Investing in your relationship for 2020
This close to the end of 2019, today’s podcast had to have a new year focus! However, what this episode isn’t about is setting ourselves up to fail with unrealistic New Year Resolutions – that list of things that that we think we ought to do rather than realistic plans for real change! What we […]
Happy Stressmas!
It’s beginning to look a lot like Stressmas! Will it be a ‘Merry Little Christmas’, will it be a ‘White Christmas’ or the ‘Nightmare before Christmas’? According to the movies and songs, this should be the most wonderful time of the year, but it can in fact be one of the most stressful times of […]
Infidelity – why can it happen when we don’t think it’s right?
Following Michaela’s interviews on several BBC Regional Radio stations, we thought we’d reflect on the tricky subject of infidelity and the findings of a morality survey conducted by the BBC which found that 3 in 5 adults (60%) who say they have been unfaithful to their partner also say it’s never acceptable to cheat. So […]
‘Happily Ever After’ – Part 2
Last time, we looked at this fairy tale phrase ‘Happily Ever After’ to understand what comes to mind when we think about the word marriage and if it is a Disney-like experience. Today we delve into the specifics of happiness in the ‘happily ever after’ of real life. Is constant happiness actually possible, can we […]
‘Happily Ever After’ – Part 1
In popular Disney stories and fairy tales, ‘Happily Ever After’ always comes at the end of the story, when the villains have been defeated and every time, it seems that the couple are finally married and enjoy a very ‘Instagrammable’ style of wedding! So, what are the perceptions’ of modern culture regarding the ‘happily ever […]
“I wanted to be married first, but I’ve ‘compromised’”
Following on from an email we received from a listener, we are speaking very specifically today about the actual ‘M’ word (rather than referring to the name of our podcast). The title of today’s podcast is a quote from her email – do you also share this view, that if you’ve moved in with your […]
