“In Sickness and In Health”

IVF Update

Mayra’s Surgery

Seeing your partner go through pain

Emotional pain

Supporting your partner through negative feelings

Practicing understanding/ active listening instead of prescribing feelings and not being judgmental

Physical pain

Caring for your spouse - nurse Rene

Being a team through physical ailments

Next steps - IVF

Support and love from family and friends

Work / Life Balance- when should it be flexible when does it need to be defined?

Bye Bye Summer / Hello Fall

Vegas

Good Boys

Allowing your partner to pursue their passions:

Living a fulfilled and balanced life

Being yourself in your marriage to the point that your partner encourages you to pursue your passion

Renes passion or passions

Mayra’s understanding of Rene needing to work on his passion

Mayra’s passions and renes response to those pursuits

Including your partner in your expression for creativity

The positive impacts of these creative pursuits in marriage

IVF Updates

Conclusion

Life Starts when the Church Ends

Been a month since our last podcast, what have we been up to?

We were apart for almost two weeks

Discussing and planning for time apart

Taking time tos how appreciation

Religion and Spirituality

Mayra is very spiritual,

Renés beliefs are different

Catholic Background

Mayra

Raised catholic

Went to catholic school

Does not practice

Rene

Raised catholic

Went to catholic school

Taught CCD, altar boy, choir

No longer believes in God

Evolution of Religion and Spirituality

What changed for both Rene and Mayra?

How do you feel about the catholic religion? The catholic church?

Why did we get married in the church?

Mayra plans on raising our children catholic. Rene?

How do we make it work?

Open mind

Patience

Good/Bad vs Believer/Non-Believer

How do our parents feel?

Introduction

Topic of the week: Gender Roles in Marriage

Household Responsibilities

cooking, dishes, laundry, cleaning, yard work, etc

Expectations for these roles

The norm vs Us

While growing up and seeing our parents gender roles and how that impacts our roles in our marriage

Making money and gender roles

Our time in Chicago and the impact it had on Mayra contributing to the household income

René’s new responsibilities of financially being responsible for his partner

Wedding Officiant

IVF updates

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No Intimacy for Family Planning - An Infertility Journey

Our plans for a family after marriage

No success after a year

Testing - everything is good! Keep trying

When everyone around you convinces you that you will achieve pregnancy despite the struggle

Instincts are better than medical advice

Enough is enough… seeing a specialist

Learning natural conception would never be possible

Planning for treatment

Coverage for infertility treatment

1st part of treatment- egg retrieval journey: injections, high egg production, physical, emotional, financial burdens, and practicing abstinence during the process

Egg retrieval results

Episode 4- Story Of Us by Not So Perfect Marriage

Rene and I get real about what’s actually been going on in our life- which includes dealing with conflict, unplugging during the weekend, what we both think about manifestation and law of attraction, family planning, the benefits of spending time away from your partner, and of course more reviews on our beloved impossible burger.

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