How to Decide If You Should Stay or Go in Your Marriage with Lindsay Dotzlaf
About this episode
This episode discusses how to decide whether to stay or leave a marriage, featuring insights from Lindsay Dotzlaf.
Have you ever been in something you care about deeply, whether it's your marriage, your career, or a long friendship, and quietly felt uncomfortable, like it was a sweater that no longer fit, but you weren't sure why or what to do about it? Almost anything we do for a long time will have a season, or more than one, that can feel like a grind. And of course that happens in marriage too. That's exactly what this episode is about: how to decide whether it's time to recommit or release, and the things to consider when you're not sure whether to stay or go. I'm joined by one of my absolute favorite humans, the brilliant Lindsay Dotzlaf, a master coach's coach who helps coaches master the craft of coaching, and the host of the Mastering Coaching Skills podcast. Lindsay originally explored this idea through the lens of business and a long-term career, and we realized it applies just as powerfully to marriage and any long-term commitment. We talk about putting the question "does this still work for me?" on the table, and talking about why we're often too afraid to even ask it. The drifting apart that happens when we stop turning toward each other on purpose, coming off autopilot to make…
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