NTM 550: Parenting, Pressure & Protecting Your Partnership

In this honest, grounded conversation, we unpack what it really takes to sustain a long-term relationship through parenting, midlife shifts, sexual differences, resentment, novelty, and the quiet drift that can happen when life gets busy. We share personal stories from our own marriages - the escapes, the misunderstandings, the accountability, the grace - and explore how intentional action, communication, sexual intimacy, and self-awareness can transform a partnership from obligation back into choice. This is a conversation about choosing each other again and again, with freedom, truth, and depth.

In this episode, we discuss:

-The reality of long-term love beyond the honeymoon phase

-How parenting reshapes identity, intimacy, and friendship

-Why modern couples spend so little quality time together...and what that costs us

- The power of novelty in preventing complacency

- Grace as the glue in decades-long relationships

- Masculine accountability and moving out of resentment

- What happens when love languages don’t naturally align

- Why immediate action often creates more connection than endless planning

- Balancing personal freedom with relational responsibility

- Sexual intimacy as a sustaining force in long-term partnership

- When women have higher desire — and normalising that dynamic

- The difference between possession and conscious choice in love

- Self-awareness, capacity tracking, and ending people-pleasing patterns

- Making the most of fleeting moments of connection as parents

- Building trust with children while holding your own truth

- Why relationships require ongoing adaptation, not autopilot

- The transformative power of compassion, honesty, and consent

- Choosing your partner again; not because you have to, but because you want to

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