Rituals

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality

4.2 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This episode explores the importance of rituals in relationships, emphasizing how they create trust, connection, and predictability between partners. Whether it is daily acts, like greeting each other after work or having a bedtime routine, or larger, less frequent traditions, like weekly date nights, annual celebrations, or even rituals for personal space. Without these conversations, there an be an unspoken expectations around rituals that can create frustration and misinterpretation in relationships. In the episode, we talk about topics such as: Defining Rituals & Their Purpose Unspoken Expectations Types / Frequency of Rituals Actionable Steps and more! Give Me Discounts! Prolon - Visit ProlonLife.com/IDO to claim your 15% discount and your bonus gift. Amazfit - Visit www.amazfit.com/IDO to get 10% off Cozy Earth - Visit Cozy Earth to get the comfiest sleepwear and sheets on the market! Use code “IDO” for 40% off. Spark My Relationship Course: Get $100 off our online course. Visit SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock for our special offer just for our I Do Podcast listeners! If you love this episode (and our podcast!), would you mind giving us a review in iTunes? It would mean the world to us and we promise it only takes a minute. Many thanks in advance! – Colter, Cayla, & Lauren Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.3	and I'll sing this some more traditional values, so we didn't move in together until we got married.
1:02.8	And I remember those first few weeks of marriage as we established our rhythms and rituals together.
1:07.9	Some we had to talk about and decide on together.
1:10.3	You know, are we going to sit down to
1:11.7	eat at the same time? What's the rule around phones or the TV during dinner? My family often ate
1:17.2	with the TV on, but I'm not sure if that was good or not. Others seemed a bit more obvious,
1:21.8	like saying good night and exchanging a quick kiss before we fell asleep. And I remember one night when I was reading on the couch, and I noticed it was 9.30,
1:29.0	and I hadn't heard from my wife in a while.
1:30.7	I went back to our bedroom and found that she was already asleep.
1:34.2	And not like she had fallen asleep while reading, like in her pajamas, already brushed her teeth,
1:39.2	lights off under the covers.
1:41.0	She decided to go to sleep and never came out to say good night to me.
1:45.4	Just like, didn't matter. So I went to bed, angry. Another rule that we had learned about at our
1:51.6	wedding that was apparently going to be broken just a few weeks into our marriage. And when we woke
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