Welcome to Episode 20!
Part 2 of the Jonathan and Naomi interview. If you haven’t listened to Tuesday’s show, you should probably go back and do that, because it will give you some more context for what we’re talking about today.
To refresh your memory, in the last episode, Jonathan and Naomi shared with us a challenge that seemed rather hopeless at the time.
Today we’ll hear about the structures they’ve put in place to keep their now happy family running smoothly. I know that “structures” sounds like a boring word, but trust me when I tell you, these are good!
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Welcome to Episode 19!
Our next two shows were a lot of fun to record. Jonathan and Naomi exemplify the professional urban couple. Jonathan is a startup founder with a long list of hits to his name, and Naomi is a pediatrician and a med school professor at UCSF who manages to both see patients, and publish academic papers. And they have two kids - which is really something to juggle.
So these shows are about parenting. They’re about hard times and good times, and incredibly well thought out time management tools for families. And we even manage to talk about how to still have sex when it seems like there’s no time for anything else anywhere!
We split their interview in two. In part one we hear about the challenge that almost broke these guys, and in part two we’ll hear about the incredibly effective time management tools I mentioned.
Enjoy the show!
Welcome to Episode 18!
Robin Rinaldi is the author of the critically acclaimed and very controversial memoire The Wild Oats Project, One Woman’s Midlife Quest for Passion at Any Cost. The book chronicles Robin’s story of exploring non-monogamy several years into an otherwise monogamous marriage.
Robin is a long time editor and journalist who has written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, O Magazine and many others. And she is also the managing editor for our very own Together Magazine - which is the sister magazine to this podcast.
On a recent trip to Los Angeles I sat down with Robin to discuss monogamy, polyamory, regret, and yes personal growth.
Robin’s story is a fascinating one, and in this episode we go far beyond her book and tread into the ever changing landscape of sexual morality. We’re lucky to have Robin here at Together; after this interview I think you’ll understand why.
Welcome to Episode 17!
We hear of lot of repeated advice about how we’re supposed to make our relationships work. You’ve got to communicate, you’ve got to build trust and develop teamwork - and you’re never supposed to go to bed angry for some reason.
One of the reasons we created this show is to explore what people really mean when they say these things. Trust, specifically, is quite tricky to pin down. Peter Pearson and Ellyn Bader - the couples therapists in episode 11 did the best job of giving us an academic definition of the term “Trust” so far; today’s couple–Cheryl and Tom Clifford–do the best job of exemplifying it.
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Annie and Bobby have been together since 1965. Their marriage is a success by any standard, but it’s amazing they found one another to begin with, because they as they say, they couldn’t have come from two more different worlds. Annie was raised in LA amongst the hollywood elite - in fact she still has the Oscar her daddy won sitting on their mantle at home. Bobby was poor, rural, and black. But they did find one another, and they fell in love, and as they said after the show - somehow they found the guts to be an interracial couple in the 60’s. Now, more than 50 years later they’re still together, and as you’ll hear on the show, they’re still very much in love. Though they wouldn’t make too big a thing of that.
Today’s episode is simply about reflecting on 50 years together.
With that, let’s go to Annie and Bobby Jones.
Welcome to Episode 15!
We passed 10,000 downloads last week, folks, and we’re growing fast! Thank you for listening! If you want to support us at this stage, please subscribe to us on iTunes and leave us an honest review. These are the two ways you can help out the most. Thank you!
Today’s episode is about balance. How do we manage all the passions and obligations and activities in our life? And how do we fit parenting into that already hectic mix?There may not be any one answer, but today’s couple has one good solution and they’re in the process of working out another.
Marie and Alexei can be found at their tattoo shop: http://rosegoldsf.com/, and at their jewelry boutique: http://fiatluxsf.com/.
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Welcome to Episode 14!
Part 2 of Akriti and Amandeep’s story. If you haven’t heard yesterday’s episode, you should probably go back and listen—it will give you some context for what’s going on today.
To refresh your memory, yesterday Amandeep and Akriti shared their story of merging their ideas of arranged marriage and love marriage. They also told us about their basic philosophy of bringing love and harmony to conflict situations.
Today we’ll get to hear how they actually deal with conflict as they share with us a fight they hadn’t quite resolved before coming in to record the show.
Let’s go to Akriti and Amandeep!
Welcome to Episode 13!
Today’s episode is the story of how one couple is navigating the challenges of merging two cultures and two forms of marriage into one life.
This is a two-part interview. In today’s episode, we’ll hear how this couple came together and what their cultural merger has looked like. In Thursday’s installment, these two share a fight with us that they haven’t quite resolved, and we get to see how they work it out - at least in part.
Let’s go to Akriti and Amandeep!
Welcome to episode 12!
Today’s show with Molly and Jason is about overcoming conflict by pure raw determination. Molly and Jason were married on the Today Show with Katie Couric, and by all measures, they had the perfect relationship. But what the cameras couldn’t pick up was the intense conflict going on below the surface. In this interview, Molly and Jason share with us what it was like to live that dichotomy, and also how they almost lost their marriage to unresolved conflict. It’s an intense episode, talking about a challenging time in the life of this lovely couple. No relationship is entirely free of conflict, but I’m happy to say these two have reached a point of ease with theirs. Let’s hear how they did it.
For more on Molly & Jason:
Molly's Website: www.MollyMouchka.com
Jason's Business: www.StarWaggons.com
We’re only releasing two episodes this week, and they’re related.
The first episode is part of an interview with a well known therapist couple, Dr. Ellyn Bader and Dr. Peter Pearson. In the therapy world, these two are celebrities. They created the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy—which is very highly regarded academically. But more importantly, these two are actually married to one another. They have a lot to say about relationships from both the personal and clinical perspective.
The second interview, which we’ll release on Thursday, is with another fascinating couple: Molly and Jason, whose life from the outside looks ideal, but privately they have faced challenges and conflict in their relationship that felt completely hopeless at the time.
We’re putting these two episodes together because they both illustrate the need to face conflict in a relationship directly.
You can find Ellyn and Peter at their website: www.couplesinstitute.com - they have lots of great information for couples on their site, and also provide referalls to couples therapists around the country.