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Love Shack Live: Helping Couples Rescue Their Relationships
Relationships are complex. They are filled with ups and downs, highs and lows. And sometimes, it can feel like you're struggling just to keep your head above water. If you're feeling like this, then it's important to reach out for help. That's where Tom and Staci Bartley come in. As relationship experts, they have helped countless couples overcome the challenges that they're facing. And now, they're here to help you. The Love Shack Live Show is filled with advice and tips that will help you get your relationship back on track. So if you're struggling in your relationship, make sure to tune in, it could be the best decision you ever make.
Episodes
281 episodes
#281: How Defensiveness Breaks a Relationship Down, Piece by Piece
Your partner finally tells you that something you do hurts them. And before they even finish, you're already explaining. "That's not what happened." "That's not what I meant." "I never meant it that way." "Well, you do it too."T...
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#280: What to Do When Your Partner Says They Need Space
Met the right person, check. Got married, check. Bought the house, check. Had the kid, got the dog, put up the picket fence out front. Check, check, check.And then years in, somebody says, "I need some space. I can't do this anymore....
#279: Should I Stay or Should I Go? Navigating the Land of Maybe
There's a question almost nobody says out loud. Not to their best friend, not to their sister, sometimes not even to themselves in the mirror: "I don't know if I still want to be married."We call the place where that ques...
#278: How to Stop a Fight Before It Escalates: The First 60 Seconds
You'd think the loudest person in the room decides where a fight goes. It's actually the calmest. Hang with us, because that one takes some explaining.This week we're answering the question that flooded in after our last episode: "Okay, ...
#277: Is This Just a Rough Patch, or Is Our Relationship Dying?
Somewhere tonight, there's a couple lying in bed back to back, both wide awake, and neither one is saying anything. They're both asking the same silent question: is this just a rough patch, or is our relationship dying?Maybe you know tha...
#276: Your Trust Questions, Answered: Clean Slates, Disgust, and When Their Refusal Is the Answer
They apologized. Maybe more than once. So why do you still go quiet when they walk in the room?After last week's episode on how trust actually gets rebuilt, your questions poured in. And you weren't asking us to re-explain anything. You ...
#275: How to Trust Again After Betrayal (Without Waiting for a Guarantee)
You're watching everything they say and do. Reading into every word, every tone. They're showing up, taking accountability, doing the things you asked for, and somehow you feel more panicked, not less. Underneath it all is one quiet question: i...
#274: When Your Partner Won't Change: What to Do Next
There's a sentence a lot of us think but never say out loud: "I don't think they're going to change." The second you say it, you feel like you have to do something about it, so you push it back down.This episode sits with that sentence.<...
#273: How to Actually Ask for What You Need (Without Blame, Guilt, or Manipulation)
You already know you should speak up. That's not the problem. The problem is the moment arrives, your mouth opens, and nothing useful comes out. So you drop a hint instead and hope they catch it. They don't. And you add it to the pile.La...
#272: Are You an Asker or an Assumer?
Most of us think we're asking for what we need. We're not. We're hinting, complaining, dropping signals, getting quiet, hoping our partner figures it out. And when they don't, we add another tally to the list of reasons we feel alone in our own...
#271: Feeling Like Roommates? How to Rebuild Emotional Safety in Your Relationship
There's a particular kind of loneliness that happens inside a relationship, not outside of it. You still share a home, a bed, a life. But somewhere along the way, you stopped really talking. Not the logistics, those still happen. The r...
#270: Why Love Isn't Enough to Save Your Marriage (And What Actually Is)
You love them. And still, you’re exhausted.The same argument keeps coming back. The same silence shows up after the fight. The same emotional distance keeps growing, even though somewhere underneath all of it, you still care deeply.<...
#269: Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Answer Google Can't Give You
Have you noticed how quickly we reach for someone else's answers before we even slow down long enough to hear our own? We Google it. We poll our friends. We scroll for reassurance. And now, we ask AI. Quietly, underneath all of it, something de...
#268: Guilt vs. Shame: The Emotion That's Secretly Running Your Relationship
It’s 11:30 at night. The fight ended an hour ago. Your partner is asleep, or pretending to be, and you’re lying there replaying everything.What they said. What you said. What you wish you hadn’t said. What you ...
#267: The Granola Test: Why Most Marriages Unravel Over the Little Things
What if relationships don’t usually end because of one big thing?What if they end because of the little things no one talks about?In this episode of Love Shack Live, Staci revisits one of the foundational ideas behind her...
#266: How to Stop Bringing Up the Past in Every Argument
Why do we keep bringing up the same hurt in our relationships, even when we know it is not helping?In this episode of Love Shack Live, we're unpacking one of the most frustrating patterns couples get stuck in: revisiting ...
#265: When Your Partner Shuts Down, Pulls Away, or Sends Mixed Signals
Have you ever found yourself thinking:I don’t understand what is happening in my relationship.You’re trying to communicate, but every conversation turns emotional.You’re watching your partner pull away, but they won’...
#264: Have You Fallen Out of Love? Here's What’s Actually Happening
Have you ever caught yourself thinking, I love you… but I don’t feel close to you anymore?That thought can send people into a spiral fast.Maybe we fell out of love.Maybe we picked the wrong person.Maybe this i...
#263: Why Nothing Changes… Even After You’ve Talked About It 100 Times
Why does it feel like no matter how many times you talk about it, nothing actually changes?You’ve had the conversation. You’ve explained how it hurt. Your partner has explained what they meant. You’ve gone over the problem from every pos...
#262: When Someone You Love Walks Away Without Explaining Why (Part 4)
How do you make peace with a breakup that felt sudden and one-sided, especially when you thought this person was your forever person?In part 4 of our attachment series, we’re taking a turn into real life.What started as a plan to ...
#261: Anxious & Avoidant Couples: 3 Skills That Change Everything (Part Three)
When anxious and avoidant partners try to talk through conflict… it often gets worse.One person pushes for answers. The other shuts down.Words start flying around the room. But somehow, no one feels heard.In this epi...
#260: Avoidant Attachment Style: Why Your Partner Shuts Down and How to Respond (Part Two)
If you or your partner struggles with avoidant attachment, shutting down, going quiet, disappearing emotionally when things get intense, this episode is for you. And if you're the anxious attachment partner on the other side: the one who leans ...
#259: The Truth About Avoidant Attachment... It’s Not What You Think (Part One)
Have you ever walked away from a conversation thinking, “Why did I do that… again?”You care. You love them. You want it to work. And yet when things get intense, you shut down, go quiet, and disappear emotionally.In this episode o...
#258: In Conversation With a Couple: How Relationship Skills Show Up in Real Life
Sometimes the most meaningful collaborations don’t start as collaborations at all.Marnie and Patrick originally came to Staci as clients. Two passionate, creative humans who loved each other deeply, but could feel that love alone wasn’t ...