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Marriage & Motherhood - How To Reconnect With Your Spouse After Kids
Motherhood changes everything, including your marriage.
If you’re a mom who feels stuck having the same arguments on repeat, disconnected from your partner, or like you’ve slipped into roommate mode filled with resentment and tension, you’re not alone and your relationship isn’t broken.
Welcome to The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast.
I’m Michelle Purta, mom of 3, marriage coach, and I help couples understand and shift the communication patterns that keep them stuck so they can rebuild connection, strengthen their partnership, and feel like an "us" again.
Each week, you’ll learn how to navigate marriage and motherhood with better communication, emotional awareness, and practical conflict resolution tools that actually work in real life.
We go beyond surface-level advice and focus on what’s really driving the disconnection like reactive cycles, emotional shutdown, miscommunication, and unresolved resentment.
This podcast is for couples who want to:
- break the cycle of repeating arguments
- communicate clearly without shutdowns or blowups
- resolve conflict in a way that builds connection instead of resentment
- move out of roommate mode and back into a connected partnership
You’ll learn the skills to shift your patterns, improve communication, and create a more connected, supportive marriage while you're knee deep in parenthood.
Because a strong relationship isn’t about avoiding conflict. It’s about knowing how to move through it together.
If you’re ready to stop having the same fight and start feeling like a team again, you’re in the right place.
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Marriage & Motherhood - How To Reconnect With Your Spouse After Kids
Ep. 306 - Making Hard Conversations Feel Less Heavy
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Discussing a difficult topic with your husband does not have to be heavy.
By the time many couples sit down to talk about a conflict, they have already replayed what happened, assigned meaning to their spouse’s behavior, and reached a verdict about who is right and who is wrong. The conversation feels heavy before anyone says a word.
In this episode, I share why the preparation you do before talking matters just as much as the words you eventually choose.
Tune in to hear me share:
- Why a serious topic does not have to create an emotionally heavy conversation
- How assumptions and unprocessed emotions add weight before the conversation begins
- How to separate the facts, the story, and your personal history
- The questions that reveal whether you are ready to talk
- A simple formula for opening a difficult conversation collaboratively
- What to do when your spouse still becomes defensive or shuts down
Conflict is inevitable, but arguing is optional. You cannot control your spouse’s reaction, but you can influence whether the conversation feels like an attack or an invitation to understand each other and solve the problem as a team.
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