Episode #29: Releasing Relational Expectations with Jen Banks Caitlin's Couch

Welcome to Caitlin’s Couch! In this episode, Caitlin is interviewing Jen Banks! 
Jen is a Teacher, quote collector and an all around amazing person who loves to share her wisdom. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah and is supporting wildlife by raising two (soon to be three) boys. Her favorite indoor activity is baking and her favorite outdoor activity is frisbee golf. She graduated from Utah State University in Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education. Jen collects inspirational quotes, plays the violin, and is fiercely in love with her husband of seven years, Jared. 
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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL HEAR ABOUT Who Jen Banks is and how her early childhood education degree supports her relationships. How Jen married her high school sweetheart, and together they worked through every relationship struggle that came their way.  In a relationship, you need to each give 100%. How important it is to remove expectations from your relationship.  The truth behind love languages.  QUOTES
“What I learned first is to identify and meet your own needs. This is important because a lot of people rely on their spouse or their partner for their happiness, and as much as we would like to control people, we can’t. If we are meeting our own needs… whatever our spouse does is just icing on the cake.” “To have a healthy relationship, you have to have space for people's differences. If you can’t allow for those differences, you’re going to have struggles.” “I had to realize that [my husband] was giving me love, it just wasn’t in the ways that I was looking for it.” “You don’t have to be completely happy and stop wanting a partner, but you can't look for a partner to be the SOUL SORCE OF YOUR HAPPINESS and WORTHINESS, because it just doesn’t work out.” LOVE THE PODCAST? Hey there!
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