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28. And Baby Makes 3: How Not to Hate Your Partner After Having Kids
Stethoscopes to Swaddles Podcast
English - July 12, 2021 09:00 - 38 minutes - 71.3 MBParenting Kids & Family motherhood parenting worklifebalance balance momguilt pandemicparenting selfcare timemanagement Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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We are all in the same soup and there are 2 sides to every fight
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse:
Criticism, Defensiveness, Contempt, Stonewalling
How to Fight:
Calm down by self soothing
Compromise
Repair- words, jokes, gestures
Apologize
Explain what was difficult
Ask for forgiveness
Listen
Process and understand fights
Fight fair
Ask for help- communicate
Ask for what you DO NEED
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