**Why We Stop Hearing the People We Love | Coach Keith Dorscht on The Chris & Mike Show**

What happens when the person helping everyone else fix their relationships realizes his own marriage is falling apart?

Coach Keith Dorscht joins Chris and Mike for a deeply human conversation about communication, connection, marriage, parenting, addiction, recovery, and what happens inside us when we stop feeling safe with the people we love.

With nearly 30 years of experience helping couples, Keith has spent thousands of hours working with people in crisis. But some of his most important lessons didn't come from coaching. They came from his own life. After 27 years of marriage, Keith found himself facing divorce, resentment, bitterness, keeping score, and the realization that while he was helping other people professionally, he had stopped showing up the same way at home.

That honesty opens the door to a much bigger conversation.

Keith explains why communication can be both the problem and the solution, and why one of the worst things couples can do is continue arguing after they've already lost their emotional connection. Sometimes it isn't the words causing the damage. It's the tone, the look, the body language, and the feeling that the person across from you is no longer emotionally safe.

The guys explore how something as simple as eye contact can change a conversation, why affectionate touch and joy matter, and how our brains respond to the people and environments around us. Keith also shares the personal story of his child's seizures and how that experience sent him down a path of learning more about the brain and the role different forms of stimulation can play.

Mike brings his own story into the conversation, opening up about sobriety, marriage, addiction, and the decision to become a different person rather than simply expecting everyone around him to change.

And because it's The Chris & Mike Show, somehow a serious conversation about relationships and the human brain eventually finds its way to Rush, Van Halen, Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, Ozzy, band names, guitar playing, and what makes music actually *feel* right.

But maybe that's fitting.

Because whether you're talking about a marriage, raising a child, recovering from addiction, playing in a band, or simply trying to become a better human being, connection matters. Timing matters. Listening matters. And sometimes fixing the relationship starts with something much simpler than winning the argument.

It starts with actually seeing the person standing in front of you.

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