Is communication less about the gender binary and more about functional communication vs. expressive communication? Marisol and Adam received lots of comments about the episode "do men and women text differently" so they decided to revisit the conversation. How does American or Western culture limit our language or behavior in relationships? Is texting a way to get out of a phone call or an additional form of communication all together? How do we read into texts, lose things in translation, and limit our ability to deeply connect using the written word? All of this and more on this weeks episode! Want more Reading Aloud Podcast? <a href="https://www.patreon.com/ReadingAloudPodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Become a member of our Pateron</a>!&nbsp;Check us out at<a href="https://readingaloud.captivate.fm/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://readingaloud.captivate.fm</a> (Subscribe, Download, and Review)Follow along on this journey through life on<a href="https://www.instagram.com/readingaloudpodcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Instagram</a> or<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ReadingAloudPodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> facebook</a> at @readingaloudpodcast or send us a message at<a href="https://my.captivate.fm/readingaloudlove@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> readingaloudlove@gmail.com</a>Thanks for listening!

143. Hot Seat

Welcome to the Reading Aloud Podcast, a place where the creative, emotional and hilarious aspects of relationship communication are explored in real-time, by a real Married couple. Marisol and Adam are a married couple living in Asheville, North Carolina. Outside of the Podcast, Marisol is an entrepreneur, who owns SolReflection, a therapeutic image consulting firm (she's a style therapist) and Adam works for Dogwood Alliance, a environmental non-profit organization. After dating, marriage, and lots of travel, the couple went on a long fertility journey. That journey lead them to IVF, a tremulous pregnancy,  post partum depression and an amazing life altering miracle kid, Neo (all while recording the ups & downs). These days Marisol and Adam are raising a toddler, navigating the surrogate process to add to their family, and starting the egg retrieval/IVF process again after a miscarriage.  Tune in as the couple provides you insight into how they communicate, navigate and thrive through married life, parenting, being an adult, and living in the world today.