What does it actually take to keep a marriage strong when you're raising young kids, running multiple businesses, exhausted, ambitious—and very different people?
For this episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana is joined by her most personal guest yet: her husband, Eric Stein.
And yes, putting your husband on your therapy podcast is apparently a perfectly reasonable marital decision.
Dana and Eric have been together for more than a decade, built businesses side by side, become parents to two young children, and navigated plenty of conflict, growth, therapy, and change along the way.
This isn't a conversation about having a perfect marriage.
It's about what they've learned while building a real one.
Dana and Eric talk candidly about couples therapy, emotional avoidance, communication, ambition, parenting, division of responsibilities, resentment, risk, success, and why giving your partner room to grow may be one of the most important things you can do for a relationship.
Eric also opens up about his own experience with therapy—and what it was like learning to identify and express emotions as an adult after spending much of his life doing what many men are taught to do:
Push it down. Keep going. Handle it.
Because relationships don't stay strong because two people magically fit together.
They stay strong when two people are willing to keep learning how to fit together as life changes.
About Eric Stein
Eric Stein is a nationally recognized real estate professional, brokerage owner, developer, husband, and father.
Eric began his career in real estate at just 18 years old and has spent more than 20 years building businesses across the industry.
He is the owner of RE/MAX Distinguished Homes & Properties in Tuckahoe, New York, where he leads a top-producing brokerage. As an individual agent, Eric ranks among the top professionals in Westchester County and has been recognized among the top 1.5% of agents nationwide by RealTrends America's Best.
He also buys, renovates, and develops properties throughout Westchester County and the Bronx and has presented nationally on real estate negotiation and strategy.
But for this conversation, Dana isn't interviewing the real estate expert.
She's talking to her husband.
🏠 Connect With Eric:
www.westchesterhomesource.com
🏗️ Real Estate Investments:
www.westchesterhomesale.com
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And stay tuned for Part 2, where Dana and Eric dig deeper into what it's really like to build businesses while building a family.
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