapyinsevenwords.com for more information.

Dr. Chalmer's book Reigniting the Spark: Why Stable Relationships Lose Intimacy, and How to Get It Back is available here, or wherever you get your books.

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Music: Besamim (Spices) by Bruce Chalmer, performed by Fyre and Lightning Consort

We look forward to the coming year!

Send in your questions: email us at [email protected], [email protected], or just visit couplestherapyinsevenwords.com. We'd love to hear from you!

And let us know if you'd like to be interviewed on the show! Visit couplestherapyinsevenwords.com for more information.

Dr. Chalmer's book Reigniting the Spark: Why Stable Relationships Lose Intimacy, and How to Get It Back is available here, or wherever you get your books.

Like this podcast? Review us, like us, follow us, and do all those other kinds of wonderful things to us! It helps people find the show.

Music: Besamim (Spices) by Bruce Chalmer, performed by Fyre and Lightning Consort

What do you think about the possibility of living to 100? However old you get to be, how can you live a life worth living, a life of meaning and fulfillment? We interview psychologist Dr. Joe Casciani, whose Living to 100 Club offers help with these issues, and we tackle a question from a listener who is aging well herself but fears her husband has given up.

Send in your questions: email us at [email protected], [email protected], or just visit couplestherapyinsevenwords.com. We'd love to hear from you!

And let us know if you'd like to be interviewed on the show! Visit couplestherapyinsevenwords.com for more information.

Dr. Chalmer's book Reigniting the Spark: Why Stable Relationships Lose Intimacy, and How to Get It Back is available here, or wherever you get your books.

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Music: Besamim (Spices) by Bruce Chalmer, performed by Fyre and Lightning Consort

We look back over our podcast year, and look ahead to 2022. Communication (more specifically, “It’s Not About Communication!”) continues to be our most popular topic, followed by sex. (Kind of makes sense, doesn’t it!) Along the way, Bruce lets slip what he’s working on for his next book.

Send in your questions: email us at [email protected], [email protected], or just visit CouplesTherapyInSevenWords.com. We'd love to hear from you!

And let us know if you'd like to be interviewed on the show! Visit CouplesTherapyInSevenWords.com for more information.

Dr. Chalmer's book Reigniting the Spark: Why Stable Relationships Lose Intimacy, and How to Get It Back is available here, or wherever you get your books.

Like this podcast? Review us, like us, follow us, and do all those other kinds of wonderful things to us! It helps people find the show.

Music: Besamim (Spices) by Bruce Chalmer, performed by Fyre and Lightning Consort

Want to change your sex life from meh to magnificent? We talk to women’s intimacy and sex coach Debbie Elzea. She tells us about seven things that women need for a great sex life, and answers a listener question from a woman who’s too pooped to participate.

Debbie’s website is https://moreintimacy.net.

Send in your questions: email us at [email protected], or just visit brucechalmer.com. We'd love to hear from you!

And let us know if you'd like to be interviewed on the show! Visit brucechalmer.com/podcast for more information.

Dr. Chalmer's book Reigniting the Spark: Why Stable Relationships Lose Intimacy, and How to Get It Back is available here, or wherever you get your books.

Like this podcast? Review us, like us, follow us, and do all those other kinds of wonderful things to us! It helps people find the show.

Music: Besamim (Spices) by Bruce Chalmer, performed by Fyre and Lightning Consort

How do you handle Christmas if you’re not Christian? Judy shares her experience as a synagogue educator working with interfaith families who want to strengthen their child’s Jewish identity, and Bruce tells how his feelings about this have evolved over the years. We handle a listener question from a Jewish woman married to a non-practicing Catholic man about how to handle Christmas with their daughter, who they are raising Jewish.

The website Judy talks about is 18doors.org.

Send in your questions: email us at [email protected], or just visit brucechalmer.com. We'd love to hear from you!

And let us know if you'd like to be interviewed on the show! Visit brucechalmer.com/podcast for more information.

Dr. Chalmer's book Reigniting the Spark: Why Stable Relationships Lose Intimacy, and How to Get It Back is available here, or wherever you get your books.

Like this podcast? Review us, like us, follow us, and do all those other kinds of wonderful things to us! It helps people find the show.

Music: Besamim (Spices) by Bruce Chalmer, performed by Fyre and Lightning Consort