Making Love Today

Let's talk about making love! We know that building the fulfilling and deeply meaningful long-lasting relationship that you crave involves a lot more than just what happens in the bedroom. On Making Love Today we talk with real couples about their relationship journeys and hear about the strengths and skills that they have developed to help their relationship grow stronger. Additionally, marriage therapist Anne Brown shares her insights on how we can apply the lessons learned from our guest couples in our own relationships. Our podcast's mission is simple: help all of our listeners learn the tools that they need to go out and make love in their lives!

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Episodes

Episode 7: Chad and Sunnie - Custody Battles, Miscarriages, and Being "Monogamish"

Some couples make life look like it's a walk in the park. Chad and Sunnie are definitely NOT one of those couples. Having faced custody battles, nine miscarriages, and the general difficulties of life together, these two have not let challenges push them apart. In fact, they are about as good of an example as you'll ever find of a couple who has grown closer through adversity. Chad and Sunnie first met while they were both married to other people, but it wasn't until they were both divorced that...

Mar 09, 2020•43 min

Episode 6.5: Josh and Megan Relation Strengths - Enjoying and Engaging in Physical Touch

Anne and Patrick discuss how Josh and Megan demonstrate the relationship skill of enjoying and engaging in non-sexual physical touch. Anne discusses how what many people refer to as simply being "touchy-feely" is actually a relationship strength. She breaks down why this strength is important and how we can develop this skill in our own relationships, even if it's something we are currently not comfortable with. For a more in-depth explanation of this skill and more suggestions on how to incorpo...

Mar 04, 2020•40 min

Episode 6: Josh and Megan - Two years apart can't keep them apart

Who would have thought that anything good could come out of working in a call center? What Josh and Megan initially thought was just a college job to pay for books turned into much more as it laid the framework for their future life together. Going on near two decades together as a couple, their time together has not all been... well, together. Apart for two years with very limited communication early on, these two were somehow able to make their relationship flourish and thrive, building a foun...

Mar 02, 2020•41 min

Episode 5.5: James and Liza Relationship Strengths - Building a Shared Culture

Anne and Patrick discuss how James and Liza demonstrate the relationship skills of developing shared family rituals and building and reinforcing shared values. For a more in-depth explanation of these skills and more suggestions on how to incorporate them into your own relationship check out makinglovetoday.com. Relationship Challenge of the Week: Identify your own family or personal rituals, whether they be daily, weekly, monthly, etc. Think about how your shared values enter into those rituals...

Feb 26, 2020•36 min

Episode 5: James and Liza - Finding Your Why

When you and your partner you both have challenging careers and live several hours apart from one another, how do you make a concerted effort to maintain and build a close connection? For James and Liza, the answer is to be deliberate about everything that you do and focus on personal growth over relationship growth. This couple doesn’t take anything for granted, especially their relationship with one another, and so they work every day to be the best version of themselves, for the other person....

Feb 24, 2020•37 min

Episode 4.5: Joe and Stephanie's Relationship Skills - Asking for and Giving Support

Anne and Patrick discuss how Joe and Stephanie demonstrate the relationship skills of asking for support and supporting personal growth. For a more in-depth explanation of these skills and more suggestions on how to incorporate them into your own relationship check out makinglovetoday.com. Relationship Challenge of the Week: Use the Gottman method of asking as outlined in the episode. First, identify a specific need that you have. State that need to your partner in a neutral way. Then, ask your ...

Feb 19, 2020•43 min

Episode 4: Joe and Stephanie - Love at first... height?

Just entering the teenage years of parenting, Joe and Stephanie share relationship wisdom that comes from nearly two decades together, while still being in the thick of parenting themselves and discovering new things about each other along the way. Listen in as these two describe how they've overcome initial challenges such as conflict resolution styles and overall methods of viewing the world, to facing current obstacles of Stephanie going back to school and the additional burden that places on...

Feb 17, 2020•36 min

Episode 3.5: Camron and Christa Recap - Overcoming Together and Being Separate While Connected

Anne and Patrick discuss how Camron and Christa exemplified the relationship skills of overcoming together and being separate while connected. For a more in-depth explanation of these skills and more suggestions on how to incorporate them into your own relationship check out our blog at makinglovetoday.com. Relationship Challenge of the Week: Think of a challenge you and your partner face. Just one to start with. Consciously choose to approach it as something to overcome together. If you are cur...

Feb 12, 2020•33 min

Episode 2.5: Jamie and Mikey Recap - Resilience and Receiving Influence

Anne discusses how Jamie and Mikey demonstrated the relationship skills of being resilient and receiving influence. For a more in-depth explanation of these skills and more suggestions on how to incorporate them into your own relationship check out our blog at makinglovetoday.com. Relationship Challenge of the Week: Write down 5 things that you can do to become more emotionally self-sufficient. These should be completely independent of your partner. After you write them down, pick one and do it....

Feb 12, 2020•22 min

Episode 1.5: Erica and Spencer Recap - Being Considerate and Ongoing Investment

Anne breaks down the relationship strengths of being considerate and putting an ongoing effort into the relationship. She explains how Erica and Spencer demonstrate both of these skills, and how we can apply them in our own lives. For a more in-depth explanation of these skills and more suggestions of how to incorporate them into your relationship check out our blog at makinglovetoday.com. Relationship Challenge of the Week: At some point during this next week, take a moment, stop, and ask yours...

Feb 12, 2020•26 min

Episode 3: Camron and Christa - Miscarriage, lost jobs, and... big shirts?

How do you go from being on the path to divorce to not being able to imagine life without one another? Well for Camron and Christa, their surprising answer was to have a baby! While they admit that’s not the best advice for everyone, it worked for them but maybe not for the reasons you’d think. These two show how a rough start to a relationship can eventually serve as a rock-solid foundation for later success. While the saying might go that opposites attract, it was Camron and Christa’s similari...

Feb 10, 2020•40 min

Episode 2: Jamie and Mikey - High School Sweethearts

If you’ve been together (almost) continuously since high school how much does your relationship really change over time? If you’re Jamie and Mikey, quite a bit it turns out. In this episode, these two high school sweethearts discuss how their relationship has grown and changed from one stage of life to the next. While both natives of California, that’s about where the similarities of their backgrounds end. Mikey comes from a large, loud, welcoming Argentinian family while Jamie comes from a quie...

Feb 10, 2020•37 min

Episode 1: Erica and Spencer - Life With 11 Kids 11 and Under

Eleven kids eleven and under, all under one roof! In this episode, Erica and Spencer discuss finding love after loss, how to be considerate of your partner, and the logistics of maintaining and growing a loving relationship while raising close to a dozen kids together. After both having lost their first spouses, Erica and Spencer met on an online support group for widows and widowers. What started out as providing mutual support through tragedy eventually turned into love. Having now been marrie...

Feb 10, 2020•36 min

Episode 000: Introducing Making Love Today

Jan 20, 2020•3 min

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