Connecting Couples

Marriage Maintenance: Episode 2- Assessing Yearly Events

How do you and your partner ensure that yearly events in your relationship go as smoothly as possible? From the fun things, like your wedding anniversary or birthdays, the boring things, like taxes and planning, and even the sometimes hard things like life events you grieve each year or places where your negative cycle shows up around annual events. In this second episode of the Marriage Maintenance Series, Chad and Angela give examples of the importance of conversations around yearly things and cue up a topic for you and your partner to discuss. 

For more information about Chad and Angela, visit their website at: www.therealimhoffs.com

 

Marriage Maintenance: Episode 1- The Assessment

The Real Imhoffs shift gears a little in this series to cue up conversations that are preventative in nature. Just like a vehicle needs proactive care, like oil changes and tune up, marriages that take the time to 'tune up' have the best chance at running the most efficiently and connected. Join Chad and Angela in this first episode of the Marriage Maintenance Series as they share a few examples from their own relationships and also encourage you to have a conversation with your partner where together you assess areas you already do well and areas you'd like to give attention to.

For more information or to contact them, check out: www.therealimhoffs.com

 

Sick At Home: Episode 4- Being Cared For

When you get sick, can you let your partner know what you need or how you prefer to be cared for? When your partner gets sick, do you feel you have a good idea of how to the best caregiver? In this final episode of their series "Sick At Home", the Imhoffs cue up a conversation about sharing how you feel and what you need in times of sickness. Being sick or having a sick partner creates enough distress on its own, trying to have the conversations then can often be trying, but talking about them ahead of time and making a plan give you a chance to have less conflict when sickness happens. Check it out. 

For more information about Chad and Angela, check out www.therealimhoffs.com

 

Sick At Home: Episode 3- Tendencies While Sick

Sometimes the best way to know how you will responds is to review how you have responded. In this episode of their "Sick At Home" series, Chad and Angela encourage a conversation about how you and your partner have typically responded to each other when one of you gets sick. Has it been a good experience, or is their room for improvement, not only on the part of the caregiver to show empathy and show up for the sick partner, but also for the sick partner to share what their needs are? Check out this discussion about "Tendencies While Sick."

For more information about the Imhoffs, go to their website: www.therealimhoffs.com

 

Sick At Home: Episode 2- What You Learned

In this episode of their series about being 'Sick At Home', Chad and Angela cue up the conversation for couples to talk about where they learned how to be sick. Sounds weird, but the reality is that we all learned patterns from our family of origin about not only being sick, but also how to respond when those around us are sick. Can you remember a time in your childhood when you or someone in your family got sick? How did it go? Where you a good patient? Were they a good responder? Maybe you got messages that it is better to power through and not be over imposing, or maybe you had a mom made the best chicken noodle soup and comforted your soul the whole time. The point is, can you talk about how those memories influenced how you and your spouse now respond when one of you is "Sick At Home"? Check it out.

For more information about the Imhoffs, check out www.therealimhoffs.com

 

Sick At Home: Episode 1- COVID Positive

In this new series Dr. Chad Imhoff and his wife Angela discuss how the interactions between couples play out when one partner gets sick. In this first episode Chad shares his process of getting a positive COVID test and encourages couples to have an important conversation about how to respond if one of you gets it. They encourage discussing what the logistics will be, like how you quarantine and how do you get groceries and who do you tell... and also- in true "Connecting Couples'" fashion, they encourage you to have a conversation about your emotional needs as well. If you have fear or anxiety or other heavier emotions- it can be tricky to bring up when you are already not feeling well. The Real Imhoffs set you up to have a real conversation about COVID and make sure you ask the right questions. Check it out.

For more information about Chad and Angela, check out www.therealimhoffs.com

 

The Beginning: Episode 4- What Comes Next

This is the final installment of their series that has taken a look back at The Beginning of the journey for Chad and Angela as they experienced learning about emotion. In this episode, the Imhoffs check in with you about how all this stuff is landing for you, and also lay out a clear structure of how to get the most out of these podcasts. They even explain here their website name "The Real Imhoffs" came from. Check it out. 

For more information about Chad and Angela, check out www.therealimhoffs.com

 

The Beginning: Episode 3- Angela's Journey

Headed in to week 3 of The Beginning- the Imhoffs explain their first experiences with EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy). This week we hear Angela share her side of their journey through understanding emotions in a new way. Unlike Chad's initially cognitive approach, Angela was hit pretty early on with the realization that emotions were not something she understood. Check out Angela's perspective as a 'feeler' and pretty assertive pursuer as she discovers the part her emotions had been playing in her life. 

For more information about Chad and Angela, check out: www.therealimhoffs.com