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5 min read“Even when my partner swears he loves my body, it’s hard for me to believe him because of my conditioning about women’s beauty standards.” That listener question lands early in this episode of The Liz Moody Podcast, and it captures a tension that runs through the whole conversation: the gap between what a partner says and what we internalize from the culture. Host Liz Moody and her husband Zach sit down to answer taboo relationship questions that listeners submitted — about money secrecy, body image, work crushes, in-law dynamics, and sexless relationships. The throughline is that many of our most shame-tinged relationship problems are actually common, solvable, and worth naming out loud. The episode doesn’t offer one-size-fits-all answers, but it does model how two people in a long-term partnership can talk about the hard stuff without catastrophizing it.
When a Partner Won’t Talk About Money
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:15) **Opening & Episode Premise** - Liz introduces a new series where she asks real people in her life to answer taboo dating and relationship questions sent in by listeners.
- 2 (01:23) **The Financially Secretive Spouse** - A listener is married to a man who refuses to share any financial information, including salary and expenses.
- 3 (03:17) **When to Talk Money in a Relationship** - The couple discusses the right timing for financial conversations, from early dating to engagement.
- 4 (05:07) **Body Image & Aging Insecurity** - A 36-year-old woman struggles to believe her partner's compliments about her body, due to societal beauty standards and aging.
- 5 (10:51) **Vulnerability: Liz Asks About Her Own Aging** - Liz gets personal, asking Zach if he feels differently about her body as she ages, and shares her fears about perimenopause.
- 6 (14:28) **Ad Break: AG1** - Liz promotes AG1 as a foundational nutrition drink for energy and whole-body health.
- 7 (15:51) **Ad Break: Timeline Mitopure** - Liz explains how mitochondria decline with age and promotes Timeline's Mitopure gummies for cellular health.
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Show Notes
My husband Zack and I answer your most taboo, hard-to-talk-about relationship questions that you feel a little bit of shame or embarrassment talking about with your partner or person you're dating: dry spells, in-laws, prenups, work crushes, and so much more. It's really important to me to take the taboo out of these topics. I’ll share some tips or personal stories that I’ve been through that could help you guys (either in action or just to feel less alone).
This is part of a brand new series where I ask my real-life relationships to come on and weigh in on your biggest struggles. Coming up I’ll have myself and my mother-in-law talk through your trickiest mother-in-law issues, and myself and my friend with kids talk through your friendship issues when you’re in different life phases.
🎧 What you’ll learn:
• What to do when your partner is hiding their finances
• If it’s bad if you have a work crush and what that means for your relationship
• What to do when you don’t believe your partner when they say you’re beautiful
• If it’s bad if you’re not having sex and what that means for your relationship
• If asking for a prenup (from either side) is offensive
• If it’s bad if you’re not close with your in-laws
• If there actually is “the one”
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