The Dating Den

Marni welcomes Dr. Shawn Haywood, founder and owner of Reimagine Love, in the Life Check Yourself studio, to discuss how to reignite the spark, and adopt a conflict-free relationship. Dr. Shawn, who’s worked in the field for over 23 years, delves into the tools and tips for learning to reverse-engineer your relationship and get back to that happy place. In this episode, the duo talks about what it takes to make a relationship work and how we, sometimes, self-sabotage by constantly repeating the same patterns on an individual level. This behavior inevitably seeps into our romantic life. By setting up certain systems with your partner, to undo what years of unconscious habit-building have brought on, couples can find that fight-free space together.    Takeaways from this episode:  - How to break bad habits   - Create your own unique system  - Start a problem list   - How to reconnect when you’re disconnecting   - Let go of blame   - Don’t manage conflict, outgrow it  Lay Down Your Emotional Weapons [03:32] It