Mali Apple and Joe Dunn - How to Initiate a Tough Conversation With Your Significant Other
My guests on this week's Best You Podcast episode are Mali Apple and Joe Dunn. Mali Apple and Joe Dunn are authors, relationship coaches, lovers, and best friends. In their award-winning book The Soulmate Experience: A Practical Guide to Creating Extraordinary Relationships, and their new book Wild Monogamy: Cultivating Erotic Intimacy to Keep Passion and Desire Alive, Mali and Joe share revolutionary ideas for keeping long-term committed relationships connected, fulfilling, sexy, and fun.
Check out the episode to learn more about how to initiate a tough conversation with your significant other, how to drop expectations when in a relationship, the importance of treating your partner as a guest in your life, the most important conversations couples should have before getting married, how to work through jealousy, and so much more.
(These timestamps are based off of the audio only version of the episode.)
03:30 What was your first dating experience like for you two?
04:16 What was so powerful about communicating with letters first and what did you guys talk about in those letters?
06:41 What are some of the most important things you need to agree with each other about in a relationship?
09:04 How much do you think it is important to have visual attraction early on in a relationship?
11:02 What does it mean to view your significant other as a guest in your life?
12:58 What do you guys do to develop your own identity while also developing together as a couple?
14:59 Where do you think insecurities in relationships come from?
20:48 What kinds of conversations are important to have with a significant other before you make a lifelong commitment with them?
23:02 What is your opinion on the prevalence of arguments in relationships and how to deal with them?
30:48 How do you guys define love and what are some of the key ingredients that you need for lasting love?
32:07 What was it like entering a new relationship after you already had kids and why did it work so well for you guys?
37:09 What are your most important relationship habits?
43:05 Mali and Joe's 3 keys to getting closer to their best relationship
46:59 What advice do you have about initiating difficult conversations with a significant other?
Mali and Joe’s 3 Keys to Getting Closer to Their Best Relationship:
1. Age well both physically and mentally
2. Laugh a lot
3. Have fun in discomfort
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