When your job is emotionally taxing, how do you keep your relationship safe? 

My podcast guest today, Mitch Brooks, is a firefighter and parametric who responds to S.W.A.T. calls. You can imagine that’s a pretty stressful job, but he didn’t think he was bringing that stress home until one day when he stepped on a half-melted ice cube and he completely lost it.

• Why it took his wife, Michelle, speaking up for Mitch to realize the impact his job and anger had on his family.
• 3 tools to help you process your emotions–meditation, check up from the neck up, and fur therapy.
• How to rebuild communication in your relationship after wounding has occurred.

Habit for Your Happily Ever After

The habit I’d like to offer you for this week is to pause. Pause and wonder.

Ask yourself what kind of stressor your job—or your partner’s job—is putting on your relationship. Then wonder about the long term consequences of a stress like that.

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