A relationship expert and magnetic matchmaker with clinical foundations in the Gottman Method who helps people find love and keep it.
Spicy Mari is the founder and CEO of The Spicy Life, a relationship consulting firm, known for her Spicy Tips, her Gottman Method training, and her work as a relationship coach on Netflix’s Sneaky Links. On Legally Uncensored, Mari joins attorney and host Demetria Graves to discuss when low libido is actually relationship burnout, and why lawyers make terrible daters.
The Conversation
Before you file, there is a question worth asking: is it the marriage, or is it burnout? Mari, a relationship expert who is married herself, helps sort out which one you are looking at when desire disappears. It pairs with Demetria’s piece on telling weaponized incompetence from plain ineptitude, which asks the same question about who is carrying the relationship. It is also a fun one: Mari teases Demetria about being a lawyer, and about why lawyers make terrible daters.
In this conversation:
How to tell when low libido is really relationship burnout
Why to ask that question before you file for divorce
Why lawyers make terrible daters, according to Mari
Listen to the Episode:
Before You File: Recognizing When Low Libido is Actually “Relationship Burnout”
Keep listening: Already past the decision? Matchmaker and dating coach Tennesha Wood covers the other side: how matchmaking works and why healing comes before dating, in It’s a Match! Dating After Divorce with Tennesha Wood.
About Spicy Mari
Spicy Mari is the CEO and founder of The Spicy Life Inc., a Los Angeles relationship consulting firm she runs with her husband and co-founder, Chae Waugh. She has clinical foundations in Gottman Method Couples Therapy, degrees from UC Berkeley and USC, and a dating certification from the International Dating Coach Association, and she shares weekly Spicy Tips on The Spicy Life Podcast.
Connect with Mari: thespicylife.com | Instagram | YouTube | Podcast
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Legally Uncensored is hosted by family law attorney Demetria Graves. The podcast explores the conversations that happen before, during, and after the decision to divorce.