Welcome to Season 4: The BEST one of ALL!!!

Feeling like roommates or wrestling with resentment in your marriage? 

Discover how to rekindle an insanely fun and intimate partnership with actionable strategies in every episode.  After a six-month break filled with family milestones and personal growth, I'm back with a fresh perspective and a streamlined approach. 

This season promises simplicity and focus, ensuring you'll get top-notch marriage tips and intimacy resources straight into your busy life.  I’m bringing my BEST content here and into my upcoming book, offering you valuable insights without the hassle of a group settings.

In a few short months, I'll be a certified RLT coach, and I’ll share how this method tackles the resistance to using relationship tools, creating thriving partnerships. 

I'm also thrilled to collaborate with a marriage researcher to discuss exciting, research-backed ideas in each episode. Tune into special bonus episodes all week to meet my special friend and co-host. Can't wait to dive into this exciting content with you!!

If you are interested in couple's coaching, please email me at:  moni@monicatanner.com.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Hello and welcome to the Secrets of Happily Ever After podcast. This is the first episode of season four and I am so excited to be back. Last spring I meant to take a few months off to enjoy my family for the summer, which turned into a six-month break, and now that my oldest son is off in college, my oldest daughter is winding up her senior year in high school. We've gotten through high school volleyball and moved on to high school basketball with my second daughter, and my middle schooler is done with optimist football, which means I have a whole lot more time on my hands with Optimist Football, which means I have a whole lot more time on my hands. So I couldn't be more excited to restart this podcast, as I have missed showing up every week with marriage tips and intimacy resources for you. Now, in my extended break, I've been thinking of all kinds of ways that I could improve this podcast so that it would be a really helpful resource for you, and I've learned so much in the process. So if you're new here, welcome. If you're married and maybe you're not feeling as connected as you'd like, maybe you feel like roommates or resentment has weaseled its way into your relationship and you're ready to kick all that to the curb and enjoy an insanely hot and fun, intimate friendship and passionate partnership, then you're absolutely in the right place. If you've listened to this podcast before and you're curious about what right place. If you've listened to this podcast before and you're curious about what season four has to offer. Thank you so much for returning and giving me your time. I promise to be mindful of your busy life and give you actionable tools and takeaways with every single episode.

Speaker 1: 2:02

So one of the biggest things I learned over the break was that simple is better. I let my business get too big and too complicated, with too many things fighting for my attention and too many places to show up to be able to do anything to my best abilities. So I've shut down all of the superfluous programs, especially the Passionate Marriage Club. Many of you really benefited from this monthly membership that I used to run and I got so many kind messages once I announced that I was shutting it down. So, to those of you who were really helped by this program, thank you for your generous messages. I will be using those as testimonials on my website, with your permission, and I will be sharing the information that I shared in the Passionate Marriage Club in these podcast episodes and in the book that I'm writing. So that content hasn't gone away, it's just going to change forms, because I've learned that married couples don't necessarily like to talk in groups about the things that they're going through. However, I know that they will read books, so I will try to distill all of that content into a well-written manuscript and we'll see where that journey takes me. So for now, the Passionate Marriage Club is closed.

Speaker 1: 3:35

I will be creating content for this podcast, a very small amount for social media. I'll be showing up in your inbox with important information and I'm coaching couples. In the next couple months I'll be getting my certification from the Relational Life Institute as a certified RLT coach and as this season of the podcast progresses, you'll learn more about RLT and why it is far superior to traditional individual or couples therapy. I have seen this method transform relationships, taking them from on the verge of ending to flourishing, and from good to phenomenal. I've seen couples do the work that literally creates the relationship that they always dreamed of having. One of the biggest differences and I will do an episode outlining all the differences between RLT and traditional couples therapy but among one of the biggest differences that I have seen is that traditional therapy gives you tools, but RLT deals with the parts of you that doesn't want to use those tools. So if any of the tools that you gain, either from this podcast or from doing couples work, are going to be effective, you have to learn how to access the part of your brain that will actually use those tools. You can have all the tools in the world, but if you don't know how to use them and you don't want to use them, they are basically useless. So that's what I've been learning how to do and I'm so excited to offer it.

Speaker 1: 5:23

I've also partnered with one of my favorite marriage researcher buddies to bring you lots of fun content for this podcast. I thought it would be fun to bring in a co-host for you, so I have lots of episodes coming up with a good friend and I'll introduce you to him in the next episode, so stay tuned for that. And I'm basically going to be giving you tons of tools and content for how to get more of what you want in your relationship, because nobody wanted to get married, to live as roommates or resent or wish they were in a different circumstance. I'm going to teach you how to work with the partner you've got and how to know if it's time to move on. And at the end of every episode I will invite you if you want to go deeper, even if your partner is reluctant, to work with me one-on-one in marriage coaching. Even in a couple of sessions you will see massive changes in the way you relate to each other.

Speaker 1: 6:28

So if you're interested in working with me one-on-one, just email me at moni M-O-N-I at monicatanercom. Let me know if you're interested in coaching and we can do a 30-minute free session to make sure we're a good match to work together. If not, we're a good match to work together. If not, I can refer you out to several vetted professionals Working with me. It looks like you and your partner will fill out a simple intake form and then we'll work together for a period of about three months and in that time you will see massive changes in the way you relate to your spouse. So thanks again for clicking on this first episode of season four of the Secrets of Happily Ever After podcast and stay tuned for awesome episodes coming your way weekly, and I can't wait to hear from you. Take care and I'll see you here same time, same place next week and, until then, happy marriaging.