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Dr. Tracy and Greg discuss how the transition to back-to-school can impact relationships and offer strategies for couples to navigate this period.

Back-to-school season is full of advice about helping kids transition, but what about helping your relationship transition too?In this episode, Dr. Tracy and Greg talk about the September shift: the moment summer ends, routines return, capacity drops, and couples start feeling more reactive, less patient, and less generous with each other. What can look like a relationship problem may actually be a capacity problem, a logistics problem, or an old pattern that stress has made louder.Together, they explore how back-to-school stress, mental load, activities, lunches, schedules, and fewer margins can land directly on your partnership. They also talk about how to make the invisible visible, sit down as a team, protect small rituals of connection, and ask better questions before resentment takes over.Because this season is real. Your capacity has changed. And your relationship may need a little more care, curiosity, compassion, collaboration, and connection as you move through it together. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Looking for a therapist in Canada? Check out our practice at iwtherapy Be Connected — 24/7 relationship support, including Dr. Tracy AI trained on Tracy's clinical work. Get…

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Host: Dr. Tracy

Guest: Greg

Topics covered

• relationship dynamics
• back-to-school stress
• communication
• capacity issues
• couples therapy
• mental load

Keywords

• marriage
• September shift
• stress management
• couples connection
• relationship support

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Organizations: iwtherapy

Products: Be Connected

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