I Think I Like You
I Think I Like You
When your marriage starts to shift in your early 40s | Ep 158
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In the last few years I've started to notice something in my peers, colleagues and clients who are a few years deeper into their 40s — and a few years deeper into their marriage and life as parents: Things are starting to crack and fissure. Things that were a whisper of an issue before are now all encompassing. But are these big, life-altering cracks, or obstacles meant to drive a couple into its next evolution? Not the easiest of questions to contemplate. Not the easiest of questions to answer.
I've been doing that work, asking those questions and surfacing those answers for years in my practice. I've now turned it into a formal program.
In today's episode I'm discussing:
- Why things start to stir in our marriages/long term relationships at this point in life
- The similarities I see between my single clients and married clients at this point in life
- Why women, at this point in their marriages, wake up to how disconnected they can feel to their partners — how their role embodies more of 'Director of Operations' than a wife, partner or individual
- Some ways to navigate next steps, if you find yourself in this season of life
Questions mentioned in podcast:
What version of myself am I missing right now?
What do I long to feel or experience in my days that I don’t have access to? What’s driving that?
In what ways have I been trying to get my partner to change — and what am I anticipating that change would do for me energetically, spiritually, emotionally? Is that something I could do for myself?
Podcast Production by James Jorge