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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. 287 - Raising A Child Who Listens And Trusts You with Cara Tyrrell
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The way you talk to your kids becomes the way they talk to themselves.
Most parents are trying their best to raise kind, confident, emotionally healthy kids and without realizing it, the words we use and how we say them can either build connection or create distance.
In this episode, I sit down with parenting expert Cara Tyrrell to unpack how everyday communication shapes your child’s identity, emotional safety, and willingness to open up to you. Not just now, but as they grow too.
This conversation will help you parent with more intention, more confidence, and more connection and all without feeling like you have to be perfect.
Inside this episode, we cover:
- Why “not listening” is often misunderstood, how to build deep trust with your kids from an early age, and how small shifts in your language can completely change your relationship.
- Why connection (not control) is the foundation of effective parenting
- The Core 4 relationship builders every child needs
- What’s really happening when your child acts out or shuts down
- Why only 7% of communication is verbal — and what matters more
- How subconscious speech patterns from your own childhood show up in parenting
- Simple ways to regulate yourself before responding to your child
If you’ve ever thought:
“I just want my kids to talk to me”
“I don’t want to mess this up”
“I want a better relationship than I had growing up”
This episode is for you.
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Connect with Cara:
Website: https://www.caratyrrell.com
Podcast: Transforming The Toddler Years
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cara-tyrrell/
IG: @core4parenting
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