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Podcast: Life Examined
Episode: Relationship skills: Couples counselor Terry Real on building a lasting partnership
Description: After 30 years of experience counseling couples, therapist Terry Real reflects on what makes building a long-term relationship difficult and the skills needed to keep a partnership intact. Reals says that even with changing dynamics and non-traditional partnerships, the age-old problems still exist.âDespite all of the gender fluidity and all of the experimentation, a two-person paired-for-life, monogamous core, is still alive and well and extremely difficult.âThe pressure is on to find that âperfectâ someone, yet, despite the romantic âidealizationâ of coupledom, promoted by a booming dating and marriage industry, the reality is that most couple...