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Marriage & Motherhood - How To Reconnect With Your Spouse After Kids
Motherhood changes everything, including your marriage.
If you’re a mom who feels stuck having the same arguments on repeat, disconnected from your partner, or like you’ve slipped into roommate mode filled with resentment and tension, you’re not alone and your relationship isn’t broken.
Welcome to The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast.
I’m Michelle Purta, mom of 3, marriage coach, and I help couples understand and shift the communication patterns that keep them stuck so they can rebuild connection, strengthen their partnership, and feel like an "us" again.
Each week, you’ll learn how to navigate marriage and motherhood with better communication, emotional awareness, and practical conflict resolution tools that actually work in real life.
We go beyond surface-level advice and focus on what’s really driving the disconnection like reactive cycles, emotional shutdown, miscommunication, and unresolved resentment.
This podcast is for couples who want to:
- break the cycle of repeating arguments
- communicate clearly without shutdowns or blowups
- resolve conflict in a way that builds connection instead of resentment
- move out of roommate mode and back into a connected partnership
You’ll learn the skills to shift your patterns, improve communication, and create a more connected, supportive marriage while you're knee deep in parenthood.
Because a strong relationship isn’t about avoiding conflict. It’s about knowing how to move through it together.
If you’re ready to stop having the same fight and start feeling like a team again, you’re in the right place.
Ready for deeper support? Learn more about marriage coaching here: https://michellepurta.as.me/clarity
Marriage & Motherhood - How To Reconnect With Your Spouse After Kids
Ep. 276 - How To Restore Connection In Your Marriage After Kids
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Have you felt more and more disconnected from your partner after having kids? Most couples don’t stop loving each other after kids. They just stop prioritizing their marriage and that's what causes the disconnect.
After kids enter the picture, life gets full fast. Between school schedules, activities, work responsibilities, chores, and bedtime routines, it can feel like there’s barely enough time to breathe, let alone nurture your relationship.
So couples adapt. They become efficient. They divide responsibilities. They manage the household.
And somewhere along the way, the marriage quietly shifts from romantic partnership to operational partnership.
That’s when many couples begin to feel like roommates.
In this episode, I explain why this shift happens and how couples can intentionally rebuild connection even in the middle of busy family life.
You’ll learn why waiting for the “perfect time” to reconnect rarely works, how small daily moments can rebuild closeness, and why prioritizing your marriage actually strengthens the entire family system.
If you’ve been feeling distant from your spouse but still want a strong partnership and connected marriage, this episode will help you rethink how connection fits into your everyday life.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Why couples often feel like roommates after kids
- How busy family life quietly pushes marriage to the bottom of the priority list
- Why connection disappears even when love is still there
- How micro-connections rebuild intimacy over time
- Simple ways to reconnect even without childcare
- Why prioritizing your marriage benefits your kids too
If you don’t intentionally structure your life around your marriage, life will slowly structure you out of it.
Think it's more than just taking the time to connect? Book a clarity call to start receiving support to identify what’s really happening and what skills and changes are needed to restore the connection in your marriage!
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