Parenting and Partnership

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

**Learn more about Dr. Jennifer's How to Talk to Your Kids About Sex Course HERE** When we need the validation of our spouse, we severely limit our ability to be collaborative partners and parents. Growth and collaboration require a willingness to set our egos aside enough to consider differing perspectives and uncomfortable truths about ourselves. When our ego runs the show, we care more about proving we are right than working together to find a shared solution. In this NEW conversation with Crystal of The Parenting Coach Podcast, Dr. Finlayson-Fife discusses how we can create healthier, more collaborative partnerships even when our partner is not invested in creating positive change. Listen to the full episode to learn more about: * Resentment and what it can teach us * The power of gratitude * Navigating disagreements with wisdom and maturity *The problem with validation seeking * Improving relationships unilaterally * How to talk to children about sexuality / pornography You can learn more about Crystal HERE.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Conversations with Dr. Jennifer, a collection of interviews on the topics of relationships, sexuality, and more, all featuring Dr Finl and Fife.
0:28.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the podcast today. I'm super excited to bring you a topic that has been coming up over and over again in coaching calls with my own clients and this is our relationship
0:35.2	with our partner and our parenting affects the relationship with our partner and a relationship with
0:39.3	our partner affects our parenting and they both just really go hand in hand and so I wanted to
0:44.4	bring on an expert that can talk to us about this and I'm super excited to bring
0:48.4	back to the podcast Dr Jennifer Finless and Fife and I will have her introduce herself.
0:53.2	I'm Dr. Jennifer Finleson Fife. I got my PhD in counseling psychology and I work with a lot of
0:59.3	Latter-day Saint couples around improving the intimacy and emotional and sexual
1:06.8	intimacy in their marriages and how to help people kind of develop in
1:11.4	their sense of self.
1:12.8	And so this, I've done quite a bit of work
1:16.1	because of that on helping parents know how
1:18.7	to talk to their kids to help their kids be more prepared for and capable of an intimate partnership and intimate marriage.
1:29.0	So I primarily work with adults, but I work with adults around how to parent around some of these issues too.
1:36.4	Okay, I love that and we're definitely going to dive into that as well because I have some questions around that.
1:40.8	So let's get into partner relationships and then we'll also
1:44.6	dig into some parenting and teen healthy sexuality stuff as well. So first of all,
1:51.6	having worked with so many couples over and over and over again what are kind of the top few things that you see are kind of the biggest struggles when it comes to having a healthy relationship.
2:01.0	I think what interferes with our ability to create a marriage and a relationship
2:06.4	that's collaborative and that feels like a sense of place of freedom has to do with our struggle to handle our sense of self without
2:17.8	validation from our partner and that may seem like what are you talking about?
2:23.1	But what I mean is we often are looking to our spouse
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