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What does “enough” love look like? Explore why healthy relationships don’t have to be perfect, how to embrace imperfection, navigate conflict, and find greater contentment by nurturing the love you already have. Discover the equilibrium of lasting love.
I’m Mindy Peterson and this is Lagom Life, your weekly dose of equilibrium.
Notes
- What does a healthy romantic relationship really look like?
- Why good-enough love may be better than perfect love.
- Letting go of unrealistic relationship expectations.
- How to find contentment in a long-term marriage.
- Why conflict doesn’t necessarily mean something is wrong.
- Choosing to nurture the relationship you have rather than searching for something better.
Connect/Other Resources
- Dr. Alexandra Solomon’s book, Loving Bravely
- My favorite quote from the book: “The happiest couples I know are the ones who are able to create and inhabit love stories that are good enough. Not perfect: good enough.”
- Abuse is never okay. If you do not feel safe, please leave and get help.
- Movie: Table 19 with Anna Kendrick
- Jamie Lee Curtis on the secret of her long marriage
- In addition to Loving Bravely, I’m a huge fan of working with a good marriage therapist, anything Terry Real (here’s a recent interview by one of my fav podcasters, Dr. Mindy Pelz), and my favorite marriage book ever, The Exceptional 7 Percent, by Gregory Popcak.
Question from a listener
Diane asks: How does an elderly person reconcile finding balance when you’re used to a more active life and entertaining a lot more and now in a point in your life when you don’t have the energy or the strength to do what you used to do? My mind still wants to do all these things, but my physical body can’t keep up. These activities are part of my identity and scaling back leaves me feeling out of kilter. I’m not succeeding very well in finding that balance between what I used to do and now only what I’m capable of doing. It’s frustrating to not be able to do what I love to do. Many of us are trying to find balance between what we want to do and what we’re able to do as we age. I would love to hear if any of your listeners have found their balance and how they managed it.
If you have input on this topic, please let me know! And if you’re in a different stage or season of life, I’d love to hear about it. What’s your biggest challenge when it comes to finding balance? Is there an area of life where you’re trying to figure out what “enough” looks like? And what would you like to hear us explore on this show? Your questions and experiences can help shape the conversations we have here. Let me know on email (mindy@mpetersonmusic.com), Facebook, Instagram, X, or LinkedIn.
Thank you for joining me on this exploration of living well, with just the right amount for the season of life you are in. To see future episodes, be sure to “Follow” the show in your listening app. Until next time, here’s to more moments of just-right.
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