E4: Sean Foley - The One About Love PART TWO
01/22/24 • 23 min
Lauren’s partner, Sean Foley, returns to the podcast to answer a series of listener questions about his relationship with Lauren. Kicking off our conversation, we unpack the idea that a relationship is only as good as the person who cares about it the least in response to navigating what to do when one person wants to leave a relationship.
Next, we discuss the best place to look when you are in need of supportive advice and explore some of the things Lauren and Sean do to stay connected every day including daily check-ins at dinner time, weekly meetings, and more.
We touch on weekly date nights and Sean answers a few rapid-fire questions about his family life and what it truly means to him to be in an aligned relationship. Tune in today to hear all this and more!
Key Points From This Episode:
- Answering the listener question of how to reconcile when one is ready to leave.
- Understanding that a relationship is only as good as the person who cares about it the least.
- What is often behind wanting to leave a relationship.
- Lauren’s experience of shutting down in communication and how it is resolved together.
- The best person to seek advice from.
- Finding support in people who are for your relationship.
- How Lauren and Sean stay emotionally connected every day.
- Why Lauren and Sean do a weekly meeting.
- Daily check-ins at dinner time.
- How they prioritize financial planning together.
- Weekly date nights that they go on or stay in for once a week.
- Sean’s brother and the story of his high school sweetheart to whom he is married.
- What it means to Sean to be in an aligned relationship and what the word ‘aligned’ means to him.
- The value of finding what is truly important to you in an aligned and equally yoked relationship.
Quotes:
“A relationship is only as good as the person who cares about it the least.” — Sean Foley [0:02:24]
“Always providing support for each other is huge.” — Sean Foley [0:12:59]
“It should always feel safe, easy, and at home, that is what an aligned relationship means to me.” — Sean Foley [0:20:07]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Lauren’s partner, Sean Foley, returns to the podcast to answer a series of listener questions about his relationship with Lauren. Kicking off our conversation, we unpack the idea that a relationship is only as good as the person who cares about it the least in response to navigating what to do when one person wants to leave a relationship.
Next, we discuss the best place to look when you are in need of supportive advice and explore some of the things Lauren and Sean do to stay connected every day including daily check-ins at dinner time, weekly meetings, and more.
We touch on weekly date nights and Sean answers a few rapid-fire questions about his family life and what it truly means to him to be in an aligned relationship. Tune in today to hear all this and more!
Key Points From This Episode:
- Answering the listener question of how to reconcile when one is ready to leave.
- Understanding that a relationship is only as good as the person who cares about it the least.
- What is often behind wanting to leave a relationship.
- Lauren’s experience of shutting down in communication and how it is resolved together.
- The best person to seek advice from.
- Finding support in people who are for your relationship.
- How Lauren and Sean stay emotionally connected every day.
- Why Lauren and Sean do a weekly meeting.
- Daily check-ins at dinner time.
- How they prioritize financial planning together.
- Weekly date nights that they go on or stay in for once a week.
- Sean’s brother and the story of his high school sweetheart to whom he is married.
- What it means to Sean to be in an aligned relationship and what the word ‘aligned’ means to him.
- The value of finding what is truly important to you in an aligned and equally yoked relationship.
Quotes:
“A relationship is only as good as the person who cares about it the least.” — Sean Foley [0:02:24]
“Always providing support for each other is huge.” — Sean Foley [0:12:59]
“It should always feel safe, easy, and at home, that is what an aligned relationship means to me.” — Sean Foley [0:20:07]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
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Cristi is a global empowerment coach and author of the book, Chakra Rituals: Awakening the Wild Woman Within. She’s the creator of Soul Fire, a unique style of yoga that incorporates dance, meditation and mudra practices, and the co-founder of the Asia based Kirana Yoga School and US based Deep Exhale, a transformational experience merging breath, music & movement. Her book offers a seven-week program to guide readers through the ancient science of Chakras in an easy and accessible way to enliven and empower the reader.
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Identifying & healing your core wounds
How to reclaim your authentic voice
Her latest book and how it will change your life!
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E5: Christin Henke - Cultivating Female Friendships in Your 30s and Beyond
Nurturing platonic love is often overlooked and seen as less important than romantic partnerships. Today on the Aligned Love Podcast, Lauren’s best friend, Christin joins her to discuss cultivating female friendships in your 30s and beyond. Tuning in, you’ll hear all about the ups and downs of Lauren and Christin’s friendship, their relationships with each other’s partners, why they had to fight for their friendship, and more. We delve into how to navigate introducing partners into friendships before discussing disagreements in friendships. Lauren and Christin go on to share the importance of healthy boundaries, community and nurturing all relationships, and being in (platonic) love with each other. Finally, our guest tells us what aligned love means to her and reminds us to lead with love in everything we do. The bottom line of today’s episode is that we need aligned love in friendship too. So if you want to hear all about this beautiful platonic relationship and how to cultivate your own, press play now!
Key Points From This Episode:
- The importance of fighting for platonic relationships.
- Why we need aligned love in friendships as well.
- The dangers of jealousy when a friend finds romantic love.
- The difficulties of how to navigate introducing partners into friendships.
- Our relationships with each other’s partners.
- Finding the balance between advising friends against bad decisions and having boundaries.
- How to handle disagreements in relationships.
- What we have learned from our relationship with each other.
- Being in love with platonic friends and what we can learn from polyamory.
- The importance of community, nurturing all relationships, and leading with love.
- Christin tells us why aligned love is safety for her.
Quotes:
“A romantic relationship is not designed to meet all of our needs and the amount of intimacy and support and connection a person requires to be healthy and vibrant and fully expressed – is a group effort.” — @matchasnob [0:11:28]
“A lesson I’ve been learning is how – [to] continue really loving someone and not withdrawing from someone because our beliefs aren’t the same.” — @matchasnob [0:37:08]
“We don’t honor [friendship] the same way that we do partnership but [it] is a partnership!” — @matchasnob [0:48:07]
“Alignment and safety go hand-in-hand for me. Typically, the feeling of misalignment is the same feeling of threat or discomfort or disease or things that indicate to you that you don’t feel completely safe.” — @matchasnob [0:54:39]
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