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The Pilot’s Wife - Long-Term Relationship Tips With Amy McLaren
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Welcome to the Pilot’s Wife Podcast! This is a show for anyone who wants a happy and satisfying marriage. Learn from and with Amy McLaren, marriage educator and wife of jet pilot Joshua McLaren. Both Josh and Amy have been running non-religious marriage education courses for over 14 years, and have had to overcome more than their share of challenges. Inside each episode, Amy shares her biggest ”ahas” and proven relationship enrichment tips with complete honesty.
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#58 The First Step To Breakthrough
6 déc. 2024 · 12 min
In the previous episode, Amy gave a technique for how to resolve a glitch in the give and receive cycle in marriage using a discussion structure. Is talking about it still not working? In this episode Amy offers a deeper, but still simple, way of getting breakthrough in some areas that seem pretty…
#57 Take Care of Your Sources
29 nov. 2024 · 12 min
In our lives we have sources of income, sources of food, sources of security and so on. Our marriages are also a source, and the benefits we receive from our marriage rely on a reciprocal cycle of give and receive. But what do we do when it feels like we're always giving but the other person…
#56 The Definitive Guide to Marriage for Engaged Couples
22 nov. 2024 · 21 min
What even is marriage? From this episode, engaged couples will understand better what they are signing up for, and a thing or two about trust, including how to improve how much they can trust their future spouse not to hurt them in future. Plus, a story or two from a pilot's wife's world.…
#55 Interview with Peter and Annika
15 nov. 2024 · 32 min
"You're going to be married forever so you want it to be good if that's the case." "Sometimes we've already decided in our mind what that person's already thought, or what their conclusions are. We actually haven't asked them." Annika and Peter work together as Pastors of a successful local church…
#54 - How I Make Myself Happy These Days
8 nov. 2024 · 15 min
It's super important to be happy in your marriage. You can and should be happy in marriage not because your marriage is good but because you are happy and have mastered the art of being happy. How do I do that when I constantly have to pick up after people, do more than my fair share of washing,…
#53 Psst Here Is the Secret Fast Track to Winning at Marriage
1 nov. 2024 · 18 min
(Or, The Questions You're Allowed to Ask.) This one thing, if you practise it, can make all the difference between a bickering, arguing and unhappy relationship, and a satisfying and happy one. Mastering this one skill is worth millions in what it can do for the world! It's probably not what you…
#52 Interview with Ockie and Yolandi
24 oct. 2024 · 31 min
"It's very much a mindset thing." "There is a solution to every problem. You should not give up!" Yolandi and Ockie climbed out of a rough place in their marriage to a place of high satisfaction and enjoyment. Today they are generously sharing how they did it. Listen in on a come-back journey that…
#51 If Marriage Is A Game, How Do I Win?
17 oct. 2024 · 13 min
After a looong break, the Pilot's Wife is back, and so excited to be recording again! We're doubling down on happy marriage vibes today. The topic: the game of marriage.
#50 Special Guest - Josh The (Currently Not A) Pilot
4 avr. 2021 · 25 min
With much awaited anticipation, Amy today welcomes her husband Josh as a special guest on the Pilot's Wife show, for the 50th episode. Hear his perspective on the three things he notices most in couples and their relationships. Amy and Josh also talk about the one thing they would say (if they…
#49 How To End Up With A Lazy Spouse
21 mars 2021 · 13 min
Have you ever wondered how you (or someone you know) ended up with a lazy / bossy / controlling etc partner? Here's one way it could have happened - but if this is the way it happened, the good news is, it's reversible. Find out how in this latest episode.
#48 Assertiveness: The Clean Truth About a Dirty Word
14 mars 2021 · 16 min
Has anyone ever told you you're too assertive, or not assertive enough? There's a certain connotation from the word that makes it a dirty word in romantic relationships. Amy shares the true definition of assertiveness to remove all doubt and explains how to set the scene to exercise some level of…
#47 Free time: Chilled Beats, and Bystanders
6 mars 2021 · 14 min
Take a chill break from whatever you are doing, and have a listen to this chilled "free time" chat from Amy McLaren on a couple of relationship musings. Amy takes a social psychology phenomenon to do with crowds, and wonders if the same thing doesn't happen even when there's just two, not even a…
#46 A Shout Out To My Joshy
25 févr. 2021 · 16 min
Sometimes, we don't give each other enough credit. This episode is about correcting that. Hear a little bit about Josh & Amy's biggest conflict area in their marriage and how it has been working out during this time, when this area of their marriage has been under the most intense pressure in all…
#45 Two Simple Things To Transform A Relationship
19 févr. 2021 · 15 min
Has anyone ever asked you the rhetorical question: "What did you expect?" with the meaning that you shouldn't have expected anything other than what you got? In this episode Amy invites couples to actually seek the answer next time someone asks them that. And she invites the male listeners to go…
#44 Non-Verbal Communication Hacks
11 févr. 2021 · 18 min
A whole lot of our communication is non-verbal. When we are having a heated discussion, the non-verbal stuff actually blocks the real message getting through. This is often why the argument goes around in circles without getting resolved: because the real message isn't getting through. Amy gives a…
#43 Movies Can Save Your Marriage
6 févr. 2021 · 7 min
In this episode Amy has been digging around, and found some research from a few years back about an unconventional method for preventing divorce. http://www.rochester.edu/news/divorce-rate-cut-in-half-for-couples-who-discussed-relationship-movies/movie-list.html
#42 A Secret Skill For Happy Relationships
29 janv. 2021 · 19 min
In this special episode, you will get probably the one and only opportunity for you to be a fly on the wall within one of Amy's private couples counselling sessions. Amy goes through some of the values exercise material in a different way to usual, and explains a key concept in maintaining a…
#41 A Hidden Bonus For Us Relationship Ninjas
20 janv. 2021 · 12 min
There are obvious benefits to working on our relationship skills, primarily being happier and enjoying our life much more when our marriage is doing well. There are also some hidden benefits to becoming relationship ninjas too. Amy highlights one benefit that contributes to a lasting legacy we can…
#40 How To Stop A Relationship From Going In A Downward Spiral
13 janv. 2021 · 20 min
Happy New Year! If you're anything like Amy, you've experienced a number of relationships around you, maybe including yours, suffering from some kind of argument or tension over Christmas. It brings about the topic of when relationships feel like they are going in a downwards spiral, how to…
#39 Let's Not Argue This Christmas!
16 déc. 2020 · 11 min
Amy and Josh don't argue too often, but every couple has their hiccups. Amy has decided to have a break from arguing at all over Christmas - and has come up with a strategy she is going to try out. She invites you to partner with her in trying this method and explains how it would work. This is…