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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. 286 - From Roommates to Deeply Connected In Your Marriage (What’s Missing)
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You don’t feel disconnected in your marriage because something is wrong. You feel disconnected because you’ve stopped going deeper.
So many couples come to me saying they feel like roommates.
They’re handling life.
They love each other.
But something feels… off.
Flat.
Predictable.
Disconnected.
And what most people don’t realize is this:
You can know everything about your partner’s life… and still not know their inner world.
In this episode, I’m breaking down:
- Why couples start to feel like strangers after kids
- The difference between surface-level connection and true intimacy
- Why most people avoid going deeper (and don’t even realize it)
- How emotional awareness directly impacts connection
- What it actually looks like to build depth in your relationship
- How staying surface-level quietly creates resentment and disconnection
You’ll also hear a real client example of a couple who “never fought” but felt like roommates—and how everything shifted once they started sharing what was really going on beneath the surface.
If your conversations feel transactional, your connection feels stuck, or your marriage feels like it’s missing something… this episode will help you understand why.
Ready to deepen and strengthen your marriage? Book a clarity call today to learn what marriage coaching can do to help you!
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