72: Three Steps to Stop the Holidays From Derailing Your Relationship
Ellen Dorian addresses the stress and conflict that holidays bring to high-performing business leaders, particularly business owners facing Q4 pressures alongside personal obligations. She introduces a strategic planning appr...
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72: Three Steps to Stop the Holidays From Derailing Your Relationship
Ellen Dorian addresses the stress and conflict that holidays bring to high-performing business leaders, particularly business owners facing Q4 pressures alongside personal obligations. She introduces a strategic planning appr...
71: Co-Pilot or Passenger? How to Start Steering Your Relationship To…
Ellen Dorian explores how business owners can strengthen their relationships by treating their partnership as the foundation that holds everything else together. Drawing from a Trevor Noah podcast quote about spending time wi...
70: Playing the Long Game in Relationships or How I Spent My Vacation
Ellen Dorian shares insights from her 10th anniversary Viking river cruise, highlighting three key moves for long-lasting relationships: acceptance, longevity, and defaulting to yes. Part 1: Acceptance in Long Term Relationsh...
69: Case Study-The Rise and Fall of a Relationship
Ellen Dorian analyzes the movie "The Roses" as a case study for relationship decline, illustrating Make More Love's Hierarchy of Relationship Needs and Spiral of Decline models. She breaks down the film's plot, highlighting k...
68: The Brutal Truth About Relationship Conflict--and What to Do Abou…
Ellen Dorian discusses strategies for managing conflict in relationships, introducing the concept of "passionate problem solving" as an alternative to cold war and hot war conflict styles. She outlines two pathways: early int...
67: Hot War Fighting Tactics that Will Wreck Your Relationship
Ellen Dorian explores hot war fighting tactics in relationships, discussing the escalation from Cold War to Hot War styles of conflict. She breaks down the spectrum of conflict, from bickering to brutality, and offers insight...
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🎄 Three Steps to Stop the Holidays From Derailing Your Relationship
The holiday season often brings joy — but for many high-performing couples, it also brings a perfect storm of stress. In Make More Love Episode 72, Ellen Dorian unpacks a strategic, relationship-centered approach to navigating Q4 pressures, …
🛫 Your Business Shouldn't Be Flying the Plane: Why Your Relationship …
You’ve built something real — a business that demands everything from you. Long hours, tough calls, relentless pressure to perform. 💼 But somewhere along the way, your partner stopped being your co-pilot and became just another passeng…
💞 The Long Game of Love: 3 Secrets from Couples Who've Mastered Decad…
A Viking river cruise from Budapest to Passau might not sound like the ideal setting for relationship insights. Yet, that’s exactly where I found myself uncovering the secrets of couples who’ve mastered the long game of love. As a rel…