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There can be a prevalence of loneliness in marriage...even the most content marriages or connected marriages experience loneliness at times. What do we mean by loneliness and how do we navigate loneliness?  Listen in as Dr. Steve and Lisa Call have a conversation about loneliness and ways we can honor the loneliness that can be a common experience within our marriage as well as helpful ways we can respond to our spouse's loneliness. 

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Feeling frustrated can be a common experience for us in marriage and how  we navigate our frustration plays a key role in our marriage relationship.  Frustration is of course expected at times and yet sometimes we try to hide our frustration rather than reveal it. How  we communicate our frustration is essential to allow us to be seen and understood by our spouse.
Jump into this conversation with Dr. Steve and Lisa Call to discover and hear ways we can express and hear frustration that leads us toward  the connection we desire.  

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We are hard wired to feel but often we try to talk the other out of what they feel by using statements that begin with "I think..."  At times this can create a sense of disconnection between spouses. Listen in though as Dr. Steve and Lisa Call have a conversation that helps guide couples in expressing emotion that invites a desired response  and how we can stay present to our spouse's emotion without the need to dismiss it or minimize it. 

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Each spouse has a story and many of our stories are filled with pain, hurt, disappointment, heartache, and grief. In this podcast,  we focus on how to engage our spouse's story well. Listen in as Dr. Steve and Lisa Call offer  thoughtful guidance and reflection into how we can be curious about our spouse's story in a way that creates the connection we desire. 

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Each of us has a story that we bring to our marriage. And those stories create our marriage story. Thus our marriage story is directly impacted by our family of origin stories. Our stories can create context and give insight into what's happening in our marriage dynamic. Listen in as Dr. Steve and Lisa Call offer further exploration into how story helps us make sense of the interactions in our marriage.

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A common spoken and unspoken phrase in marriage is "I feel disconnected."  It's an attempt to create connection yet it has the potential to create distance and disconnection. Listen in as Dr. Steve and Lisa Call offer some helpful insight into how this statement can be offered and received in ways that move us toward one another relationally  and create the connection that we long for in marriage.

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The holiday season can offer such goodness as well as such disappointment. We often have certain hopes and expectations during this season which can often lead to unmet expectations. Listen in as Dr. Steve and Lisa Call offer some honest reflection in how we can honor both the goodness of this season as well as the disappointment associated with unmet expectations.

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Essential to the wellbeing of our marriage are rituals of connection. Rituals of connection communicate that "you matter, I matter and we matter." Rituals of connection help facilitate reconnection in our marriage, especially in times of distress or difficulty. Listen in as Dr. Steve and Lisa Call have a conversation around the benefits of rituals of connection that  allow us to thrive in our marriages. 

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How we express need with and toward our spouse plays a significant role in our marriage relationship.  It has the potential to create a sense of collaboration or a sense of distance. 
We are invited to name need as possibility rather than as demand. Listen in as Dr. Steve and Lisa Call have a conversation around how we can express need as an invitation to collaborate and hear our spouse's  expression of need as invitation that creates intimacy. 

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Assumptions we make can play a significant role in our marriage, particularly in moments and experiences of disconnection. Yet, when we make an assumption about our spouse's behavior, it inhibits or limits the possibility of something different. Listen in as Dr. Steve and Lisa Call offer refections on how assumptions can perpetuate disconnection and helpful ways to navigate the assumptions we make regarding our interactions with our spouse.