Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Romantic Relationships? What You Need to Know to Build the Marriage and Relationship of Your Dreams with Lindsay Roth
12 Feb 2025
This episode is brought to you by Blueland, Fatty15, and Ollie. When it comes to happiness in relationships, we often overlook the daily effort and tools needed for true intimacy. Instead, we focus on the romanticized end result, without fully understanding what it takes to create lasting success. Today’s guest is here to dispel common myths and share the key questions and practical tools that can help us build stronger, happier relationships. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru sits down with his good friend and author Lindsay Roth to explore the key ingredients of strong, lasting relationships. Lindsay shares the journey that led her to write a book on relationships, the top things that destroy them, and the simple yet powerful questions you can ask to strengthen your connection with your partner. She also explains how rituals and routines can deepen intimacy and why scheduling intimacy can actually relieve stress and pressure in a relationship. Dhru also reflects on the lessons he's learned about maintaining open communication and vulnerability in his own relationship. If you’re looking to reignite and recharge your relationship, this conversation is for you! Lindsay Jill Roth is an award-winning television and live-events producer who has created and developed a wide variety of programming globally, including original content for NBC, BET, ESPN, Food Network, Billboard, The Masters, The Grammys, The Tonys, and the US Open. She is the former producer of Emmy-nominated Larry King Now and the creator and executive producer of Haylie Duff’s Real Girl’s Kitchen. She is also the author of the novel What Pretty Girls Are Made Of. In this episode, Dhru and Lindsay dive into: What actually makes us happy? (00:25) Being proactive in relationships (05:07) The top thing that destroys a relationship (13:26) How to improve your relationship (16:56) The power of routines and rituals (25:57) Asking intentional questions to strengthen connection (29:20) The origin story of Lindsay's book (41:20) Showcasing strengths, fostering belonging, and confronting weaknesses (52:36) Understanding how you argue and apologize meaningfully (56:54) Intimacy—discussing and scheduling sex (01:11:18) Routines to deepen intimacy between partners (01:15:30) Final thoughts (01:26:50) Also mentioned in this episode: Romances & Practicalities: Lindsay’s Book For more on Lindsay, follow her on Instagram, LinkedIn, and her Website. This episode is brought to you by Blueland, Fatty15, and Ollie. Get a clean home while keeping a clean planet with Blueland. Right now, get 15% off your first order by going to blueland.com/dhru. Fatty15 is offering an additional 15% off its 90-day subscription Starter Kit. Go to fatty15.com/dhru and use code DHRU to replenish your C15 levels for long-term health. Want to give your dog the best in clean eating? Take the online quiz and introduce Ollie to your pet. Right now, Ollie is offering 60% off your first box of meals when you subscribe today! Just head to Ollie.com, use the code DHRU and you’ll get 60% off your first box of meals in your subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Lindsay, welcome to the podcast. I want to read you a pretty wild headline, an article from MSNBC from 2023. Okay, bring it on. Title, an 85-year Harvard study found the number one thing that makes us happy in life And it helps us live longer. So then the article continues. I'm going to read this and I want to get your reaction to this.
So backstory in 1938, Harvard researchers embarked on a decades long study to find out what actually makes us happy in life. The researchers gathered health records from 725 participants from all over the world and asked detailed questions about their lives at two year intervals.
contrary to what you might think audience it's not career achievement it's not money it's not exercise or a healthy diet although i'm a fan of those things the most consistent finding over this 85 year harvard study one of the longest running studies in the history of america and the world
The most consistent finding they learned was positive relationships keep us happier, healthier, and help us live longer, period. What do you have to say about that?
I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised. I just wrote a book on how to achieve healthy, lasting love. And I spoke with many experts, many couples, many people who have all validated this fact that finding people that you're comfortable with and happy with, and you feel you're authentic self with, that's what makes you happy.
It goes back to that, you know, when you see people's tombstones, do you write your work title on your tombstone? No, you write about your spouse or your family or the life that you lived. That's what's important. You know, I want to be one of those people in life. I want to be married for like 65 years and I want someone to ask me what the secret to my healthy, happy, long life is.
And I want to be able to answer that it's positive relationships and ice cream. You might not approve of the ice cream thing.
Hey, I'm all about ice cream. If you tolerate dairy, go to town. Maybe just make a grass-fed dairy when you can. Yeah, of course.
Actually, whatever high-end ice cream keeps us alive. But I 1 million percent believe that headline.
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