Sep 23, 2026 · 31 min · 7 segments
A listener wrote in after last week's episode. He appreciated it but wanted the other side of the equation. His situation: he wants to do something with his wife that he considers well within the…
Mm-hmm.
And I'll, I'll throw a number out there in general just to say it's 10 gridlock issues.
And even if that marriage ends and a new one starts, there's still 10 gridlock issues.
They just may be different topics.
Yeah.
And so all the gridlock that we face is, again, like we mentioned earlier, just for anybody that might be new to Sexy Marriage Radio, it's where what I want is blocked by what my spouse wants, and it's always around an action.
Yeah.
We ... and we, we dig our heels in.
That's what, that's what we believe, and they're-
... two opposing viewpoints.
What trips us up the most is this idea of what I want is blocked by what my partner wants, so therefore, my gridlock mission becomes how do I get them to move-
Mm-hmm
Mm-hmm.
But th- what, what matters in all of this is realizing that all of the energy that we can often spend trying to get them how to change their position is not energy well spent.
Why is it not energy well spent?
Mm-hmm.
And I'll, I'll throw a number out there in general just to say it's 10 gridlock issues.
And even if that marriage ends and a new one starts, there's still 10 gridlock issues.
They just may be different topics.
Yeah.
And so all the gridlock that we face is, again, like we mentioned earlier, just for anybody that might be new to Sexy Marriage Radio, it's where what I want is blocked by what my spouse wants, and it's always around an action.
Yeah.
We ... and we, we dig our heels in.
That's what, that's what we believe, and they're-
... two opposing viewpoints.
What trips us up the most is this idea of what I want is blocked by what my partner wants, so therefore, my gridlock mission becomes how do I get them to move-
Mm-hmm
Mm-hmm.
But th- what, what matters in all of this is realizing that all of the energy that we can often spend trying to get them how to change their position is not energy well spent.
Why is it not energy well spent?
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