Do you and your partner have the same definition of love? Are you sure? We've found that the Heart partner and the Head partner see love in very different ways. Hearts are feeling it. Heads are managing it. Find out why that matters so much as Randy and Beverly talk about how love is defined. 

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Heart Versus Head is a podcast about relationship styles and how those relationship styles influence communication in the most important relationships. The hosts - Randy Hampton and Beverly Craddock - are a married couple who are sought-after relationship coaches, award-winning authors and regular people who (like everyone in relationships) are just trying to stay connected through all the noise of life in the modern world. You can learn more about the couple and their work at HeartAndHeadCoaching.com, where you'll learn to fight better and connect again. Or check out their relationship books: Heart Versus Head: How to Communicate and Connect When Nothing Else Works (2026) and The Couples Rulebook (2019).

In this episode, Randy and Beverly explain why Heart/Heart relationships and Head/Head relationships don't work like you think they might. Listen and consider how all relationships seek the balance of Heart and Head. The secret isn't finding someone who has a relationship style just like yours, it's about finding the person who can balance your style, create polarity, and slide the correct direction to support you when you're struggling. When you can do that... everything else works better. 

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Heart Versus Head is a podcast about relationship styles and how those relationship styles influence communication in the most important relationships. The hosts - Randy Hampton and Beverly Craddock - are a married couple who are sought-after relationship coaches, award-winning authors and regular people who (like everyone in relationships) are just trying to stay connected through all the noise of life in the modern world. You can learn more about the couple and their work at HeartAndHeadCoaching.com, where you'll learn to fight better and connect again. Or check out their relationship books: Heart Versus Head: How to Communicate and Connect When Nothing Else Works (2026) and The Couples Rulebook (2019).

Why do we seem drawn to the bad relationships of the past? Have you ever been in a good relationship but felt like you were craving an old partner - even if the old relationship was horrible? Or maybe you keep dating the same kind of problem. What's wrong with us? What's wrong with our brains? Why do trauma bonds have such a strong draw. In this episode of Heart Versus Head, Randy and Beverly dig deeper into what goes on when we get hurt and why we seem to gravitate back to that familiar, previous damage. #HeartVersusHead 

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Heart Versus Head is a podcast about relationship styles and how those relationship styles influence communication in the most important relationships. The hosts - Randy Hampton and Beverly Craddock - are a married couple who are sought-after relationship coaches, award-winning authors and regular people who (like everyone in relationships) are just trying to stay connected through all the noise of life in the modern world. You can learn more about the couple and their work at HeartAndHeadCoaching.com, where you'll learn to fight better and connect again. Or check out their relationship books: Heart Versus Head: How to Communicate and Connect When Nothing Else Works (2026) and The Couples Rulebook (2019).

In this episode, Randy and Beverly explain why fighting deeper is so important, especially when it comes to those arguments that seem to repeat themselves for years on end. If you've been fighting about the same thing over and over and over and over and over... this episode will show you an easier way. It's time to really get under the hood and fix this relationship for good. Vroom! Vroom!

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Heart Versus Head is a podcast about relationship styles and how those relationship styles influence communication in the most important relationships. The hosts - Randy Hampton and Beverly Craddock - are a married couple who are sought-after relationship coaches, award-winning authors and regular people who (like everyone in relationships) are just trying to stay connected through all the noise of life in the modern world. You can learn more about the couple and their work at HeartAndHeadCoaching.com, where you'll learn to fight better and connect again. Or check out their relationship books: Heart Versus Head: How to Communicate and Connect When Nothing Else Works (2026) and The Couples Rulebook (2019).

Humans generally know it. When we're in a disagreement, we're slinging hurt. So why is it so hard to slow down with our partner and see that they're hurting. In this episode of Heart Versus Head, Randy and Beverly explain how hurt disguises itself as anger, defensiveness, withdrawal and a whole bunch of other tricky emotions when hurt shows up in a relationship. When you learn to recognize hurt and respond to it appropriately, everything - every thing - gets easier. Here's a great episode to share with your partner and your friends... Unmasking the Hidden Hurt. #UnmaskingTheHiddenHurt #HeartVersusHead

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Heart Versus Head is a podcast about relationship styles and how those relationship styles influence communication in the most important relationships. The hosts - Randy Hampton and Beverly Craddock - are a married couple who are sought-after relationship coaches, award-winning authors and regular people who (like everyone in relationships) are just trying to stay connected through all the noise of life in the modern world. You can learn more about the couple and their work at HeartAndHeadCoaching.com, where you'll learn to fight better and connect again. Or check out their relationship books: Heart Versus Head: How to Communicate and Connect When Nothing Else Works (2026) and The Couples Rulebook (2019).

In this episode, Randy and Beverly explain why the honeymoon phase can't last forever. And why trying to get it back is actually the wrong approach - relationally and scientifically. And they'll explain how you can learn to communicate in a way that helps you finally achieve something much better than the honeymoon phase - something you've always wanted. 

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Heart Versus Head is a podcast about relationship styles and how those relationship styles influence communication in the most important relationships. The hosts - Randy Hampton and Beverly Craddock - are a married couple who are sought-after relationship coaches, award-winning authors and regular people who (like everyone in relationships) are just trying to stay connected through all the noise of life in the modern world. You can learn more about the couple and their work at HeartAndHeadCoaching.com, where you'll learn to fight better and connect again. Or check out their relationship books: Heart Versus Head: How to Communicate and Connect When Nothing Else Works (2026) and The Couples Rulebook (2019).

Is your relationship getting heated? Are you feeling more angry these days? In this episode of Heart Versus Head, Randy and Beverly dive into why anger shows up in relationships and how you can navigate the angry moments with more compassion. 

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Heart Versus Head is a podcast about relationship styles and how those relationship styles influence communication in the most important relationships. The hosts - Randy Hampton and Beverly Craddock - are a married couple who are sought-after relationship coaches, award-winning authors and regular people who (like everyone in relationships) are just trying to stay connected through all the noise of life in the modern world. You can learn more about the couple and their work at HeartAndHeadCoaching.com, where you'll learn to fight better and connect again. Or check out their relationship books: Heart Versus Head: How to Communicate and Connect When Nothing Else Works (2026) and The Couples Rulebook (2019).

On the one year anniversary of the Heart Versus Head podcast, Randy and Beverly discuss how the podcast almost killed them, explain why they argued about the title of this episode, and finally tell the story of how they met. Plus, they've got some practical insight into how the small, often unnoticed things couples have in common can make a big difference in a relationship. #HeartVersusHead 

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Heart Versus Head is a podcast about relationship styles and how those relationship styles influence communication in the most important relationships. The hosts - Randy Hampton and Beverly Craddock - are a married couple who are sought-after relationship coaches, award-winning authors and regular people who (like everyone in relationships) are just trying to stay connected through all the noise of life in the modern world. You can learn more about the couple and their work at HeartAndHeadCoaching.com, where you'll learn to fight better and connect again. Or check out their relationship books: Heart Versus Head: How to Communicate and Connect When Nothing Else Works (2026) and The Couples Rulebook (2019).

What do you do that triggers your partner? What do you that causes them to blow up like a landmine? For Randy, it's criticism. For Beverly, it's looking over her shoulder. But how do you handle those things as a couple? How do you avoid the landmines to keep from triggering each other? Then, how do you defuse those things so you aren't always walking through a minefield? In this episode, we'll show you how to learn to laugh at yourselves a bit while growing together into more stable humans. #HeartVersusHead #AvoidTheLandmines 

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Heart Versus Head is a podcast about relationship styles and how those relationship styles influence communication in the most important relationships. The hosts - Randy Hampton and Beverly Craddock - are a married couple who are sought-after relationship coaches, award-winning authors and regular people who (like everyone in relationships) are just trying to stay connected through all the noise of life in the modern world. You can learn more about the couple and their work at HeartAndHeadCoaching.com, where you'll learn to fight better and connect again. Or check out their relationship books: Heart Versus Head: How to Communicate and Connect When Nothing Else Works (2026) and The Couples Rulebook (2019).

In this episode, Randy and Beverly help couples explore why we put so much pressure on our partners and ourselves when it comes to happiness. When it is someone's responsibility to make you happy... they're going to let you down. Not because they don't love you but because they're human too. How can couples break the cycle and find their happiness again?   

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Heart Versus Head is a podcast about relationship styles and how those relationship styles influence communication in the most important relationships. The hosts - Randy Hampton and Beverly Craddock - are a married couple who are sought-after relationship coaches, award-winning authors and regular people who (like everyone in relationships) are just trying to stay connected through all the noise of life in the modern world. You can learn more about the couple and their work at HeartAndHeadCoaching.com, where you'll learn to fight better and connect again. Or check out their relationship books: Heart Versus Head: How to Communicate and Connect When Nothing Else Works (2026) and The Couples Rulebook (2019).