In a time when friend may mean someone you know on Facebook, what is a good friend and how do you know if you are one? Alvean and Doug talk about friendship and relationships and how the two relate. For a full transcript, click here: LL61-Are you a good friend?
For many couples that moment when one decides that its time to begin living together can be a fraught–even difficult navigation–even if it is something both desire. Adjusting to someone else’s routines, habits, and life style is not always a seamless and easy proposition. In this episode, Alvean and Doug discuss the challenges and strategies for navigating them to help couples enjoy a smoother transition from single-hood to couple-hood. For a full transcript, click here: 63-Moving In Together
And Baby makes three, so the saying goes. That precious moment, however, is not without its challenges–especially for couples experiencing parenthood for the first time. It can elicit latent fears, create tensions where none existed before –interfere with careers, health and fray the edges of relationships, but it can also be the culmination of dreams, and blessing. Finding your way through the thickets is the subject of this episode–as Alvean and Doug talk about their own experience as Parents and offer some counsel for those awaiting or in the midst of parenthood for the first time. For a complete transcript, click here: 65-Parenthood
One of the more difficult behaviors to address in a relationship is the passive/aggressive partner. Communication with passive aggressive partners is ultimately a difficult proposition that stands everything on its head and if unchecked can lead to dissolution, a bad breakup or worse due to latent anger and its effect. In this episode, Alvean and Doug help listeners recognize the signs of this behavior and offer advice on how best to counter it in order to get to a healthier place. For a full transcript of the episode, click here: 68-The Passive-Aggressive Partner
Social Media is omnipresent in our lives and while it can help us maintain our involvement with friends and famil, it can also be a toxic wasteland spreading mis information and echoing unhealthy views or outright propaganda. In this episode Alvean and Doug talk about the ways social media bear on relationships and how to make the best use of the medium without undue influence or harm. Fir a complete transcript of this episode, click here: 64-Relationships and Social Media