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Marriage Therapy Radio

Marriage Therapy Radio

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Look... every couple struggles. You fight too much; you're bored; sex is either okay (or rare); maybe you're even considering divorce. OR... maybe your marriage is actually pretty good, but you want to go deeper. In this podcast, straight-talking marriage therapist Zach Brittle tackle the most common complaints virtually every marriage experience. Along the way, they reveal the science behind strong relationships and talk about what's really going on for couples. Topics include conflict, communication, compatibility, money, sex, in-laws, infidelity, time-management, future dreams, and more. If you want relief? A deeper connection? A new way forward...? Then you've got to find out what's REALLY going on in your marriage. That's what this podcast is about. You can learn more about Zach, and his alternatives to traditional therapy at marriagetherapyradio.com.

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  • Ep 447 How to Parent an Adult Child Who’s Stuck, with Kim and Tom Muench

    Ep 447 How to Parent an Adult Child Who’s Stuck, with Kim and Tom Muench
    2026/10/20
    Zach sits down with Kim and Tom Muench, married 34 years and parents of five kids who range in age from 21 to 39. Their story started before they did. Their parents were close friends who lived in side-by-side townhomes, Tom once babysat Kim and her younger brothers, and teenage Kim mostly thought of him as a dork. Years later, Kim moved in next door with her 3-year-old son, Nick, needed a date to her company Christmas party, and asked Tom. Six months later they were engaged. Tom’s careful plan (house in two years, baby two years after that) collapsed into a single year.From there, the conversation turns to how two very different parents raised five kids across three decades. Kim was 18 when she had Nick and 36 when she had Mia, their youngest, and she’s candid that she was a different parent each time. She read the books and chose to break from how she was raised: being grounded constantly as a teenager, she says, only taught her to lie until she could get out of the house. Tom was the provider and, by his own account, “the heavy,” the dad who said if you want a car, you get a job. They’re honest about the hardest stretch, too: rules that didn’t match between their house and Nick’s dad’s house, Tom knowing Nick was taking their liquor while Kim believed her son, and the call at 20 when Nick told her he couldn’t remember the last three days. Nick is 39 now and working his way back after a hard year, and Kim reflects on how different it is to face that with an adult than with a 21-year-old.The back half belongs to Kim’s work. Her book, Lost in Place, is a guide for parents of 18 to 30 year olds who aren’t becoming independent. She chose that phrase over “failure to launch” because if you’re lost, you can be found. She lays out the three things parents still control, her four Cs, and why this moment is so hard: screens, a generation that never socially recovered from COVID, high-potency marijuana, and parents who swung so far toward protecting their kids’ feelings that they can’t tolerate their own anxiety. If you’ve ever assumed parenting gets easier once they grow up, this episode resets that expectation and gives you a place to start.Key TakeawaysLittle kids are physically exhausting. Adult kids are mentally exhausting, because whatever illusion of control you had is gone.With an adult child, you control three things: how you show up, what you’re willing to provide, and how you respond to their choices.Stop trying to get someone else to do something. Focus on what you control, and the needle starts to move, slowly.Kim’s four Cs for showing up: clarity, calm, confidence, and consistency.Parenting from fear smells like control to your kids, and it breeds disconnection. Lead instead of control.If you want your adult child to follow through, model follow-through. Kids notice when your words and actions don’t match.Punishment can teach the wrong lesson. Kim’s constant groundings taught her to lie, so she never grounded her own kids.Two different parenting styles can work when you each know your lane and agree on the core values. In Tom’s words, “the same book, maybe a different chapter once in a while.”Guest InfoKim Muench (pronounced “Minch”)Certified parent coach (Jai Institute for Parenting, 2016) and founder of Real Life Parent Guide, based in Flower Mound, TexasCoaches parents of emerging adults, roughly 18 to 30, on communication, boundaries, and rebuilding trust, especially when mental health or substance use is involvedAuthor of Lost in Place: How to Support, Motivate, and Launch an Adult Child, and the memoir Becoming Me While Raising You: A Mother’s Journey to Her Self (2021)Runs a parent support group that meets twice a week, plus private coaching sessionsWebsite: https://www.reallifeparentguide.com/Instagram and TikTok: @kimmuenchparentcoachTom MuenchKim’s husband of 34 years and franchise partner at Expedia Cruises Flower Mound since 2017, after leaving corporate salesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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  • Ep 446 How a 45-Year Marriage Works w/Meg Staley and Jerry Gretzinger on Rules, Resentment, and Recovery

    Ep 446 How a 45-Year Marriage Works w/Meg Staley and Jerry Gretzinger on Rules, Resentment, and Recovery
    2026/10/13
    Zach has watched the People Make Games documentary about Jerry's Map twice, and cried both times. So when Jerry Gretzinger and his wife Meg Staley join him, almost 45 years into their marriage, he sets the map aside and asks about the two of them. They met in SoHo in 1979 when Jerry hired Meg to handle press and sales for a designers' co-op. She was 29 and newly sober. He was nine years older, divorced, and a father of two. They became friends, then business partners, and eventually built Staley/Gretzinger, a one-of-a-kind clothing line sold in Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's, and Bergdorf Goodman.Two designers in one small company meant they had to make rules early: whoever led a product line got the final say, and the other could only offer a critique. Meg calls marriage a system of agreements, most of them unspoken, that only get looked at when they stop working. Jerry is honest about how hard it was to hand Meg the lead design role in a company that started as his, and how a small product line of his own, maybe 15% of the business, eased the resentment. They talk about bedtime fights, a hard stretch with a teenage son that sent them into couples therapy, and how the 12-step programs they both work gave them a shared language. Jerry still remembers the first question of his fourth-step inventory: what was your mother's relationship with her family?The last third gets tender. Jerry describes sobbing over the documentary's comments every time a viewer mentioned the couple's affection. Meg explains why his "do something and see what happens" process drives her crazy in the garden, and why the move from their Hudson Valley community to the family farm in Michigan, a sacrifice for her, started the sweetest 10 or 15 years of their marriage. If you want to hear what long love looks like when two people have already done the hard work, press play.Key TakeawaysMarriage runs on a system of agreements. Most of them are intuitive, and you only examine them when they collide.When two strong people share one space, decide in advance who gets the final say on what. Then let the other person critique without taking over.Resentment often comes from feeling you have no control or agency. Carving out even a small area that is fully yours can ease it.Kids change how you use your time. What used to be "my time" now takes an agreement with your partner.Couples therapy can work by giving you practice talking to each other, so the communication carries on after the sessions end.Understanding your parents often means understanding how they were parented. The question "what was your mother's relationship with her family?" can open a lot.Small acts of care, like asking whether your partner is drinking enough water, are how couples protect each other day to day.A marriage lasts when the relationship matters more than either person alone, and both are willing to give up something to keep it.Guest InfoMeg Staley Colorist, printmaker, and clothing designer. Meg grew up in Bellevue, Washington, graduated from Smith College as a printmaker, and worked at Nordstrom before moving to New York to represent small designers, one of whom was Jerry. Together they ran Staley/Gretzinger for about 25 years, with coverage in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Elle, before selling the company. She now works as Meg Staley Handmade, making one-of-a-kind women's clothing, home goods, and commissioned legacy quilts from a family's own clothes, out of a studio in Cedar, Michigan, where she also hosts a women's AA meeting. She doesn't sell online. Website: megstaley.com Jerry Gretzinger Artist and clothing designer, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1942. Jerry studied architecture and liberal arts, served in the Peace Corps in Tunisia, and moved to New York in 1973, where he started a handbag company before co-founding Staley/Gretzinger with Meg. He is best known for Jerry's Map, an imaginary world he started as a doodle at a summer job in 1963. It has grown to more than 4,000 eight-by-ten-inch panels that keep changing according to a custom deck of cards. Website: jerrysmap.com Instagram: @jerrysmap_1963 YouTube: @jerrygretzinger9861 Facebook: jerrysmap1963The documentery film is found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N7B9b0GQMeg and Jerry have been married almost 45 years and live on their farm in Maple City, Michigan. They have four children: two sons together, plus Jerry's daughter and son from his first marriage.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    37 分
  • Ep 445 Low Desire, Low Testosterone, and Lost Pleasure w/Dr. Jenni Skyler and Daniel Lebowitz

    Ep 445 Low Desire, Low Testosterone, and Lost Pleasure w/Dr. Jenni Skyler and Daniel Lebowitz
    2026/10/06

    Zach talks with Dr. Jenni Skyler and Daniel Lebowitz, the married sex therapists behind the Intimacy Institute, and starts somewhere unexpected: their Sunday night calendar meeting. Before the conversation ever gets to the bedroom, Jenni and Daniel walk through the weekly check-in they swear by as parents of two boys, covering finances, kids' schedules, board meetings, and a bar mitzvah on the horizon. It's not sexy, Jenni admits, but she says it's exactly what clears her head enough to be present for the parts that are.

    From there, Zach brings them a pattern he's seeing again and again in his own practice: couples in their 40s, 50s, and 60s where she is waking up to her sexuality and he is coasting, happy with his garage and his sports and not all that interested. Jenni and Daniel lay out what they'd look for. They start with testosterone and move through resentment, an old affair that never healed, fear of his body failing him, and what Daniel calls a resistance to dreaming. Daniel's emergency brake image, where everything in a man's life carries just a little extra friction, is one of the clearest descriptions of low testosterone you'll hear. The couple also tells their origin stories. Jenni played Dr. Ruth to her friends and wrote her own Vagina Monologues piece in college. Daniel's grandmother asked about his sex life in front of his girlfriends, he lost his father when he was 7, and men's work led him, reluctantly, into sex therapy.

    The last stretch turns to pleasure itself. Jenni pushes back on the idea that we have to earn it, Zach floats a theory that people who struggle with pleasure in the bedroom might start at the dinner table, and Daniel shares a steak analogy that perfectly captures what performance anxiety does to sex. If your sex life has gone quiet, or one of you wants more than the other, this episode gives you a long list of places to look and a lot of permission to slow down.


    Key Takeaways

    • A weekly logistics check-in isn't romantic, but clearing the mental clutter of schedules and bills makes it easier to be present for intimacy.
    • Intimacy can work like a junk drawer: the unresolved dynamics in a relationship tend to end up there, which is why working on intimacy often means working on everything else.
    • Sex is often the symptom that gets a couple through the door, not the whole problem. The deeper work is usually underneath.
    • When a midlife man's desire drops, the causes can include low testosterone, resentment, unhealed betrayal, depression, trauma, or fear that his body won't cooperate.
    • Some partners stop hoping for a better sex life because it feels safer than being disappointed. "If I never get to go to Hawaii, then I won't miss it."
    • A man who has always been the initiator may freeze when his partner starts initiating, especially if he has quietly relied on planning ahead to feel confident.
    • You don't have to earn pleasure through suffering or productivity. Practicing it in everyday ways, like eating slowly or taking a warm shower, can make it easier to access in the bedroom.
    • Rules and performance pressure crowd out pleasure. When you're focused on doing it right, you stop noticing what you're actually experiencing.

    Guest Info

    Dr. Jenni Skyler

    Sex therapist and founder of the Intimacy Institute, which she started before she met Daniel. Its mission is "giving all people permission for pleasure." She hosts the Sex and the Psyche podcast and is active on social as Dr. Jenni Skyler (spelled "with an I").

    Daniel Lebowitz

    Sex therapist at the Intimacy Institute who focuses on men's work and masculinity. He has a master's degree in Latin American studies and planned to become a history professor. He later trained as a therapist and joined the practice. He's not on social media.

    Jenni and Daniel are married with two sons, ages 10 and 12. The Intimacy Institute offers clinical sex and relationship therapy, from brief solution-focused work to longer, deeper relational work. They also run private multi-day couples intensives built around each couple.

    website: https://www.intimacyinstitute.org/

    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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