403: Marriage Gets Better With Time: Communication, Parenting & Partnership | Chris LeVeque
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What are the main topics introduced in the beginning of the episode?
biggest misconception people have about our relationship from the outside looking in.
Probably that it's all smooth sailing. Because it's not. No. It's hard. There's a lot of women who have run their own businesses with their husbands and those couples have had to go their separate ways. The stresses of working together or even that dynamic really puts a lot of strain on the adult marriage relationship.
And what do you think is the secret to a marriage that actually gets better over time?
It's like they don't need a critic. They need a cheerleader. They don't need a lawyer unless you are one.
If you could change anything about my personality, what would you change about how I work?
You're listening to Be Well by Kelly Levesque. Hey,
everyone. Welcome back to the Be Well by Kelly podcast. In today's episode, I'm welcoming back the dad, Bob, my husband, Chris Levesque. What's going on, babe?
Not much. Happy to be here. Excited to do this again and answer questions, chit chat, have some fun.
You're a really nice soft start after back to school night.
Yes. This morning was crazy, but I did get to shower and shave, which feels good.
How do Kelly and Chris describe their marriage and parenting roles?
I feel fresh and I'm wearing my hokas. So I'm like two inches taller than everybody else, including myself from yesterday. So we're feeling good. Oh, you're looking good.
Well, as you know, this is a audience podcast, so I have a bunch of questions for you. And so we'll just jump right in.
Cool.
The audience wants to know, how do you two actually divide up responsibilities at home and how do you decide who does what?
On the fly. Well, the division of labor, as you well know, is non-traditional in the sense that you are the mostly working parent and the breadwinner. and I am the stay-at-home and house manager. However, you're better at a lot of mom things, traditional mom things, trad wife things, I guess is the lingo these days, or just being more emotionally available and patient with the kids. So a lot of things that... would normally fall into my category, you still do. And there's things that the trad dad or the traditional dads do that I still do. And we kind of divided up, I think, Yeah, I don't want to say on the fly, but it's a little bit ad hoc. It's not like set in stone. And there's definitely like last night, back to school night, you know, our time alone was the 20 minutes between that thing ending and getting home to relieve your parents of watching The Boys.
And it was like dividing up how today was going to go and how tomorrow is going to go. Like, it's almost like instead of looking at it as... I'm always in charge of X, Y, and Z. It's like, what are the next three days and how do we tackle those days together? I guess that's the way I see it because I feel like putting it all on my plate or your plate just isn't the way our life is because some days you are at home shooting recipes and there for the kids for an hour or two that someone who works in an office isn't. And so then you're like, oh, I'll go and run and do this with them and pick that up. And if we were more rigid about those roles, it wouldn't allow us that flexibility. The downside of that is that it's, you know,
Less structured and a little hectic. Yeah, a little bit of a blank show sometimes where we're both looking at each other of like, whose job is this? You know, but I think we do a pretty good job of working through that. And I would say we make no more mistakes, quote unquote, than any other parent in terms of, oh my gosh, we missed, it's like red shirt day at school. Like, do we have a red shirt? I don't know. We don't. We don't, you know. I think that happens to every family regardless of what the traditional roles are. So how do we balance it or how do we divide it? Like I said, I think it's, I look at it more as like three days out. Yeah. And then bigger stuff longer, but it's like, as opposed to, you know, we both still,
we'll pack lunches if we need to.
Yeah, but I feel like we've kind of gotten into a groove of certain things being like you manage and handle, like whether it's like signing the boys up for sports, making sure you got their uniforms, if they need cleats or whatever, like you're like all sports dad and handling that it feels like.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the main topics introduced in the beginning of the episode?
0:00–1:28
2
How do Kelly and Chris describe their marriage and parenting roles?
1:28–5:31
3
What strategies do they use to balance work responsibilities with family life?
5:31–10:53
4
How do they approach raising three boys and fostering independence?
10:53–35:41
5
How do they support each other as partners while managing busy schedules?
35:41–58:44
6
What core values are they trying to teach their children at this stage?
58:44–1:07:50
7
What communication practices keep their marriage strong over time?
1:07:50–1:21:29
8
What advice do they give for building a marriage that improves with time?
1:21:29–1:28:31
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