Relationships; we can’t live with them, and we can’t live without them! Yet our expectations for our romantic partners can be unrealistically high. We expect our partners to be our best friend, our trusted confidant, our passionate lover, the father/mother of our children, our financial security, our sense of identity and the ultimate source of our happiness. No wonder more than 50% of marriages end in divorce, as we have pretty much set our partner up for failure! How do we get past this?

Steven biography:

Today’s guest is Steven Dromgool, the Clinical Director of Relate, a specialist relationship service. Over the past 2 decades Steven has travelled the world, training under renowned relationship experts, including John and Julia Gottman. His training coalesced into the development of Presence Oriented Relationship Therapy – an advanced integrated approach to working with couples. Steven has a special interest in preparing couples for healthy relationships and affair recovery, and will help us bust common relationship myths in today’s episode.

In this episode, we really dive deep into answering the following thorny questions:

2.34: Why did Steven become a relationship counsellor?
4.30: Why do more than 50% of relationships end in divorce?
7.40: Why being in the honeymoon phase of a relationship is similar to being high on cocaine? 9.50: Why expecting Love in marriage leads to relationship failure?
12.04: How does what feels familiar from our childhood determine the type of love we look for? 15.00: Why do couple struggle for power against each other after the honeymoon phase?
17.20: What can you do to work things out once you realise your partner is very different from you? 19.15: Why do most people choose to get into dysfunctional relationship?
21.25: What are the two main attachment styles and how it manifest in the relationship?
27.30: How do you reduce miscommunication?
31.00: How long should you wait before you resolve a conflict?
34.40: Why do people have affairs?
35.28: What is the first step to recovery after an affair?
41.04: What do you do in the first 2 weeks after learning that your partner had an affair?
43.50: What is the one question you can ask your partner to get them to work on the relationship 50.50: Why does becoming a parent change the relationship dynamic
52.20: How to make your relationship exciting and recreate that honeymoon spark again
57.50: What is Stevens one wellbeing practice

Learn more about Steven here:
https://www.relate.kiwi/
https://www.facebook.com/RelateProject/

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