On this week’s episode of the Not So Perfect Marriage Podcast we talk about the craziness that is buying home. We talk about all of the living arrangements including renting, living with parents and finally moving into your own home. We're not experts, but you'll here about our experience navigating the home buying process and remodeling your home.

We also spend some time talking about recently celebrating our 7th anniversary and celebrating Rene's upcoming birthday!

Enjoy!

On this week’s episode of the Not So Perfect Marriage Podcast we talk about one of the most impactful resources that helped our marriage while we were navigating being first time parents.

We talk about how we got into therapy, how therapy helped our interactions and overall communication styles, and we openly discuss one of the issues we brought up during therapy. Spoiler alert, it has to do with money! One of the things most couples argue about: money.

We also talk about the anxiety of trying to find a good nanny that you trust and love, after our long time plan for childcare fell through. We talk about how we found our nanny, how having a nanny worked for our family, our experience being our nanny’s employers and the responsibilities that came with that. Similarly, we discuss our choice to have our baby start Montessori school after he turned two years old and how Montessori school has been working for us and our baby.

Lasly, we talk briefly about our weekend trip to Vegas, the good, bad, and the ugly. Just kidding, it was a great time with an awesome show, shopping, and gambling.

Enjoy!

Marriage after baby

a. Day of birth

b. The difficulty of the newborn phase

c. Sleep training

d. Getting to know ourselves as mom and dad

e. Living life as a family of three

i. Navigating the challenges

ii. Lots of arguments and a lot of adjustments

iii. Intimacy after baby

iv. Commitment to your marriage is a daily choice-putting energy into further enhancing the relationship

f. Mayra's birthday

Marriage and Pregnancy

Impacts on the relationship due to pregnancy

Pros and Cons

Pros- closer relationship

Cons- Navigating pregnancy complications together, Intimacy issues due to pregnancy complications, pregnancy during a pandemic

Cleared for intimacy and daddy issues with the belly

Expectations about Parenthood- Baby Prep

Worries…

Fears…

Concerns…

Looking forward to..

Overall Pregnancy - what’s its been like for us

Current Pregnancy Status..?

Explanation- how we decided to stop talking about our IVF journey but secretly kept going

ERA- Endometrial Receptivity Analysis

Frozen Embryo Transfer

22 weeks pregnant- feeling / thoughts

Gender reveal

Reviews

Handling the pandemic as a couple

Current work situations

Who is my partner at work?

Pursuing individual interests/ goals

Fitness

Separating work from home

Take out/ date nights

Handling being away from loved ones

Preparing for the foreseeable future

Who Doesn’t Love to Travel??

Quick recap of the last month

Overdue Podcast

Our latest trip to Arizona- Scottsdale

Who Doesn’t Love to Travel

How often?

Best trips together?

Previous favorite trips?

Current trips planned?

Conclusion

Valentines Day topic: Sexy times in marriage

Life updates- new lifestyle who dis?

Plant based!

Cheese was responsible for our quiet New Years in Vegas

René is a model … Prophet too

Sex Museum in Las Vegas

Reading material…Come as you are…author Emily Nagoski

.curiosity… the most embarrassing thing that happened to Mayr this decade

Our sex life- not what you thought

Frequency, duration, intensity

Final thoughts …. KOBE

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Navigating the holidays

Cultural differences

Chilean traditions vs Mexican traditions

Gift giving when you’re married

Things your spouse does that annoy you

René lost his credit card , putting crazy amounts of TP in the toilet and clogging the toilet

René is a crazy genius

Mayra is “messy” and goes to bed early , too positive

Mayra doesn’t listen to Rene until someone else tells her the same thing

Compromise

IVF update