Modern take on relationships in 2022. Hosted by Allen Wagner, a licensed marriage and family therapist who has been a top couples counselor and relationship coach in Los Angeles for almost 20 years. He has co-authored the book, Married Roommates, and has
This episode, addresses, age differences, and dispels some misunderstandings about this, as well as offers insight into what people should really be looking for in compatibility.
This episode addresses patterns that form in relationships and ways this can lead to discontent or resentment. It offers tools and insight into ways couples can break free.
This episode talks about the trends in parenthood, but also addresses conflicts people have, and whether or not to have children. It offers insight into the pros and cons of both, and hopefully can lead to thought-provoking conversations between couples.
This episode addresses difficulties people have after having a baby and ways this can impact are moody and lead to depression. It offers solutions, and advise.
This episode, addresses emotional affairs, and ways they can happen. It discusses the symptoms, and how couples can make changes in how they interact with one another. It offers tools and suggestions to better see the good in people in all settings.
This episode addresses the difficulties of power struggles, and the importance of a unified approach, regardless of the status of the parents. It discusses why sometimes it's hard to stay consistent, but also offer solutions, and ways couples can look at the bigger picture.
This episode addresses, the benefits of therapy and the strengths people can gain from exploring themselves and developing insight and learning from the past.
This episode, addresses pressure in different areas of our relationships. It normalizes feelings people have, but also offers suggestions for people to better receive support and regulate.
This episode addresses, difficult separations and divorces, and the impact they can have on people after our relationship ends. Not just the couple, but children as well.
This episode address is loneliness. People are feeling, both single people and in relationships. It validates feelings and offers explanations, but also tools people can use to change their situation.
This episode addresses difficulties couples have in balancing their lives and ways this can cause conflicts but also loneliness and hopelessness in partners. It offers tools for couples
This episode addresses the importance of keeping your word, being reliable and working on trust. A lot of couples struggle with planning and working together. If one person does not do what they say, a whole plan can come crashing down. It leads a partner to feel alone. This episode gives tools and insights on ways people can improve this.
This episode addresses difficulties, people have with assertiveness and negatives associated with passivity. It looks at the root fear, but also solutions so people can live the life they want.
This episode addresses long-standing resentments people have in relationships. It discusses how it can happen and also offers solutions on ways people can put the past behind them.
This episode, addresses, parenthood, and ways it can impact our sex lives. It offers solutions and tools, and insight into the importance of maintaining this part of the relationship.
This episode, addresses difficulties, parents face with their first child and insecurities they have. It addresses fears and ways. Sometimes the people in our lives, or even media can amplify these fears unnecessarily. All families are different, and all children are different, including ones from the same family. We have to respect, that other people will do things differently, and also trust that, regardless of when people hit milestones, all of our children will eventually be able to walk, talk, and use the toilet. Competitiveness makes it hard.
This episode addresses trauma and the many ways it impacts relationships. It offers understanding, as well as tools for couples.
This episode addresses the current economy, and loss of employment of a partner. It offers tools and suggestions, as well as empathy and a way forward.
This episode addresses gratitude. We all have the ability to look at the glass half empty, but it targets a lot of areas where we should also highlight where the glass is half full and make sure that we are appreciative and empathic to the people who don't have what we have, but also to be optimistic, and grateful for what we do have.
This episode, addresses second marriages, or stepchildren in general. It talks about the importance of defining roles, avoiding, splitting, and maintaining trust between a couple. There are common things that happen as families blend, and it offers tools and suggestions for couples.
This episode discusses the dangers of putting our grievances in print and speaking stream of consciousness, with a paper trail. It addresses the ways these things can linger for years as people can hold onto them, and continue to look at them.
This episode addresses moving either in the same city, or potentially to other cities, and a lot of common concerns that arise from this. It offers tools and great ways to start conversations.
This episode addresses the importance of interpersonal support systems and couples friends. It talks about the difficulties, but also offer some tips. People sometimes outgrow their friends in some ways, and it's important to surround ourselves with people who are in our same life situations.
This episode addresses the changes that have gone on in the world over the last few years and difficulty people have and being happy for one another but also difficulty people are having, and what they choose to share with the people in their lives and empathy for the fact that people in their lives may not have the same positives going on for them.
This episode addresses pregnancy. It talks about the process, and the changes that will occur in a relationship. It also gives advice on ways couples can avoid predictable, conflicts and drama and work better together.
This episode addresses the impact of narcissism on relationships, and also offers some psychoeducation on narcissism.
This episode addresses the development of personal insights, growth, and changes we can make to better control the future of our relationships.
This episode, addresses, struggles people go through in unhappy marriages. It talks about the pros and cons of staying together for the kids, but also what's in the best interest of children.
This episode, addresses second marriages, and coming out of a bad marriage, as well as figuring out who you are, and how you want to spend the rest of your life.
This episode, addresses difficulties, people face as a relates to appropriate boundaries in certain environments. It talks about how sometimes people can date, their friends, colleagues, or classmates and potential consequences around this.
This episode addresses the progression people make as they move forward from dating to a more permanent state. It talks about the difficulties, people face in each part and illustrates some areas where people feel unsafe.
This episode addresses the holiday of Valentine's Day, and peoples different feelings about it. It does address the importance of celebrating our partners, whether it's on this day or not, and the ways people often drop the ball. It offers solutions for people and suggestions.
This episode addresses the difficulties, people face in transitioning from friends to lovers. It normalizes concerns, but also provides solutions and tips.
This episode addresses the different types of long-distance relationships, and healthy ways couples navigate this. It offers tips on what couples can look out for and practice to make things better.
This episode addresses the ways we come from different backgrounds, and the adjustments we have to make to create a common culture within our relationship. It addresses a lot of different things that make us different as people, and ways we can work with this to help all of us grow, and hopefully become more complete ourselves.
This episode addresses, the impact weather can have on all of us, but also the opportunities it can present us
This episode address is sex, and the importance of it in relationships, but also reasons why people struggle. It offers solutions as well as normalizations. It discusses the barriers and ways to break through.
This episode addresses being in long-term relationships of more than 10 years. It addresses difficulties, people face, but also looks for solutions and ways. People can still connect even after all these years.
This episode addresses a common issue in couples. It talks about changing previous habits and behaviors, and the difficulties people face after being in long-term relationships, and feeling stuck that their partner is not evolving.
This episode addresses fears people have around commitment in long term relationships and also addresses the misconceptions and positives that come from healthy relationships. It primarily addresses men.
This episode, addresses, communication, and ways that can be ineffective as well as effective. Address is the importance of intimacy and ratios of positive to negative.
This episode, addresses New Year's resolutions and future promises we all make. It talks about how things can go, wrong, and why, but also ways we can make this more successful, and the positives associated with self growth.
This episode addresses the steps that happen after a couple becomes engaged. It talks about some of the pitfalls, but also offers solutions and suggestions for important conversations prior to telling family and friends, and also after the wedding plans are in motion.
This episode addresses the difficulty people sometimes have in making the adjustments from being a child into being an accountable adult. It explains some of the reasons why this happens, but also offers tips and tools to make changes.
This episode addresses, the impacts, finances and economic instability can have on relationships. That normalizes, fear and paralysis, while providing tips and encouragement for ways, people can still move forward, and be more optimistic, and adapt.
This episode addresses changes that occur in long-term relationships and ways it can lead to a disconnect between partners. It offers explanations, but also solutions.
This episode addresses being single at the end of the year. It provides insight, strategies and tools to make changes. It's not an easy time but people are not alone.
This episode addresses illnesses, and the impact it has on relationships. Whether people are in long-term relationships or new relationships it is important to be clear on expectations, as well as how we can nurture the people we love. Unless we talk about these things, most people operate on the ways that make them feel better without truly understanding that people are different.
This episode addresses the importance for couples to get out of their element and spend time with one another alone. For people in new relationships, it can be a great opportunity to really get to know a person in a different way, and to start to build memories, and for people in existing relationships, it's a great opportunity to change their frame of mind, dress up and be the people they used to be.
This episode addresses gifts during different phases of relationships. How this affects people on other than giving and or receiving end, but also the meanings and ways we can better understand one another and what makes us happy.
This episode addresses rejection in partnerships. It talks about different types of rejections but specifically sex and the impact us can have and how people feel about themselves and their relationship.