Dr. Tracy Dalgleish

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Helping you feel less lonely in your marriage

Couples Therapist | Speaker | Podcaster |
Author of ‘I Didn’t Sign Up For This’ and ‘You, Your Husband, and His Mother

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Relationships are about understanding who our partner is, understanding who we are, and then finding a way to come toget...
06/05/2026

Relationships are about understanding who our partner is, understanding who we are, and then finding a way to come together.

This can be a starting place to understand what repair could actually look like.

If you’re looking for more:
Comment 30DAYS and I’ll send you the link to 30 Days to Us — 5 minutes a day for 30 days, built on safety, communication, and connection. Because knowing the right words isn’t quite the same as being able to use them.

Comment ‘254’ for my podcast episode all about the repair. And be sure to listen to the previous episode on the rupture. Greg and I share two of our most common disagreements and how we’ve shifted the conversation.

06/04/2026

A pregnant woman asked me:

“Is it okay to prefer my mom over my mother-in-law after the baby is born?”

My answer isn’t really about moms versus mothers-in-law.

It’s about trust, familiarity, and feeling safe during one of the most vulnerable seasons of your life.

Most of us don’t think twice about asking our own mother for what we need. The relationship is already established. The expectations are known.

But with a mother-in-law, you’re often navigating a newer relationship, different expectations, and figuring out how to express your needs and boundaries.

The issue isn’t who gets to hold the baby.

It’s whether a new mother feels heard, respected, and supported when she says, “I’d like my baby back.”

That’s what this conversation is really about.

Leave a ❤️❤️ if this resonates or share what you needed most after having a baby.

06/03/2026

When you’re stuck feeling lonely and more like roommates. Here are 7 subtle habits eroding your relationship:

1. You both default to just doing your own thing.

It becomes easier to just numb out on your phone or turn to a friend instead of reaching for your partner. There is an overemphasis of free time on individual activities.

2. The same conflicts happen over and over and there is no resolution

Things are left unresolved and your negative cycle continues to happen. Resentment continues to build as your issues never get fully addressed.

3. There is no more excitement and you feel like you are co-existing as roommates.

You are stuck in the mundane. The truth? You’re bored. The spark that you once had is no longer there and acts of spontaneity are gone.

4. Your conversations revolve around surface level things

Deeper conversations are avoided at the expense of meeting everyone else’s needs.

5. Physical and emotional intimacy have taken a back seat

The things that used to be automatic like reaching for the other’s hand, a good morning kiss are dropped and you feel the lack of affection.

6. Quality time together just isn’t a priority

Everything else comes first before the relationship.

7. Hard conversations are no longer happening

Difficult moments get swept under the rug and you don’t have the energy to revisit them.

If you’re feeling stuck, I want you to know that it’s possible to feel…

✨ excited when your partner walks through the door (instead of dreading what mood they’re in)
✨ like you want to sit closer to them on the couch (instead of numbing out at the end of the day on your phone)
✨ like you want to kiss your partner (instead of passing them in the hall).

👉 Join me in my 30 Days to Us. Backed by my 20 years of working with couples, I give you one powerful exercise each day to break the loneliness and roommate season.

Leave the comment‘30 DAYS’ and I’ll send you more details.

When your partner is grumpy, where do you go inside?Were all your feelings welcome as a kid? Were you allowed to be grum...
06/02/2026

When your partner is grumpy, where do you go inside?

Were all your feelings welcome as a kid? Were you allowed to be grumpy yourself, or did you learn to read the room and shrink?

In my therapy room, a client tells me her partner’s bad mood wrecks her day. We trace it back. Somewhere earlier, someone told her, directly or quietly, that her feelings were too much.

You’ll meet Ashley in my book, I Didn’t Sign Up for This. She shows up to therapy alone. Her husband doesn’t think he’s the problem and wants her to be the one to fix herself.
Her anxiety is sky high, constantly adjusting to dodge his moods.

We uncover that her people-pleasing started in childhood. Her father left. Her mother called her selfish for having needs. So Ashley learned to stay small.
Even after you understand why your partner’s mood lands so hard, the mood itself is still hard. Naming it doesn’t make it disappear.

Here are 5 things you can try when your partner is grumpy. Save this one.

Tired of managing around your partner’s moods and ready to actually shift the pattern? Come into 30 Days to Us. 30 days of small, specific moves that bring you closer instead of further apart. Comment 30 DAYS and I’ll send you the link.

Want Ashley’s full story and the framework I use with clients like her? Comment COUCH and I’ll send you the link to order my first book, I Didn’t Sign Up for This.

05/30/2026

Our mental health isn’t just something that exists in a silo. Our relationships impact our mental wellbeing. Loneliness and disconnection impact our mental health.

05/24/2026

That repeating disagreement doesn’t mean you’re doomed. But what creates more conflict it is the story you build around the conflict.

05/19/2026

Intimacy is all about trust and vulnerability — and they’re both undermined when defensiveness becomes a pattern.

If your partner is the one that gets defensive, be ready for them next time with a script that will redirect the conversation.

Comment DEFENSE and I’ll send you the link to my free guide with ten statements on what to say next time.

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