The Dating Den

Marni welcomes Frieda Birnbaum, research psychologist, psychotherapist and published author, to the Life Check Yourself studio, to look into why committed relationships and marriages fall apart, and how to prevent that.  Takeaways from this episode:  - How to shift your perspective   - How to merge your masculine with your feminine  - How to step up your emotional prenup  - Fighting in a healthy way   The Devil is in the (Emotional) Details [03:00] The emotional prenup is to prevent divorce as opposed to the financial prenup which is a failsafe. So, why do people go into marriages with a failsafe rather than an agreement that defines the parameters of how the relationship will work?    Identify Yourself [11:10] Today, a lot of women have both masculine and feminine traits. And that’s not a bad thing, because these sides of you complement each other. The masculine traits are the parts of you that are driven, problem solving, and career-oriented.  Merging them and reconciling both of those sides allows you to i