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!
Episodes
44 episodes
Episode 16.5: Drea and Nate Leveling Up - Commitment
Anne and Patrick discuss how Drea and Nate demonstrate the relationship skill of Commitment. Healthy commitment in a relationship is about much more than just technically being together as a couple; it involves making conscientious choice...
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Episode 16: Drea and Nate - There and Back Again
Sometimes you need to leave home to find something that was close to you all along. Drea and Nate grew up in the same small town, and even were in the same grade in high school, but did not truly "find" each other until they went off to college...
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Episode 15.5: Earl and Meagan Leveling Up - Translating Understanding Into Support
Anne and Patrick discuss how Earl and Meagan demonstrate the relationship skill of Translating Understanding and support. All of us have collected useful tools over the years that we have been promised will help our relationship. Ho...
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45:40
Bonus: Love is in the Air
In this bonus episode, we hear from Elaine and Abe, a real-life couple in a "commuter marriage" (one lives in Texas, the other California) who also co-host the relationship podcast, Love is in the Air. Elaine and Abe share some great insights i...
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Episode 15: Earl and Meagan - Surviving Long Distance
When Earl transferred law schools he wasn't necessarily expecting to find his future wife, but it didn't take long after meeting for Earl and Meagan to go from classmates to soulmates. Despite their immediate connection, the two of them came fr...
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Episode 15
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Episode 14.5: Mike and Vauna Leveling Up - Showing Courage
Anne and Patrick discuss how Mike and Vauna demonstrate the relationship skill of Courage throughout their 38+ years of marriage. While many of us consider relationship courage only to really apply at the beginning of our relationship, it's act...
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Episode 14: Mike and Vauna - Four Decades Together (almost) and Still Growing
A chance meeting at a movie theater while at college has turned into going on four decades of marriage. Now married for 38 years, Mike and Vauna will readily admit that things were not always easy for the two of them. With Mike an ...
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37:46
Episode 13.5: Brian and Farina Leveling Up - Choosing Family
Anne and Patrick discuss how Brian and Farina use the relationship skill of Choosing Family to build their own family culture. All of us come from a different culture than our partner. While some relationship differences are more obvious ...
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Episode 13: Brian and Farina - Blending Cultures and Bucking Gender Norms
While Brian and Farina both grew up within 20 miles of each other in Maryland, in many ways they came from very different worlds. Brian, the grandson of a congressman, comes from a traditional suburban background. Farina, a Native America...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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Episode 12.5: Andres and Phillip Leveling Up - Deepening our Intimacy
Anne and Patrick discuss how Andres and Phillip use the relationship skill of deepening to increase their intimacy. Increased relationship intimacy is not something that just "happens," but is developed through a process that we need to conscie...
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41:24
Episode 12: Andres and Phillip - Making Your Own Template
As an interracial gay couple living in an extremely conservative state, Andres and Phillip don't exactly fit the stereotypical mold of most of the married couples that they see around them. But instead of spending too much time just trying to b...
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42:37
Episode 11: Meagan and Nick - This is our life now?
All relationships require sacrifice. Blending two lives requires give and take by both people to decide where to live, what Netflix shows to watch together, etc. When children are added to the equation, those sacrifices multiply seemingly expon...
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40:33
Episode 10.5: Melissa and Robert Leveling Up - That's a good question!
Anne and Patrick discuss how Melissa and Robert use the relationship skill of asking great questions in order to strengthen their relationship! Despite coming from extremely different backgrounds, Melissa and Robert's openness and honest curios...
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Episode 10: Melissa and Robert - Interracial Relationship in America
Melissa and Robert in many ways come from extreme opposite backgrounds. Melissa is white, Robert is Black. Melissa comes from an upper-middle-class upbringing in the suburbs, Robert comes from a poor upbringing in the city. Melissa's family mem...
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51:00
Bonus: Love in the Time of Corona - Is it time to put on your dance shoes? A look back and a look forward
In this final episode of Love in the Time of Corona, Patrick and Anne discuss the relationship challenges that we're likely to face as things start to open up again post-lockdown. When will things return to normal? Will they ever return to norm...
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32:35
Bonus: Love in the Time of Corona - Can gratitude change your life?
"Say thank you!" It's a phrase all parents tell their children countless times. It's been ingrained in all of us that saying thank you is a necessary part of being a good person. However, if our outward displays of gratitude never extend beyond...
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34:19
Bonus: The Man's Space - Be A Man! Men Don't Need Emotions, Right? Right???
Introducing, The Man's Space: a new recurring bonus series specifically geared toward what it means to be a man in a modern relationship. Society in general, and pop culture in particular, does not look kindly on the relationship s...
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42:20
Bonus: Love in the Time of Corona - Lean on me, when you're not strong. But don't lean too much!
Society has perpetuated this romantic notion that our partner needs to be our everything and our sole source of support and happiness. In practice, we all need a broad support network of friends and family to truly get the mental and emotional ...
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42:54
Bonus: Love in the Time of Corona - Are You Living With a Porcupine?
Has the emotional distress of living through a pandemic turned you and those around you into emotional porcupines? Do you find yourself unintentionally lashing out at your partner in ways that you don't normally do and vice versa? Has everyone ...
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37:04
Bonus: Love in the Time of Corona - Front Line Families
Is your spouse, partner, or another loved one on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic? Do you live with a medical professional, police officer, grocery store worker, or other essential worker who is putting themselves (and potentially you an...
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38:44
Bonus: Love in the Time of Corona - Adapt, Migrate, or Die
Anne and fellow therapist Shannon Tappana discuss how adaption and creativity can help us overcome our moments of fear, sadness, or just feeling "stuck." Especially now with our world sometimes feeling like it is falling down around us, our pri...
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39:04
Bonus: Love in the Time of Corona - The Grief Cycle
In this episode of the mini-series Love in the Time of Corona, Anne and Patrick discuss how the grief cycle is currently impacting all of us. No matter who we are or what our circumstances, we have all experienced some form of loss as a result ...
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