Do you ever feel like your spouse is constantly breaking his promises to you and your family? Are you tired of burning resentment and shouting matches about the importance of keeping his word?

Check out this comedy hour of role-playing that you will relate to, benefit from, and be entertained by — all at the same time! Each scenario is more hilarious than the next!

Thank you to improv comedians Casey Christensen, Taylor Loeb, Julie Mann, and Sigi Ravet for rocking your mustaches!

Some of Leah’s tips from the scenarios in this episode include:

• Never tackle issues in the heat of the moment.
• No accusations. Just calm expressions of your feelings.
  • Not “You never…”, but rather “I feel hurt when…”
• No drama. Drama is a roadblock on the path to solutions.
  • When you are calm you can consider how to approach your husband in a way most likely to succeed.
• Seek solutions as a team. When he invests in the solution, he will be more likely to follow through.
  • Come prepared with some ideas to jumpstart the process.
• Minimize the number of promises you solicit from your spouse.
  • Sometimes when we make our spouse promise, we set them up to fail. It’s better to ask that they try their best.
• Work on keeping your own word.
  • This will improve your spouse’s trust in you, as well as your own self-reliance, and by extension, your reliance on G-d. So it’s a win-win for all your relationships!

Try This at Home:

The next time you are tempted to solicit a promise from your husband, instead just ask that he try his best. He won’t have the pressure, you won’t have the expectation, and you both have avoided a potentially painful conflict.

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