Petra Bagust
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3,317 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Petra Bagust’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And sometimes, you know, when things are tough, they require more work and they require intent.
So I guess we've always had the intent thing.
and that we wanted to to make it work and and that's got us through the tougher times and now um i guess 35 years it's kind of well we've got this far as we'll keep going but also being prepared to keep listening and changing and and you know knowing the areas that are our work-ons and being honest with ourselves about that and i've certainly got got a few she doesn't have any though hey
Definitely not.
I love hearing you say the word listening and changing.
I don't know how many times I've said it, but Esther Perel is saying that most of us have three or four marriages in us and many people choose to do it with the same person, allowing the person you're married to to change and them allowing you to change.
That's right.
It's massive.
Yeah, and I think, you know, if I think of Libby and me now, we're different people from the ones who got married at 23, 24, and we've grown together and I guess listened to each other and wanted to make the changes so that...
their relationship could endure including through those pretty stressful times that come along and COVID was a great example and you know I wouldn't have got through that without a solid solid family and a COVID free home so I never you know COVID didn't get discussed and yeah so there was complete relief at home in terms of yeah that's right as much as it could be yeah yeah
Yeah, and just understanding and acceptance that this was what it was for the time being.
There's even humility, isn't there, in understanding that in this season of life, say, our marriage isn't very exciting or as easy as it has been.
Like I think of...
The idea that rather than letting the circumstance be, oh, well, it's hard right now, so therefore it's no good, to it's hard right now, can I hold on?
Can I turn towards the other person?
I wonder when there'll be a break in the weather.
Like I'm hoping for that down the road.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah and that's I mean that's just showing a level of kind of endurance and resilience that we might expect of ourselves and other aspects of our lives and there's no reason why we shouldn't apply that to our you know our intimate relationships and with our partner and
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