Relationship Reset: Reignite, Reconnect, Rebuild
Feeling stuck in your relationship after years together? Relationship Reset is your go-to podcast for busy, high-achieving couples ready to break free from autopilot and rebuild a thriving partnership. Join relationship expert Katie Rössler, LPC for practical tools, real-life stories, and actionable advice to reignite passion, rebuild trust, and reconnect on a deeper level. Whether you’re navigating communication breakdowns, struggling with intimacy, or just feel disconnected, this podcast is here to help you transform your relationship—and create the love you’ve always envisioned.
Perfect for couples who want to reignite their spark and reconnect with purpose. It’s never too late to hit reset.
Episodes
186 episodes
Stop Carrying It Alone: Caring for Aging Parents as a Couple with Kiana & Andrew Joyner
Your kids still need rides to practice and your inbox is overflowing. Then your mom has a fall. Welcome to the sandwich years.In this episode I talk with Kiana and Andrew Joyner, co-founders of Soul Journey Therapy and Coaching Services,...
The Hidden Reason You Keep Parenting Your Partner
Unspoken expectations in marriage can turn two capable adults into the one who reminds and the one who keeps getting reminded. If you keep having the same fight about money, parenting, or how the dishwasher gets loaded, chances are the fight is...
"I Don’t Feel Safe Talking to You": What’s Really Underneath It
When was the last time you said, “I don’t feel safe talking to you about this”? Maybe it was about money, sex, your mother-in-law, or whose turn it was to book the doctor’s appointment. Now flip it around. When your partner said those words to ...
What Your Partner Needs From You Right Now with Dr. Matthias Hombauer
Your partner says, “I should exercise more,” and you say, “So do it.” Conversation over. Except they weren’t asking for a workout plan. They were trying to tell you they feel older, more tired, and a little worried about their health, and nobod...
Dear Katie: Married 24 Years and Still So Lonely
It’s Saturday afternoon, guests arrive tomorrow, and you’re raking the garden next to a partner who’s pulling weeds like each one personally insulted him. Nobody’s yelling. Nobody has to.In this Dear Katie episode, I’m answering a letter...
The Hidden Roles Keeping You Stuck in the Same Fight
It's 9:15 on a Tuesday night. The kids are finally asleep, and one of you is reloading the dishwasher because the other one did it wrong. Bowls on the top rack again. Four minutes later you're both saying things like "Why am I the only adult in...
Stop Running on Autopilot: What Healthy Couples Do Differently
Schedule Your Relationship Game Plan CallYou meant to stop at the post office on the way to work, and suddenly you're pulling into the office parking lot wondering ho...
Nothing, I'm Fine: How Resentment Quietly Builds in Your Marriage
"Nothing. I'm fine." If those three words have become your household's unofficial motto, this episode is for you.Most couples come to me saying they have a communication problem. When we dig a little deeper, it's almost always resentment...
Dear Katie: We Don't Fight, We Just Don't Talk
Some of the calmest marriages are the ones Katie worries about most.This week's Dear Katie letter comes from a listener married 12 years, together 16, who has built a life that looks completely put together from the outside. No fighting....
The Silence Dialect: Why Quiet Feels Like Danger to One of You
Relationship Game Plan CallWhen your partner goes quiet, what happens in your body? For some of us, it's relief. Finally, some peace. For others, it's dread, like we're w...
The 90-Second Rule: What to Do When You're About to Shut Down
You're mid-conversation with your partner. It started small — the dishwasher, a tone, a missed phone call — and by sentence four, something flips. Your chest goes hot or cold, and every part of you wants to either bolt the room or go silent. If...
Stop Avoiding the Hard Conversation: The Dialogue Tool That Saved Their Marriage
There's a version of every long relationship where things stop working the way they used to, and neither person quite knows how to say it out loud. This week, I'm talking with John and Sally, together over twenty years, who've lived through nea...
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Is Undiagnosed ADHD Quietly Driving Your Fights?
You've had the fight about the shoes by the door. The reminder texts. The unfinished closet project. You've talked about it a hundred times, in a hundred different ways, and somehow nothing changes. What if the pattern was never about effort at...
Off Campus and Romantasy: Are They Helping or Hurting Your Relationship?
Between the Off Campus series, the My Fault trilogy, and whatever's currently sitting on your nightstand, something has shifted... and it's not just 20-somethings hooked on romantasy. Katie's hearing the same three questions f...
Why You Can't Stop Resenting Them: The Shame No One Talks About with Kyira Wackett
You didn't just marry your partner. You married a suitcase full of shame you don't even remember packing.In this episode, Katie sits down with therapist Kyira Wackett to unpack the thing quietly running most long-term relationship...
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Clutter Blindness Is Real: Here's What It's Doing to Your Relationship
Have you actually looked at your kitchen counter lately? Like really looked?Not the version your brain has filed under "that's just there." The actual pile. Chances are it's been sitting there so long you've stopped seeing it at a...
Frustrating In-Laws?
Ever hung up the phone with your mother-in-law and felt a strange, unnamed sadness you couldn't quite explain? Or caught yourself building a whole case against your spouse's parents before you'd said a word out loud? This episode is for you.
Married to a Saver But You're a Spender? with Heather and Douglas Boneparth
You know the fight. It's 11pm, you're both exhausted, and somehow you're arguing about the Amex bill again. Money conflict shows up in nearly every long-term relationship, but as this week's guests reveal, what looks like a fight about spending...
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Dear Katie: We Went on Vacation and Came Back Further Apart
Submit a Dear Katie question about your relationshipYou planned the trip....
Why Your Feedback Keeps Landing as Criticism with Dr. Jessica Higgins
Ever start "just trying to give some feedback" and end up in a full-blown fight before you even know what happened? You're not alone, and it's not because you're bad at communicating. It's because most of us never learned the difference between...
The Hidden Cost of Keeping the Peace
You've mastered the art of keeping the peace. But at what cost?If you've ever caught yourself calculating whether it's the "right moment" to bring something up with your partner, checking his mood, replaying how last time went, de...
Resolution Isn't Repair And the Difference Is Wrecking Your Connection
You resolved the argument. So why do you still feel terrible?You came to an agreement. You compromised. You closed the tab on yet another disagreement and still walked away feeling cold, distant, and vaguely like you won the argum...
Affair Repair: The 5 Phases of Healing After Betrayal with Amanda Deverich
Can a marriage actually survive an affair and come out stronger?Most people assume the answer is no. But marriage and family therapist Amanda Deverich, author of Affair Repair, has spent years walking couples through one ...
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