We explore how to design a fair, secure-functioning relationship that protects both partners, repairs fast, and prevents repeated harm. Dr. Stan Tatkin explains why instinct fights intimacy and how governance, PEPPER, and daily presence keep love strong under stress.

• human nature as difficult and self-protective
• difference between difficult and too difficult
• clean repair and real apology without excuses
• attachment biology, pair bonding and threat memory
• the ick as a distancing threat response
• limits of labels and misuse on social media
• why “never again” fails and the value of yielding to reminders
• PEPPER prevention model and post-mortem revise
• social contracts, shared leadership and putting the couple first
• daily micro-connection and ongoing courting
• stop repetition of injuries with systems and agreements

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Dr. Liz Hale:

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We sit down with Susanne Alexander to explore unity as a daily practice and walk through research-based tools that help couples merge hearts and minds. Small habits, virtue-based praise, and playful rituals turn conflict into clarity and make friendship the backbone of marriage.

Susanne M. Alexander is a relationship and marriage educator, coach, author, and publisher with her company Marriage Transformation®, www.marriagetransformation.com. She meets with clients globally via the internet for relationship and marriage preparation and marriage strengthening. Susanne is certified to offer couples assessments and coaching through Prepare-Enrich® and for individuals with the Character Foundations Assessment™. She has completed Level 1 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Susanne has written or co-written over 30 books. Her most recent is “Growing Our Unity: 19 Vital Practices for a Thriving Relationship”, coauthored with Grant Peirce. Susanne is co-lead on Accordia Way, a project to assist couples with excellent communication and decision-making skills, https://accordiaway.substack.com/subscribe.

She is passionate about helping individuals and couples make good relationship and marriage choices through knowledge and skill-building and thereby prevent divorces. Susanne has been single, dating, engaged, married, divorced, and widowed. She is a child, stepchild, parent, stepparent, and grandparent. All of this has given Susanne a diversity of experience to share. She is originally from Canada and is married to a wonderful man named Phil Donihe in Tennessee, in the United States. They live on a lake and love to do romantic boat trips together that include nature photography.

• how lived experience shapes Susanne’s approach
• unity as a shared daily language
• 22 virtues that support connection
• Unifier 10 choosing to merge in a distracted world
• micro practices celebrations greetings and check ins
• bids for connection and sunset moments
• a commute tweak that transformed evenings
• rethinking conflict with the bowl method
• appreciation using virtue language to affirm identity
• laughter dates and rediscovering fun
• service balance and community ties
• friendship as the foundation for lasting closeness
• learning in action as a lifelong mindset

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Dr. Dave Schramm:

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http://drdavespeaks.com

Dr. Liz Hale:

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We explore how sexual intimacy becomes joyful and life-giving when anchored in self-honesty, personal responsibility and spiritual growth. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife shares practical ways to move beyond rigid roles, foster freedom and desire, and build a marriage that can hold two full adults.

• linking sexuality and spirituality as sources of joy
• defining intimacy as being seen and known
• reframing eroticism as life force, not performance
• spotting how roles hide the self and stall desire
• negotiating roles with honesty and responsibility
• understanding desire as freedom plus self-acceptance
• better advice for daughters than duty-based sex
• helping sons regulate desire without shame
• why intimacy feels risky to the ego
• becoming more truly who we are in love
• first steps for the stuck: curiosity over judgment
• resources to grow sexual and emotional intimacy

Jennifer's Website: https://finlayson-fife.com/

Podcast: https://www.finlayson-fife.com/podcasts

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/finlaysonfife/?hl=en

Visit our site for FREE relationship resources and regular giveaways:

Strongermarriage.org

Podcast.stongermarriage.org

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Dr. Dave Schramm:

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http://drdavespeaks.com

Dr. Liz Hale:

http://www.drlizhale.com/