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How do you know if she or he is the one? Is this true love or something else? Discovering the boundaries and qiualities of your relationship requires patience, insight and an open heart. Alvean and Doug offer some strategies for answering the question, what’s real in this episode. For more, click here: LL04
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The full title of this episode is Loving Relationships expand our hearts. Nothing could be more true. In this episode, Alvean and Doug talk from their hearts about their own experiences–how we can find a larger frame for our emotions and our care by building enduring relationships in life. For a full transcript, click here:LL03
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Who we choose as our role models speaks volumes about them and about us. In this episode, Alvean and Doug talk about their own experience and offer counsel on our choices. A full transcript can be found here: LL02
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Surely one of the most difficult traits to surmount is a passive/aggressive personality. Relationships require trust and honest communication to flourish. A passive aggressive partner presents a difficult challenge because avoidance is coupled with trust violating aggression. In this episode, Alvean and Doug discuss this trait and offer insights as to how best to cope when your partner acts in a passive aggressive manner. For a complete transcript, click here:68-The Passive-Aggressive Partner
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Among the many forces which can strengthen or torpedo a relationship, social media looms large as a potentially dynamic or destructive mechanism. In this episode, Alvean and Doug explore the ways in which social media can act as an amplifier or as a censor–instantiating not only your own feelings but those of others around you. For a full transcript of the episode, click here: 64-Relationships and Social Media
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It’s been said that parenthood is the last of the unskilled occupations. In truth, we are almost always unprepared for parenthood and the many changes it makes in the way we live, and in our relationships. In this episode, Alvean and Doug discuss many of this issues and help newly expecting parents or even those who are just thinking about having children to better prepare themselves for what may come. For a complete transcript, click here: 65-Parenthood
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That important moment where one of you moves in with the other can be a wonderful next step in your relationship or lead to difficulties down the road–even your eventual break up. Knowing how and when to make that move is critical. In this episode, Alvean and Doug explore the ways you can ensure a smooth transition and how to avoid the pitfalls of living with another person–even and especially one you love. For a full transcript, click here: 63-Moving In Together
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Perhaps you have heard about love languages before. In case you haven’t it is a way of characterizing the ways in which we express our feelings for another and how they show theirs to us. Are you someone that delights in doing nice things for your SO, or do you prefer tangible gifts? Alvean and Doug talk about the various ways in which we express our love and how to help align with your mate’s love language. For more and a full transcript:66-The Love Languages click here:
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Alvean and Doug take on a difficult topic–identifying traits that may make you an enabler of others’ bad behaviors or habits. It can be hard to tell the difference between tolerating and enabling, between acceptance and furtherance. For more about this episode, click here: 67-Are you an Enabler?
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Most of us have a preconceived idea of what kind of person would be our ideal mate–but often we settle for someone quite different. Are our projections unrealistic or do we find that what we thought might be essential isn’t really that important? To find answers to these and other questions about realtionships listen to this episode of LoveLife or read the attached transcript: LL62-Your ideal mate