Welcome to Season 7, episode 3 of the Legends Podcast with Sarah Furuya.

This week I celebrate 21 years of being with my partner, my love, my husband, my housemate. When it comes to relationships and marriage, my husband Kei and I have it absolutely solved…PERFECT. And in this episode, as a life coach, I will be telling you the definitive list of to-dos for your perfect relationship.

NO NO NO

Let it be known that this is simply creative musing, and while I am a Relationship Systems Coach with a slew of techniques for working with relationships and couples - NOT a counselor, NOT a marriage expert and certainly no Esther Perel nor John Gottman (although I highly recommend their work), this is simply my half of our story; our legend.

21 years ago, in a long-since-closed British pub in a town in Tokyo called Takadanobaba, I met this chatty, confident, handsome young man while watching a band. I was filled with far too much Guinness (see previous episodes about that - I actually fell off my bike as he took me home that night yet we stayed together since) yet I knew there was something special about this no-nonsense, no-bullshit dude who approached me. I liked him and it quickly grew to love as we explored Tokyo together on our bicycles.

We have been together since and while I take absolutely nothing for granted - and I do mean NOTHING for granted, I do want to tell the story of the myth and the legend of Sarah and Kei. 

And so whilst traveling around Tokyo and surroundings these past weeks, I made a list of things that I think about our relationship. We have reinvented ourselves over and over, had points of discussion about the future and had something of a renaissance in the past year as we emerged from the Pandemic bruised, couples coached, much therapy (on my side) and newly sober (Ep 1 and 2) with many changes in relationships around us. We reassessed everything, including our relationship and I share my two guiding questions that influence my decision.

And in this episode you can hear my creative musings on this…

In this episode you’ll hear:

• The two questions that guide Sarah in her relationship
• How they keep the home-fires burning!
• The ultimate secret to a perfect relationshi……LOL not really. Seriously though. No.
• How we culture our relationship, and each other, very deliberately 
• That our parents and grandparents may also have had an influence on us

If you enjoyed this episode and it inspired you in some way, we’d love to hear about it and know your biggest takeaway. Head over to Apple Podcasts to leave a review and we’d love it if you would come and say hi over on @sarahfuruyacreative on Instagram or Facebook.

Connect with Sarah

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sarah-furuya-creative

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahfuruyacreative/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarahfuruyacreative

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXsuS_yVT9fMHjhAylVy8-w