Unleashed Moms: Adventures in Motherhood
Join us, Alexandria and Leesha, the co-founders of Wildlings Unleashed, on our wild ride through motherhood. As busy moms navigating the chaos of parenting, we wanted to create a space for connection, support, and inspiration while being honest about the challenges we face along the way.
On Unleashed Moms, we get into the adventures of motherhood, from the chaotic to the hilarious. We'll chat about everything from finding the best coffee spots in San Antonio to our unfiltered reviews of local hot spots and sharing honest parenting moments. We'll also be bringing on some experts you didn’t know you needed to hear from!
Whether you're an aspiring mom, new mom, a seasoned pro, or simply looking for a community of like-minded individuals, Unleashed Moms: Adventures in Motherhood is the perfect podcast for you. Tune in every other Friday for laughter, encouragement, and a whole lot of relatable mom moments!
Unleashed Moms: Adventures in Motherhood
Dating Your Spouse - Building Stronger Relationships
In this episode of Unleashed Moms, we get real about the challenges of maintaining a strong connection with your partner while navigating the mental load of motherhood.
From understanding love languages and tackling household responsibilities to creating intentional time for your spouse, we share honest stories, practical tips, and relatable struggles that every mom can connect with.
Whether you're a new mom or in the thick of parenting, this episode offers insights on building deeper relationships and finding balance in your life.
🎧 Tune in for inspiration, laughs, and a reminder that you're not alone in this journey.
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01.179) Hi, hello, and happy Friday.
Leesha (00:01.326) Happy Friday everyone the week we have had with our tech issues
Wildlings Unleashed (00:08.379) my gosh, we are again recording an episode right before it goes out basically.
Leesha (00:13.998) Yeah, we really try to be more prepared than this, but we just have had a series of tech issues and bad luck, but that is okay. I just want to actually, I didn't even talk to you about this first, but I feel like we should say that we just had our first event yesterday morning from when we recording today. We were recording beforehand and it was so fun.
Wildlings Unleashed (00:40.729) It was so fun. We had such a good time and I immediately like we were like 10 minutes into the event. It's like we're doing this again.
Leesha (00:48.239) Oh yeah, everybody that was there was just like, when are we doing this again? Where can we go? What can we do? So it sounds like we're planning a Galentine's one, maybe evening and some hikes. That was high on the list as well. So if you are interested and need some time away from your kids, from your family, I know that might sound bad, but it really feels good when you're away. So I just, I just want to start that off. It just popped into my head.
Wildlings Unleashed (00:55.921) And maybe some hikes too.
Wildlings Unleashed (01:05.009) Thank Everybody needs a break. Yeah. 14.341) Yeah.
Leesha (01:15.372) Today we are going to talk about building stronger connections in relationships with your spouse or significant other. And we're really excited to dive into this topic.
Wildlings Unleashed (01:22.907) Mm-hmm. 27.377) Yeah, I mean, I think that all of us who have a spouse and are bringing a kid into our lives can kind of relate to it is really hard to still be invested in that relationship with your spouse and be a parent. Just period for both sides, I think.
Leesha (01:43.853) Yeah, for sure. Right, I mean, in most relationships, I'll say that lightly because, you know, I things happen, but you get to date them before kids and you get to spend that time one-on-one with them and you're more available in all aspects. And then we have the kids, it just flips everybody's world upside down.
Wildlings Unleashed (01:52.113) I 57.125) Mm-hmm.
Wildlings Unleashed (02:00.929) Yeah. I know I said in a previous episode that like I still love my husband but our relationship took like a back a backseat to everything because each time we had a kid basically. Definitely.
Leesha (02:17.228) Right, and if you don't work on it actively, it can just slip through the cracks so easy. And I could totally see where divorces come into play, know, yeah, when you're handling the mental load of kids and schedules and you and them and just everything. So we are gonna kind of go over all of it and you also should look out for an expert following up on this episode.
Wildlings Unleashed (02:25.465) in those first couple years after having kids, yeah. 31.889) Yeah. 43.789) I love expert.
Leesha (02:44.982) Yeah. Okay, so we are going to start this off with talking about love languages.
Wildlings Unleashed (02:53.911) Mm-hmm. Right, which, you know, I used to kind of be like, I still am kind of like this. I can't commit myself to a love language.
Leesha (03:03.276) Yeah, so do you want to recap what they are in case anyone doesn't know what the love languages are? A little bit.
Wildlings Unleashed (03:08.345) Yeah, let's talk about it. Okay. So there are five love languages. There's actually a whole book on it. If you wanted to like get a little bit more back work on it and like figuring out which one's yours. so one of them's words of affirmation, acts of service, receiving gifts, quality time, and physical touch. Those are the five.
Leesha (03:12.877) Yeah. 26.158) I think that it's really important to at least look at this. And there's different tests that you can take because if you understand it's like the Enneagram and if anybody knows me, they know I love Enneagrams and it has helped me a lot with relationships in the last several years. But the acts of, or the five love languages can really help your partner know how you feel love and then how they feel love.
Wildlings Unleashed (03:32.367) Yeah. Yeah. 42.545) But the time goes 49.049) Right. Right. And I think that's a big deal because I actually, there's a lot of articles on this, but basically they're like, sometimes you could be showing love how you want to be loved, but that is not how your partner wants to be loved. Yeah. So that's the same like Cody's very physical touches his love language. One of his top, he, can have multiple they're kind of tiered. and so like that's how he wants to show love to me. And I am, I am not. Yeah.
Leesha (03:58.093) Right. wants to receive love. yeah, absolutely.
Leesha (04:09.006) Yeah. 14.926) Don't touch me at the end of the day like that reel you sent me.
Wildlings Unleashed (04:18.443) Yes, yeah. So, and I think that a lot of mothers, like when they become a parent, that maybe physical touch used to be their love language, but that might not be their number one love language anymore.
Leesha (04:28.544) I couldn't change because if you're breastfeeding and you have a baby on you half, you know, over half the day or this little toddler's pulling on you or anything. Yeah, you don't at the end of the day, you're maxed out.
Wildlings Unleashed (04:35.257) Yeah. Yeah. You brought up something actually when we started talking about doing this episode, you brought up something and I was like, yeah, totally. Yes. You said, you know, I think that my love languages are different if like needs are being met. So like if my bucket is getting filled, then my love language is completely different basically.
Leesha (04:52.717) Right. Right, right. Cause you, don't feel like mine, mine used to be acts of service, but we've gotten to a place where there's more understanding about the mental load. And so then once the kids are helping pick up, husband's helping pick up, you don't feel like you need that return as much because the, like the, the playing field is a little bit more leveled. So that quality time is like way better.
Wildlings Unleashed (05:01.904) No. 05.453) Mm-hmm. You need all those. Yeah. And then it switches. Yeah. Yeah. I think that even when, for me acts of service is definitely my number one, but even before kids, I think that was my number one. Even if it was like small dressers, like grabbing me a coffee, like you thought of me kind of thing, which I kind of could fall under gifts and acts of service. Yeah. It was just, I'm always like, I don't really want gifts, but I do want you to think of me.
Leesha (05:29.582) So. Right. Gifts. Right. 42.989) Right. It's more like a appreciation kind of piece to it. Yeah. So if you're not familiar with the love languages, go check it out. There is a guy and I should probably know his name that wrote the book. I feel like it's Gary something, but I could be totally wrong. Yeah. I really feel like it's a Gary. I would, could literally could Google it, but Google it. You'll find it. take it. I mean, there's tons of people who speak on it anymore. So, that shouldn't be a problem to find, but that will be.
Wildlings Unleashed (05:45.655) Yeah. Yeah. 54.283) my gosh, I always forget it too. I do think it starts with a G also. I have no idea.
Wildlings Unleashed (06:08.388) Mm-hmm.
Leesha (06:12.632) I feel like that's a really big piece in connecting with your spouse.
Wildlings Unleashed (06:15.515) I think so too, especially during this time when you're having such a disconnect, like it's a good way to know how to support your partner and let them know that you're still there is by knowing what their love language is, how to speak to them in that way, basically.
Leesha (06:27.707) Mm-hmm. So we did touch a little bit on the mental load, but let's dive deeper into that.
Wildlings Unleashed (06:31.503) Mm-hmm. 36.497) Yeah, I mean, I think that a lot of new moms don't always know what that means. Yeah.
Leesha (06:41.551) Yeah, we were talking about that. I obviously in my Instagram feed follow a lot of, I mean, not obviously, but because of the algorithms, I do follow a lot of relationship people. And so that's always at the top is the mental load. And that really like, once you learn more, so the mental load is the invisible, how'd you explain it?
Wildlings Unleashed (06:49.751) Mm-hmm. 54.545) Mm. Right. once you Like things that you have to do, like planning appointment, like things that you do and constantly are have on your mind and are like having to run a list or whatever, but nobody else sees. So it's not like picking up the kitchen, but it's like, the kitchen needs tidied because then I have to prep out dinner and then I have to pull out these. And then the dishes need to put away at this time because I need to put, reload it. Like it's your whole schedule.
Leesha (07:08.75) Have a running list. 22.862) It's just ongoing. I just use the last paper towel roll or there's one left. need to add that to the grocery list. Like it just goes on and on and on.
Wildlings Unleashed (07:27.651) Yeah. 31.373) It goes on and those are kind of the lighter mental load things because there's definitely more.
Leesha (07:34.766) I mean, yeah, I mean, you go even into kid schedules or health and doctor schedules and appointments, you know.
Wildlings Unleashed (07:39.5) Okay. Right, like, it naturally falls on the mother. Yeah.
Leesha (07:45.4) typically. So that is what the mental load is. I feel like we explained it decently for someone that might may not know so much what that is.
Wildlings Unleashed (07:50.181) decently. Yeah. And you can always go into more research if you're like, what, are they talking about? There's a lot of, experts kind of on the subject. Yeah.
Leesha (07:57.743) Yeah, totally, totally, totally. I, when your kids get older, like mine, I'm trying to now teach them like a notice things and pick it up kind of thing or yeah, for sure. So I mean, in the beginning, when you first have kids and it becomes a lot and what, you know, you only really have your husband to help support you. But then once you, your kids get older, it can spill into their cup too.
Wildlings Unleashed (08:08.272) Kind of like caring after themselves more kind of thing. Yeah. 22.351) Mm-hmm. Right, right. Yeah, my kids are younger than yours right now, so it definitely is. And it gets bigger each time you add a kid, the mental load, because you have more to manage.
Leesha (08:27.982) Yeah. 34.498) Yeah, yep, absolutely. It's like when you go to the, don't know, doctor's appointments are like a date of birth and you're like running through the list of like who, what kid, what date?
Wildlings Unleashed (08:43.683) I I always like, I'm like, hold on a second. I got to open up my brain files.
Leesha (08:48.207) Right, right. So the mental load can feel so heavy and you can maybe even not know how to ask for help.
Wildlings Unleashed (08:54.545) Mm-hmm. 59.097) Right. And I think that's a hard, that's a hard thing for men, I think in general to grasp because like they don't, that's not how their brains work. Where if like they aren't physically like getting it shoved in their face or being told they're like, it doesn't cross their brain.
Leesha (09:14.07) Right. And we were talking about this when we last week when we were supposed to record and we didn't, we were talking through the episode, but my husband will, I'll be like, okay, Sunday is cleaning day. We're going to clean, you know, we're going to do all the things. And he is not opposed to helping clean. part of the mental load is if you have to write the list, if you have to write the list, you're still having to use your brain to do it. But he has gotten so much better over the years. And so he went straight.
Wildlings Unleashed (09:19.344) Mm-hmm. 24.209) and she is not.
Leesha (09:41.441) straight to work and he did all the things that he could see because he literally doesn't see what I see or like know the thing how I like things or whatever. So big, big conversations happen around the, or should happen around the mental load. It is not a one time thing. You don't talk about it one time and it's fixed. You have to keep revisiting.
Wildlings Unleashed (10:00.574) It's constant. And the load changes each time. like, if you're feeling like I'm overwhelmed, then you guys need to sit down and have another discussion. Something that my parents kind of do with theirs is they do like assigned chores basically. Which is a good way to kind of be like, while it's an initial like sit down and discuss like, what can you do? What can I do kind of thing? It's that's constant because it's a constant list basically.
Leesha (10:04.698) for sure. 26.326) Yeah, I was talking to another friend about this and so and I was kind of giving her a recap also on the last week and there's a lot when you go and research this stuff you'll find some people that are like you literally sit down and list out everything each one of you are doing everything all of it and then you know you can go over if it's something that they enjoy and you don't but you're doing it then just they can do it you know
Wildlings Unleashed (10:30.875) Mm-hmm. 41.241) Yeah. Cody and I have done that in the past. but it, it's always hard when you end up having like a schedule script. So like we had that conversation in the past, but that was pre the twins, which means it was pre him working this new shift. now some of the things that were helping with that have flipped, but.
Leesha (11:02.051) Right.
Wildlings Unleashed (11:09.347) of one thing, like for me, a huge mental load thing was like being in charge of all the meals all the time. Yeah. I was like, I can't, I was like, we have to switch every other night is your night. I don't care what you make, like as long as it's homemade, he does try to get out of it sometimes though. Yes.
Leesha (11:13.932) Yeah, and I love that you guys do that. 27.058) He'll call me and be, I think we've talked about this before on the podcast, but he'll call me and be like, what are you guys having? What are you doing? And then I'll be like, in the back of my head, I'm like, okay, it must be his dinner night because I'll just cook, you know, like whatever, but it's always funny and it's always his night.
Wildlings Unleashed (11:34.841) Yeah. Yeah. It is. It's always his name and then we'll come home the next day for dinner. He's like, made for dinner. I'm like, you know, technically it's still your turn, but all right, whatever. At least I didn't have to make dinner for a night. So I'm like, as long as you arrange dinner. Yeah.
Leesha (11:55.887) Right. Dinner. I know. Well, there's times that we'll even like call my mom and be like, we're coming over for dinner. What are you making? Like all of us. so yeah, the mental load is really important. I think that it also is really important when you're talking about the mental, mental load is some people are really con I'm going to say controlling. It's a, it's type a or type B, probably type a where they want things done the way I don't know. Cause I don't pay attention to.
Wildlings Unleashed (12:03.447) Yeah, yeah, we all don't want to do anything. Yeah. 20.453) Mm-mm. It's high-bay.
Leesha (12:24.856) those types, but still like the dishwasher. Like if you're going to pass off the dishwasher to someone else, can't, you can, you can kind of like show them how you do it or how you would like it done. But ultimately it's their decision and they're, you know, as long as they're getting cleaned, you have to let that go.
Wildlings Unleashed (12:28.635) Yeah, you have to accept. 37.681) as long as they're getting clean. Oh, I'm type A. I'm a type A. I'm a hundred percent type A. I mean, even my Enneagram says I'm type A and I know I am. And I'm very like, can be like, no, there's a right way and there's a wrong way, like very black and white sometimes about things when there's really not like you can, like, I actually just was on something and there was a post about my wife loads the dishwasher this way and I load it this way.
Leesha (12:48.354) You're right. 54.691) Mm-hmm.
Leesha (13:04.362) I literally saw that today. Right. Right. Right.
Wildlings Unleashed (13:05.517) Yeah. And then the comments, every single person had a different way they loaded the dishwasher. And I was like, these are all wrong. So that can be a struggle. So you kind of have to like self-reflect a little bit with that.
Leesha (13:18.156) Right. I mean, if you, I mean, you need to be ready to let go of some stuff. Right. I know, I know people that will talk about it and they will divide children for school, school stuff. So you take the boys, I'll take the girls, or I'll take this grades and you take those grades, whatever it is. And they're the ones in charge of their schedules with them, their conferences, their homework, those kinds of things. And so I mean like,
Wildlings Unleashed (13:21.835) Mm-hmm, if you want that relief of the mental load. Yeah 30.779) Mmm. 41.131) that's interesting.
Leesha (13:46.851) there's just so many and like you just have to trust and just rely on them and whatever they're choosing to do is gonna have to be what's right, you know, but with the dishwasher specifically and other smaller things like that, your kids' school stuff is a little bit more, you just have to keep that in mind. The other thing I will say is I want, I've been teasing but kind of not teasing that there's man jobs and.
Wildlings Unleashed (13:50.587) that they're Yeah.
Wildlings Unleashed (14:04.913) you just have to come to the other side. Do you think? 14.328) yeah.
Leesha (14:14.412) The garbage is one of them. remember the kids have been doing it, but the garbage, I don't take the garbage out. I absolutely refuse. I do so many other things. I am not walking the garbage out. I will take it out. I will tie it. I'll throw it in the garage, but I am not taking it to the garbage. I'm not doing it.
Wildlings Unleashed (14:20.389) Yeah. Yeah. That's what I mostly do too. I don't know why. I mean, I'm sure that's something about, could talk about like how it's just ingrained in us and women after like many years or whatever. But I also am like, I don't want to do that because I don't want to touch it and I don't want to deal with it and wrestle with a big garbage can or anything. So that's technically Cody's job too, but sometimes he just like, we'll let it go. I'm like, frick.
Leesha (14:33.663) Hahaha! 38.985) I don't want to use the hat. Yeah, I just don't. 51.235) Yeah. some of the other things are, my husband takes really good care of our cars. If I have any complaints from my car, he comes home and he will deal with it. So like that's something that is on him. does my, he pays attention to my oil changes. He, you know, all of, all of those things, he handles the yard work. He handles all of it. He has his own schedule for mowing. I did, I had to help him get set up with taking the garbage and recycle to the curb because it's like every other week.
Wildlings Unleashed (14:57.105) Mmm.
Wildlings Unleashed (15:01.989) That's Cody's job too. 09.445) the yard. 19.387) Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Leesha (15:19.734) So I helped him set up reminders on his phone and I got to remove them from my calendar. And I can't even tell you how relieving that was because you've seen my calendar. It's chaotic, always. Yours is too, I'm sure. But like, it was so nice to be like, look, I'm not gonna keep that reminder anymore. You get to have it, so.
Wildlings Unleashed (15:26.489) Yeah, it is. Yeah. One last thing. Yeah, no, totally. I, so again, talking to your partner, listing out, you know, these are the things that I really feel like you could take over and they can.
Leesha (15:46.518) I don't need to do personally.
Wildlings Unleashed (15:47.953) Yeah, and you guys can figure out, either how they can take it over or how you guys can divide that task. Like me with the dinners, that was like my biggest one. And it's been so nice to have half the week not being where I have to think about what we're eating. Yeah, I mean, to put it more in perspective, if you
Leesha (16:03.074) Yeah. Yeah. And just, mean, to put it more into perspective, if you enjoy cooking and you want to keep cooking, it doesn't mean that you have to give away cooking, you know, or if, if you hate doing laundry and you're, you're, you know, spouse is like, well, don't mind doing it, but I don't want to fold it. You know, like maybe you're just splitting and dividing.
Wildlings Unleashed (16:12.625) Your spouse is like. Right.
Leesha (16:23.842) Concrete that's what we're doing. Like we all live in the household. This is a big phrase in my house Like we all live here. We're all gonna help clean up. We're all gonna maintain the house We're all doing this because it's not only one person's job
Wildlings Unleashed (16:29.761) Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, I've had to let go. again, with like kind of putting responsibilities on your kids too, which I think, you know, there's age appropriate responsibilities for almost all ages. Even the younger kids, like my two year olds will help unload the, like the silverware from the dishwasher and stuff. That's their job. They love that job. It doesn't always end up in the right place and I'll like put it in the right spot later, but they unload it into the right drawers. That's their job. and then like Logan.
Leesha (16:42.264) There's eight. 52.523) No. 56.984) you
Wildlings Unleashed (17:02.135) She is responsible for the playroom. The twins will go in and help and I will help her a little bit, but I had to let go of like it being like how I specifically want it necessarily. She knows like the buckets are for different things and mostly gets it right. But I'm like, I can't do that. I can't get in your playroom every single time or I will end up throwing away all your toys. Like.
Leesha (17:09.248) organized. 22.382) Yeah. So I mean, that's a good point about like cleaning up because I got to the point where I was so tired of yelling at everybody to like clean everything up and clean like Sundays are cleaning day or tidy day. I hired cleaners. had nobody, nobody cared the way I cared. And I was tired of being the grumpy one all week because nobody would pick or clean anything up.
Wildlings Unleashed (17:36.057) Right. Yeah. But that circles back to the mental load. if neither you or your spouse can handle the task, then figure out how can it be handled? If it's something that's necessary, like cleaning the house is kind of necessary, then can we afford to hire out or can we like, how can we do it basically? Yeah.
Leesha (17:48.173) Right. 54.567) Right. Yeah.
Leesha (18:01.602) Yeah. Yeah. I think I feel very lucky that I can do that. And that's, know, I kind of get to work and then I get to pay for these extra things, but I feel like the landscaping will be next because I always feel so bad that Jesse has to go out and mow and it's hot, you know, but I mean, our yard's really big. So I don't know that it would be like more costly than a typical job. Like our house isn't bigger, you know.
Wildlings Unleashed (18:09.591) Yeah. That will be nice. That would be nice. 26.971) Well, if you just pay for during like the summertime, like a lot of like high schoolers and stuff will do like their lawn service thing.
Leesha (18:30.094) Yeah, right. Yeah, I do. I have seen some kids walk around, so I'll have to check that out. But if you have a more balanced mental load, doesn't have to be perfect. But as long as you can get some of those things that you don't have to physically do or hold space for, it opens you up to being so much more receptive to having a connection, you know, with intimacy. I really struggle with that word. So if I have to say it anymore, I'm going to struggle. But
Wildlings Unleashed (18:36.09) If you have Mm-hmm. 44.763) Mm-hmm. 52.215) I know.
Leesha (18:56.335) It helps so much when you just don't have these pile of bricks on your shoulders.
Wildlings Unleashed (19:00.911) Right, right. And it makes you more like able to receive like whether your husband's like they want their love. Like it just feels so physical touch. I'm more able to be like, okay, yeah, like let's sit and cuddle because I'm not feeling so maxed out in my brain and touched out and everything because I had the load taken off or at least partially taken off, you know.
Leesha (19:04.814) Mm-hmm. 12.994) Mm-hmm. Yeah. 24.0) Yeah, yeah, definitely. Definitely leaves you feeling like you can spend more intentional time with your partner because you don't have that running list. Like you had help, you were able to check some stuff off.
Wildlings Unleashed (19:30.233) I mean. 35.3) Right. Right, I actually think that this kind of ties nicely in with one of our other, we kind of divided our podcast out into sections of how we want to talk about it, but this ties nicely in with, we talk about needing to communicate with your partner. And so like our title is communication is everything, which as we just talked about, you need to sit down and be real with your partner.
Leesha (19:56.694) Yes.
Wildlings Unleashed (20:04.323) Yeah, and sometimes I think that as moms in particular, I don't want to speak for men, we can want to be do-it-allers. We don't want help. We want to be able to handle everything that we are supposed to, I say with quotation marks, handle because we're not supposed to. One person's not supposed to handle all that stuff. No.
Leesha (20:16.51) Yeah. Everything, no. For me, I get really crabby when I have to ask for help. Then those conversations never go well. 100 percent, there's someone in our community who really talks a lot about alignment meeting and sitting down and mapping out quarterly goals.
Wildlings Unleashed (20:30.84) Mm-hmm.
Leesha (20:45.966) schedules, all the things. It literally is for your relationship and family.
Wildlings Unleashed (20:47.577) Which that sounds like a business meeting. so you kind of should, yeah, you should think of your family kind of like a business. How would you handle like, you know, teams going awry? You would sit down with them and be like, Hey, this is what's been going on. This is what I'm noticing. This is what I think we should do. What, what are your thoughts and getting that communication open for it?
Leesha (20:57.103) Yeah.
Leesha (21:08.408) I think that these couples meetings are gaining traction because you can conquer a lot by sitting down. I mean, you don't have to go anywhere. You can. If you have childcare, you could go out to a coffee shop, sit down for a couple hours and just hash out everything. But like we were doing them here, would just, the kids would go do something. We do it on like on Sunday evenings and be able to just talk through what's happening this week, what's dinners, just so that I didn't have to plan dinners. I didn't, I'll go grocery shopping.
Wildlings Unleashed (21:13.585) you 19.163) Yeah. But you could do it right after bedtime or... 33.733) dinner.
Leesha (21:38.137) But I just like somebody to be like, we need this, or I would like to have this instead of me having to walk the grocery store and find everything. we also would call the kids in for like goals that they wanted for the quarter. If it was like a fun activity, like a bigger fun activity, not like small stuff, not like movie nights at home or stuff like that, but like, right. Like a trip that they want to take. So it's just, just so nice.
Wildlings Unleashed (21:45.808) and figure it out. Yeah. 59.601) But like they want to go to the beach or yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was going to say, you could do like a couple's meeting and then also a family meeting. So that way you're kind of making sure your kids are included in that and hearing what your kids are thinking or seeing and needing, or what you are seeing or needing from them as kids. Like, Hey, I'm seeing you're never tidying your room or something, whatever that may be.
Leesha (22:13.634) Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Wildlings Unleashed (22:29.521) or your grades are slipping, let's talk about what's going on there. But I do think that even if you can't sit down and communicate, I know that's something that Cody and I personally struggle with is like sitting down and having like open communication, but we can have full blown, very detailed conversations through text. And I know that sounds really dumb, but we don't get a lot of solo time together because we have three young kids. We're very busy.
Leesha (22:47.79) Yes.
Wildlings Unleashed (22:58.317) my husband goes to bed early and I see up late and then they get up, he gets up way before me and then I take a load of the school. So we just have a really busy schedule and we can get a lot more done when we have an all day texting back and forth basically of, okay, this is what we need to discuss this X, Y, Z. And like, we'll have a whole planning session day through text. Yeah.
Leesha (23:17.794) Yeah, and there's nothing wrong with that. Like you know that that works for you guys. So that's just how it works. Jesse and I, yeah, yeah. That's really great because some people can't because it's text is very monotone. And so you can't really tell, but like you guys know each other so well that it just works. Jesse goes back and forth at work with having working in a secure area. So he doesn't have his phone. And so I often don't talk to him at all during the day.
Wildlings Unleashed (23:23.153) And we communicate clearly that way too. 28.913) Yeah, interpret it really. Mm-hmm. 42.969) Right. Right. know that Cody was in that area. Our husbands work in the same place. Cody would do that too. And so that was kind of actually really weird because he's always been like full access for me. And so that time period was like, I don't think I like that.
Leesha (23:52.086) Yeah. Yeah. 58.325) I know we got a break of it and then he, he's back in now. So it makes it, it makes it a little bit harder. but we do better. I mean, it, feels like we don't talk all throughout the week, you know, because he also goes to bed very earliest of anyone. He goes to bed at like seven 30 when the kids go to bed every night. Yes. My kids go to bed.
Wildlings Unleashed (24:01.943) back over there. 08.753) We'll sit down. Mm-hmm. Of anyone, even earlier than my husband. have like the same schedule.
Leesha (24:24.302) to their rooms at 730, but he is very soon after them. And then wakes up at three or four to go to work.
Wildlings Unleashed (24:25.744) Yeah. 31.269) So that being said, you know, do what works for you. doesn't have to be a sit down meeting. It doesn't have to be through text. could be, know, whatever works for you for communication. Heck, write each other emails if you need to send each other letters.
Leesha (24:37.005) Yeah. 41.526) Yeah, totally. Yeah, But yeah, communication has always been just so high on the list. You just have to communicate to accomplish anything that you really want to.
Wildlings Unleashed (24:55.951) Yeah. And, you know, you're never going to fix an issue or even begin to address it. If you aren't honest with your partner, you know, you married this person, you should be able to be honest with them. And if you can't, that's something to think about. Yeah. Yeah. Something else is going on.
Leesha (25:03.438) you you married this person you should be able to be honest with Yeah. You can't. Yeah, Some of you have other other problems. Okay, so do you want to talk about...
Wildlings Unleashed (25:19.247) we can circle back to, we ended off on four.
Leesha (25:23.05) Okay, so with the mental load, giving some of that away and then having really good communication. Once you have all that in place or even before it's dating your spouse, spending that intentional time with them. You have let go of some of your mental load and all your chore tasks list in your head. Yeah, we're walking in. Just follow these steps.
Wildlings Unleashed (25:34.641) Yeah. 42.001) Or we hope. Yeah. Step one.
Leesha (25:51.533) But now hopefully you can fit in time to spend intentional time with just your spouse.
Wildlings Unleashed (25:58.792) Right. And we totally get it if like you don't have an ability to get childcare and stuff, you don't, dating your spouse does not mean going out for dinner necessarily or going and doing an activity. You can date your spouse at your house. It's just setting aside that purposeful intentional time where you set the kids up with an activity or a movie or something. Um, and you can go and make dinner together.
Leesha (26:11.278) and do your test at your house. 22.862) Yeah. Yeah, totally. I lost the thought I was thinking. So that one's gone in the wind. Maybe it will come back. but. Playing cards. We love to play cards. So that's another one. Like my kids, I can set them up with a movie and we can play cards at night. and that's really good, but you want to know something that I actually really look forward to when my kids.
Wildlings Unleashed (26:23.131) I actually really enjoy doing that with Cody is making dinner together. 32.081) Sorry. 40.945) Thank you. 50.193) Really?
Leesha (26:52.609) are old enough, anybody could do this. That's what I was going to say. It came back. So your intentional time spent together depends on how motivated you are. And you really have to take a deep look into this because if you're not willing or motivated to go set your kids up and make them go watch a movie and spend time over there so that you can spend time over here together.
Wildlings Unleashed (26:57.969) Thank you.
Wildlings Unleashed (27:04.145) because you really have to get it. 09.265) purposefully planning around your kids schedules, potentially too. Yeah. Excuses. Yeah. In some way, just like the communication thing where I said, like Cody and I have busy schedules, but we still communicate. It's just differently than how other people might do it.
Leesha (27:19.286) Right, yeah. Like if you're, you can't, I just, could see so many people being like, I just don't have time. I just don't have time, but you can. If you think it's important, you will make it happen. 37.465) Right. And I really think that dating your spouse and having that intentional time together is very important to maintain that connection. And also so you don't feel like roommates because that all can fall in so fast with this, which we will touch on that. And as far as like emotional aspects, but that's all over social media right now too. I mean, with my algorithm it is, but it's...
Wildlings Unleashed (27:59.009) Yeah, mean, yeah, that's so easy to happen, especially when you're in that new parents face. you, like I said, it's natural for it to take a back burner. That is totally okay. And you kind of need to sometimes to for you to wrap your head around being a parent, you know? But I do think that making that intentional time and even if like while you're pregnant, if you are hearing this,
Leesha (28:07.064) Mm-hmm. 17.218) what's happening. Yeah.
Wildlings Unleashed (28:27.629) You can plan for that. You know, I'm gonna have the baby this time. I'm gonna need this time. I'm gonna want these designated three months to just be solely focused on my kid. But then after that, I should start thinking about how can I make sure my relationship with my partner stay strong so we can be strong parents to our kids even.
Leesha (28:37.027) Yeah. 43.789) Right. Yeah. So even, I mean, if you're on a pregnancy journey, being able to date your spouse and like get comfortable with that before the baby comes taking a break maybe, and then getting back to it. But something that I was really looking forward to, and I have come to look forward to before I like reversing this back to where I was going, before I had that, you know, is on the weekends, Jesse and I have been going to the store.
Wildlings Unleashed (29:03.505) Epiphany.
Leesha (29:12.814) and grocery shopping without the kids. they're old enough they can stay home, but I also could take them to mom's house. I really look forward to it. I don't have children running around asking for a million things. And it's just like, we can just go to store and just come back home, you know? And then the kids are there to help unload the car and put the groceries away.
Wildlings Unleashed (29:13.457) yeah, your kids are old enough for that, Right? Mm-hmm. 33.366) Yeah, yeah, definitely. I mean, even just small stuff like that, even task oriented things can be really nice. Yeah. Like I said, I enjoy cooking dinner with Cody. Our kids are still there. It's still like, I've already said that I, the mental load for dinner for me was really heavy, but doing it with him is different. Like we made sushi a week ago now, probably.
Leesha (29:37.442) Yeah, yeah, together. 48.46) Yeah.
Wildlings Unleashed (29:57.073) And it was so fun doing that because it was a new food item for us. We both love sushi. We both were learning it. It was just such a fun experience to do together, even though we were home.
Leesha (30:02.702) Well, that's so fun. Yeah, yeah, so what are, do you guys do anything else? We have a list here that we already made. I can't talk today.
Wildlings Unleashed (30:13.169) Hmm. I know. So we were doing, and we kind of let that fall on the wayside because we all got so sick for like, it felt like eons and then holidays and stuff. But we were doing monthly dates where we had planned, we set up your mom to watch the girls. And we would go out on a dinner date or an activity date or something. And those were great because they were once a month. We knew they were going to happen.
Leesha (30:29.39) Mm-hmm. 36.664) Yeah.
Wildlings Unleashed (30:38.45) So that's a good like outing thing, but you could even do that for an at home one, schedule it, put it on your schedule. If that's what you need to do, put it there so you feel like you have to do it.
Leesha (30:44.415) yeah. That's another hot ticket like tip for relationships. Obviously for like at home dates, movie night after the kids go to bed. We've done that. We've even, there's been specials on Netflix like Joe Rogan had a comedy special. And so like we were like, we put it on the calendar literally and we're like, okay, at eight o'clock or nine o'clock or whatever it was, we're going to watch this movie. And so we went to the store and gathered up like a shoe cuttery board.
Wildlings Unleashed (30:49.712) Mm-hmm. 54.897) with it.
Wildlings Unleashed (31:00.845) Right. I love it. 12.914) cute. Little at-home date.
Leesha (31:13.442) thing and like had our snacks and yeah and we're able to watch that comedy show. We've done that twice actually with two different comedy shows.
Wildlings Unleashed (31:21.385) Yeah, Cody and I, we used to, and we just started a new show together, so we'll see how this goes. But we used to pick shows and we would watch them together. But then when he got started working for Boeing, when he,
Leesha (31:28.011) Yeah, we used to also. 38.414) I would just pause. And when he started his current job.
Wildlings Unleashed (31:41.957) When he started his current job, we had a big switch basically relationship-wise. He was working a crazy shift. And so we could not watch shows together. There was no stinking way that was gonna happen.
Leesha (31:57.516) Yeah.
Leesha (32:00.862) No, no, because then their bulk of their day is in the morning and then you're getting like groceries done or whatever breakfast and then leaving. He had a long commute too, so that really cut down.
Wildlings Unleashed (32:07.919) or breakfast and like prepping for dance and yeah. Yeah, so, but that's another one is if you don't want to do movies, you could do a show together. But then really stick to it, you guys. Don't watch it without your spouse. That's the worst.
Leesha (32:23.565) Yes. Yes, we're actually, I know this isn't like a family thing, but we've been watching the Beast games on Thursdays. And so we had caught up because there were several episodes, but now as a family, we're watching Beast games. And so it's been really fun to do that too. But at home stuff, like we're obviously like a game family. So we do that. Usually around the holiday time, we will, cause he has a lot of time off work.
Wildlings Unleashed (32:30.675) That's cute. 42.831) Yeah. 50.641) Mm-hmm.
Leesha (32:51.149) We'll sit down and play card games together. But we also love to have double date nights and have you guys over, other friends and do like big nights, things like that, or go out and do different things.
Wildlings Unleashed (32:57.327) Yeah. Yeah, we do that relatively often. feel like it's been a while, but again, we, we had like, everyone was sick and the holidays and stuff. So, but I agree. we also do game nights. Like if the girls are being chill or they went to bed a little earlier and we'd like, we've got some time, then we'll do like a game of cards or something afterwards. And that's kind of nice just for that intentional, okay, let's sit down together and just do the same activity together.
Leesha (33:05.886) I feel like it's been forever since we have. Yeah, the holidays. We'll get back to it. 22.722) Yeah. 29.708) Yeah. Yeah. And I think, I mean, something to... 40.269) Where am I going with this one? So I was going to mention phones. It doesn't really fit in with what we're talking about right now, but phones and doom scrolling are such an issue. And I have really tried to like set an example to not do it and hope that at some point it will be reciprocated. but that's a hard one and you can waste. And that's part of, think being like intentional or motivated to spend or schedule that time is like, we're going to put our phone down.
Wildlings Unleashed (33:48.619) man. 58.001) But that is hard. Right. Right. So Cody and I used to do a, once he gets home from work, we will not be on our phones until like a certain, until we're in bed or whatever. which that did work kind of for a while, but then it made us unavailable because we would put the phones away.
Leesha (34:17.536) Hmm. 25.838) Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Wildlings Unleashed (34:25.977) So there was no like getting enticed that, but again, that also was like when we were available most for like my mom to call us and stuff like that. So it kind of interfered with some aspects. But I do agree that doom scrolling is so like, you can just get so absorbed in it and it can be such a habitual thing. But I don't want to take away from the fact that some people that's kind of how they unwind, you know?
Leesha (34:33.134) Mm-hmm. 42.615) Yeah. 50.791) Yeah, I know and I do when I'm feeling more stressed. definitely reach for my phone more but
Wildlings Unleashed (34:55.212) Thank you.
Leesha (34:58.063) Yeah, I don't know. That's a hard one. I'm going to start doing no phones in the car.
Wildlings Unleashed (34:58.511) I know, that's a hard one.
Wildlings Unleashed (35:05.421) OK. That's a good one because they don't really need to. Yeah, I like that. Yeah.
Leesha (35:08.824) There's literally no reason to be on your phone in the car. Unless you're on a long road trip. But I like to point out things when I'm driving, and so I'll do that. And then Jesse's just looking at his phone. And I'm like, he's like, what? And I'm like, well, you missed it.
Wildlings Unleashed (35:17.297) Right. 22.011) So I'm the guilty party of that one driving because Cody usually is the driver. And so I'll be in the passenger seat. Yeah, you're calling me out right now. And it part ties because Cody's not always, sometimes he's just, we're just happy in silence. Right.
Leesha (35:26.382) I'm calling you out right now. Jessie has two. But he can sit there in silence, not on his phone. Look out the window.
Wildlings Unleashed (35:42.065) You can just suffer. Yeah. Which I have no problem looking out the window too, but maybe I should be more intentional about like we're in the car together. We're together. So phone. Yeah. Yeah. But we'll just, I'm whatever. We're just happy in silence. Sometimes it'll just be a quiet times. Yeah.
Leesha (35:48.814) Yeah, yeah, you're stuck in the car sitting right next to each other. Yeah.
Leesha (36:00.494) Hopefully you guys love our side stories. So back to the dates, uh, going out dates, there actually is a ton of stuff to do in San Antonio. I feel like we've got top golf. There's the pop stroke, a couple of different mini golf places, um, bowling, going out to movies, going out to eateries, bars, breweries, wineries, day trips, um, hikes. There's so many things that you can do here in San Antonio. So definitely take advantage of that. Um, you could.
Wildlings Unleashed (36:11.235) there was a new mini golf place too, yeah. 16.453) Lots of little dinner places. Parks, hikes. 28.785) And if you need some ideas, we do have some highlighted on our Wildlings Instagram feed along with other creators. They have some date night series going on specifically.
Leesha (36:39.212) Yeah. Yeah. So send us a DM if you are like stuck and don't know what to do. the other huge thing for dating your spouse is a couple's getaway and
Wildlings Unleashed (36:48.581) Okay, this is this is big for Leisha I'm not I don't have a lot of two cents on this because my kids are really young and I Have not gotten to the point where I'm okay with leaving them this long yet
Leesha (37:01.676) Yeah, so I don't remember when our first trip we go typically we were going on a yearly trip together for an extended weekend. Just wherever with friends without friends, whichever. I don't remember when our first one was probably before we had Jameson. But I know that we had mom watch them both when Jameson was like six months old.
Wildlings Unleashed (37:08.441) incident again. 24.997) Yeah, I remember that because I came over, I think, at that point too. So yeah.
Leesha (37:28.365) Yeah. So we did that for several years in a row and then COVID hit. then we, since moving to Texas, we have gone away once. And then we booked our trip for this year and I'm so excited about it. We're going to Boston. Now you don't have to have a couples getaway that is across the country. It doesn't have to cost thousands of dollars.
Wildlings Unleashed (37:41.605) Mm-hmm. 47.729) This is so fun. Thank 57.359) Heck, you could just go to a hotel up the road.
Leesha (37:59.265) You could, you could go to Fredericksburg. You could go to Austin. could go anywhere, a cabin out, you know, a little ways. or take, yeah, have them take the kids. so it doesn't have to be something extravagant, but I really highly recommend taking an extended weekend or weekend away without the kids just to connect you and your spouse and just not have anybody else to worry about, and be running on anyone else's schedule.
Wildlings Unleashed (38:04.977) Or you could stay home and just have a babysitter for your kids. 24.366) Mm-hmm. 28.817) Yeah, I love this idea. I'm just not there yet. Maybe. We'll have to see. We'll see. We'll see.
Leesha (38:29.322) at all. You just need to just do it and you'll be hooked. I enjoy having space for my kids though so you're very content.
Wildlings Unleashed (38:40.433) Yeah, I'm attached with my kids, which I mean, you guys can probably tell this from our past episodes of like our differences in that way, but which is how we balance each other. But definitely, I love the idea and I want to do that, but I kind of want to take my kids with me if I go somewhere new.
Leesha (38:52.706) Yeah, it just works.
Leesha (39:00.75) Yeah. Well, you know, I will say your adventure in motherhood is a little bit different than mine because you have the twins. So if it wasn't for that, it would probably look different because it is a little bit harder. just, it is. My kids now are a little bit older. Like I said, I did take a vacation when Jameson was like six months old and Delilah would have been four. But you...
Wildlings Unleashed (39:07.505) Yeah. because it is family. 24.823) Great.
Leesha (39:31.064) We're at the point now where we can go and take adventures with them too. So like we have lots of stuff planned this year actually. But it's just not, it's just not even just start with like one overnight downtown or something.
Wildlings Unleashed (39:34.353) Right, yeah. just an overnight? Well, I actually was talking about this when we, so at our event that we hosted, we were doing bingo cards where we were setting intentions for the year. And one of my intentions was actually going back to Austin, which two of them actually were Austin related. Cause one of them was seeing the bats because I missed it last time and it was thanks to my kids. Yeah. So.
Leesha (39:57.006) you
Leesha (40:00.716) Yeah. See, and you couldn't, you couldn't because of the kids. Alex, it's already built in. You need to go to Austin for an overnight and see the bats. Sorry, I spoiled it.
Wildlings Unleashed (40:07.471) That is exactly where I was going with that. You spoiled it. No, just kidding. Yeah. So I was kind of like, if there was a trip I'd be a comfortable doing as a first try for an overnight trip would be us staying in Austin for a night, having the kids be with you or your mom or whoever. And then getting to do that. Cause then we could stay out later. We could hit up some of the bars and nightlife stuff that's going on there and not be so kid focused. Cause we have parks and like, it was so cool.
Leesha (40:23.607) Mm-hmm. Yeah. Nightlife. 34.286) Yeah.
Wildlings Unleashed (40:36.941) And I really loved our last Austin trip, but there was definitely things that I want to do that they couldn't because we had the kids, you know. Set. Okay. Hear that guys? I'm going to go on my first solo. That's okay. Wait, I can't do two trips in February.
Leesha (40:38.904) Yeah. 43.116) Right. Well, there you go. Set. Ready. There's some four, there's some four today. There's a four day weekend coming up. Valentine's weekend. Why not? Fine. We're going to fit it in. We're going to pencil it on the calendar. It's what I spent my day doing today was booking trips. Okay. So let's move on to this kind of actually leads right into the emotional availability or back to that in motherhood and then post-baby relationship stuff. So.
Wildlings Unleashed (41:02.242) I like what you said, trips. Booking trips, yeah. Okay, so... 14.914) Mm-hmm. Which we kind of talked, we kind of hit a little bit of this, the emotional availability and motherhood because you're just, you're maxed out.
Leesha (41:27.246) And you feel alone. When you're in those newborn, you're just in the dark. You just don't feel good.
Wildlings Unleashed (41:32.913) I know. I never really, so with Logan, so when I was pregnant with Logan, I lived with you and I was so actually kind of nice, even though we kind of were homeless at that point. That's a whole different story. It was so nice to have somebody to be like, is this normal? And when I was so sick, having that support, even though Cody was at work and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, it was so nice.
Leesha (41:48.492) I'm sorry. 53.794) Yeah. I made you dinners, I made you eat.
Wildlings Unleashed (42:01.281) and I got to be like around your kids too, to like get me more excited about my pregnancy. It was like a whole different, like it was like an immersive experience basically. and, but then when I had Logan, we had moved away and I didn't really have any, friends that I had that were also like had younger kids or I was necessarily as close with to be like.
Leesha (42:08.876) Yeah, yeah, that's a good way to explain it. 24.171) same stage.
Wildlings Unleashed (42:28.879) I'm really struggling, you know, and especially because I, again, I'm type A, I'm a very big perfectionist and I want to be, I want to be the perfect mom, perfect wife, perfect everything, you know? So I do think that having friends or a spouse that's really open to hearing you and understanding you and not just like kind of writing off that, it's just, yeah.
Leesha (42:30.03) you 38.007) Yeah. 49.934) or telling you that you're fine or that there's nothing wrong or whatever it is. Yeah.
Wildlings Unleashed (42:54.265) Yeah, so I never really realized how important a community was really until I had the twins. I mean, I realized it when I had Logan, but I didn't click until I had the twins and I had that kind of extra support a little bit here.
Leesha (43:06.914) Yeah. Yeah. So I think that it's just good to know that if you're in that stage, even if your kids are younger, still toddlers, you could still be feeling this way of like you, you you're distant, you're just doing the day to day, your spouse is doing the day to day and you're both feeling really disconnected. So and it's hard to dig your way out of that. I am not going to lie. Like I've been there and it's hard. It's hard. And that's where you fall back on, okay,
Wildlings Unleashed (43:11.409) Good. 16.17) Or even older. 26.853) Mm-hmm. 33.552) It is hard.
Leesha (43:37.165) You know, at a certain point you have to realize it's happening and you're feeling like roommates that you're just going through the motions and put it on your calendar for a date. Sit down and talk, you know, share something, start out small and share something together. And then also taking care of yourself because if your cup's not full, nobody else's cup is gonna, you know, or maybe their cup's overflowing, but your cup is low. You know, you kind of look at it a couple different ways.
Wildlings Unleashed (43:45.425) Or communication sit down or something else. Mm-hmm. 58.154) Nobody. Yeah. And I always like the, the saying of like, you need to take time for yourself because you can't be the mom and parent that you're really wanting to be. If you are struggling, you're going to present yourself in your worst form to your kids. That's what they're going to get or your spouse or whoever. Yeah.
Leesha (44:13.602) Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Or together, your relationship in general. It's like the oxygen mask on the airplane. It's like you want to put it on yourself before you put it on others. So that is such a crucial time in your relationship with your spouse. And definitely one. Yeah, very normal.
Wildlings Unleashed (44:27.915) Mm-hmm. Yeah. 39.505) But 100 % normal too. Yeah. I've said in a previous episode that, mean, Cody and I, we, each time we've had our kids, we have like, you know, back burner relationship, things that we were more like roommates. And my twins are two now, so two years. And I feel like we just, this last like six, eight months, whatever, have started being more intentional again about each other.
Leesha (44:56.91) Yeah.
Leesha (45:05.42) Yeah. And I think that in life, you need to give yourself a little bit of grace because it's not going to be perfect all the time. You're going to have, even if you just want it, you can't just wish it to be perfect. And that's just the way it works. There's different seasons in life. know, there's, there's holiday seasons, there's sick seasons, there is job changes or moves that really can change the outlook of what the relationship or the family dynamic looks like. So just having some grace with that and just.
Wildlings Unleashed (45:10.341) And even if you want it to be. You can't manifest it. Yeah. 31.479) Right.
Leesha (45:34.967) remembering that.
Wildlings Unleashed (45:35.665) And being willing to like, re-communicate. If something's not working that used to be working, re-communicate and be like, what? Why isn't it working anymore? How can we make it work again? You know, like really just be willing to be flexible with your spouse. Just like how we've said to be with your kids, be with yourself, be with your spouse. Like relationships change and needs are different.
Leesha (45:38.956) Yeah. 51.945) how we can take care of our kids. Mm-hmm. Yeah, definitely. So we are, we have a guest booked that's going to be coming on to the podcast that we're really excited about. And she is going to probably walk us through a lot of these things again. So if you guys have any questions more about mental load connection, communicating, what are the other topics she covers? Intimacy.
Wildlings Unleashed (46:13.585) Thank you. 25.699) Everything she's yeah. And about more about, you know, working on yourself because not always is it your relationship that's broken or that's messed up. Sometimes it's that you need to be more open or she does a lot of yeah inward work, which I can totally see that you having struggles of your own, how it would just like reflect back into your relationship.
Leesha (46:26.838) looking inward like why is my spouse this way and I'm this way kind of questions. 36.716) before. 44.428) You know, look inward. 54.073) Yeah, totally. And I mean that, that, yeah, I totally relate to that with a Jessie and I's relationship for sure. So if you have any questions that you want her to cover, we will be interviewing her in February. So we have a couple of weeks before we would need to have all those questions, but we would love to go over any that you would have.
Wildlings Unleashed (47:00.111) Mm-hmm. 16.217) Yeah, and you can get those to us by either commenting on the podcast episode. You can do the text feature that is on our podcast episodes too, where it says, text us and it will send us a direct message or you can DM us on our at wildlings.unleashed Instagram page.
Leesha (47:35.695) And then we would love to get those questions to go over with her. Obviously we'll have our own stuff that we're already going to talk about, but we're really excited to have a guest. on. So hopefully this has been really helpful and you guys can kind of reflect on your relationships in 2025 and maybe you need to put in some building blocks there and hopefully we gave you some.
Wildlings Unleashed (47:42.459) Right. Yeah. 58.074) Right. Get some stuff scheduled, whether it's a meeting or a date, even if it's an at home date. put some stuff on your calendar. That's, we hope to hear from you guys that you are going to start planning some stuff. You heard me plan one on air.
Leesha (48:12.416) Yeah, also, yeah, we literally just planned it. We just need to find a weekend. Our next episode is going to be with an expectant mom who has health challenges. So make sure to tune in.
Wildlings Unleashed (48:26.021) Yes. Yeah, tune in for that. It's going to be a good episode about the challenges that you faced during pregnancy, all the new stuff. She's a first time mom, she's unexpected, the questions, and then dealing with health challenges while you're pregnant and how that can look. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. All right. We are so happy to share this with you.
Leesha (48:37.217) Unexpected. 43.446) Mm-hmm. Yeah, definitely.