Behind Our Smiles Marriage Podcast

Keeping your marriage strong while parenting young children can be challenging… but there is a different set of challenges to when parenting grown children. But we don't have to fear the empty nest! In this episode, we share the struggles and truths we're experiencing as our kids leave the nest!

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Sometimes someone else says it better than we can! In this episode, we share some some helpful and hilarious marriage tips from Christian writer, Anne Kennedy. If you need some encouragement and a good laugh, read the whole list on "25 Ways to Be Happy in Marriage" over at Anne's Substack.

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Your spouse is not the source of all that you need and long for, but they do play a critical role in what they can provide: companionship, intimacy, loyalty. When we promised in our vows to care for our spouse, they put all their eggs in our basket. In this episode we share how we've learned to take responsibility for the eggs that are in our basket!

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Is there anything you long for in your marriage? Maybe there are longings you have that your spouse doesn't even know about. In this episode, we're shaing our experience with submitting those desires to God and recognizing where we may be leaving our spouse longing.

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Is your husband or wife always counting down to the next big game? How does our love for sports affect our marriages- for the good or bad? Our culture puts a high value on sports but it can become excessive when every game is a big game. In this episode we share how God has shifted our hearts in the role that sports has in our home.

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Have you even been in a classroom or job environment and you had no idea what was expected of you and no idea how to get there? It's hard to succeed when you don't even understand the assignment! We've experienced that feeling in our marriage! In this episode, we share how we learned to trust God to guide us when we don't know what we're doing.

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What's your first reaction when you remember being in classroom as a child? Did you enjoy getting those good grades or was it just another way to feel inadequate? Our school experiences often shape how "smart" we feel. Then we can bring those feelings into our marriage and how we treat our husband or wife. In this week's episode, we share how needing to feel smarter affects the intimacy in our marriage.

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If you've been to any weddings this summer, you can see it in the faces of a new bride and groom- the spark! It's that special attraction that keeps you and your spouse connected. But ten, twenty year later the spark often dies out. This episode we're sharing five ways (SPARK) to ignite or re-ignite- the spark in your marriage!

S: Smile

P: Pursue

A: Admire

R: Repair

K: Kiss

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We have called the process of raising our teenage sons as pulling the man out of the boy. In Part 2 fo this series, we finish sharing our man-building principles in our PULLING acrostic!

P: Pray

U: Understand

L: Lead your heart

L; Look out for others

I: Influence

N: No excuses

G: Grit

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Following Father's Day, we want to dig deeper into the influence of fathers, and especially on sons. We have been raising teenage boys for the past ten years and we've seen how critical Dad's role is during that time. We call that process pulling the man out. It's not always easy, but it is necessary. In this episode, we share how we parented to help our boys become men.

A Father's Role in Homeschooling

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