Abby Medcalf, author of “Be Happily Married, Even if Your Partner Won’t Do a Thing,” and host of the “Relationships Made Easy” Podcast, discusses how to move out of competition mindset with our partners and into cooperation and connection.
Abby Medcalf is the author of the #1 Amazon best-seller, “Be Happily Married, Even if Your Partner Won’t Do a Thing,” and the host of the “Relationships Made Easy” Podcast. She talks in this Fresh Take about how competition mindsets damage relationships and what couples can do instead to be successful partners and co-parents.
In this episode , Abby explains:
Here are some of the resources from Abby's website that she mentions in this episode:
One big reason why keeping score sets you both up to lose in the relationship
4 ways keeping score in your relationship is setting you up to lose
How competition stops you from listening and forming connection
Follow Abby on social media:
IG: @abbymedcalfthriving
FB: @abbymedcalf
Twitter: @AbbyThriving
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