How much time should you spend together?

What constitutes quality time?

How do you talk about your need for alone time, and time apart?

How do you divide your time when you’re busy and there never seems to be enough time?

In this episode, Jess and Brandon share their personal responses to the questions in the “Talking About Time Discussion” — questions and reflection prompts for better time management in relationships. You can utilize it with a partner or any other loved one and use these prompt to get started:

How much time do you like to spend alone and why?

How much time do you want to spend with friends? Why is it important to you to spend time with friends?

How much time do you want to spend with your family? Why is time with your family important to you?

Are you happy with the time we do spend together - would you like more or less?

Would you like to spend our time together differently?

What benefits do you attach to spending time apart?

What do you see as the greatest impediment to spending quality time together? How can we address this?

What change can we make this week to improve the quality of the time together?

How did your family spend time together growing up? What might you change if you could do it again?

What is your definition of “quality time”?

Do you have any experiences; with quality time, lack of time, or time apart from other relationships that might help me understand how you feel about how we allocate time together and apart?

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Participant #1:

You're listening to the Sex with Dr. Jess podcast. Sex and relationship advice you can use tonight. Welcome to the Sex with Dr. Jess podcast. I'm your co host, Brandon Ware, here with my lovely other half, Dr. Jess. Hey, it's 2022. It is. We're hanging in surviving. How are your New Year's resolutions going? Last week, we talked about different resolutions for couples. And you talked a little bit about your plans for the year. What's on your mind? Yeah, my resolutions are going reasonably well. Ask me again next week. Well, you're working out. That was sort of one of your resolutions. Yeah. Just to maintain physical activity every single day and to also read a little bit more. So I've definitely checked both those boxes so far. What are you reading? You really want to know? I've been reading up more on NFTs and decentralized finance in the basement with my hoodie on and the lights off. No, it's actually really interesting stuff. There's really interesting stuff happening in that field. I know that it's still on the margins in some ways. I know that it's a specific group that's involved in it primarily. Okay. What have you learned any, like, Pearls of system? I still don't know. I've been reading up for about ten months on it, and I'd like to give a shout out to a couple of good friends of ours who kind of introduced us to it so that,