What if you didn’t wait until something was wrong to give your relationship some attention?

In this episode, I’m sharing the relationship practice my partner and I have been implementing and benefiting from for some years now: regular check-ins.

Not a relationship “performance review”. Not an opportunity to unload every frustration you’ve accumulated. And definitely not a conversation designed to prove who is right.

Instead, it’s a regular space to pause, reconnect, notice what’s working, talk about what isn’t, and compassionately exchange insights.

I’ll walk you through the principles that make these conversations feel safe and constructive, as well as the questions we use to open up deeper conversations about love, resentment, roles, emotional needs, hopes and the life you’re building together.

The magic isn’t necessarily in asking the perfect questions.

It’s in creating a relationship where you can keep asking them.

So if you’re in a relationship you want to protect, understand and keep growing, this is a conversation worth coming back to.

Connect with Zoe:

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Free Relationship Resources: https://zoecox.com.au/free-resources/

*In this episode, Zoe specifically references the first resource, called 'Determining Your Emotional Needs & Values - An Explorative Task'

Link to Zoe's Tedtalk: Sustaining Intimacy through parenthood

Layers of Love is produced on the lands of the Gundungurra and Wiradjuri people. We pay respect to their unique and diverse cultures and to elders past, present and emerging.