42. Managing Stress in Your Marriage

Tess Connolly LCSW talks with Susan Gadoua, LCSW about managing stress within our marriages and partnerships. They talk about the different stresses that happen when our children go through their tween and teen years,  and how we can manage these in a healthy way that creates less stress within our relationships. 

• Susan talks about the work she does helping women who are divorced and couples that are struggling and need help to navigate during this time. She also talks about her three books that she has written and gives us a bit of information about their content.
• Tess and Susan talk about how marriages start to struggle through conflict that they find when children are entering their tween and teen years and what parents face and the different challenges that this brings along with it, within their partnership.  
• Susan talks about usual techniques that we can use to manage stress and she shares with us how stress isn't bad in itself but too much stress is bad and we need to be aware of how we are managing ourselves through these moments. 
• Tess and Susan discuss her technique of the 3 B’s. (Bandwidth, Boundaries and Bounty) They discuss these 3 B’s and how we can work through these within our partnerships when we are faced with challenges with our tween and teens. 
• Susan talks about her book that she wrote with Vicki Larson and she tells us about the seven alternative marriages that are explained within the book focusing on the three that are most pertinent for most people.  
• Susan talks about people knowing that they have a choice and to find choice where you can which helps us feel empowered. 
• Susan is most grateful for her resilience and her ability to get through challenges in life through gaining the tools that she has learnt in life.   

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