Kids are back in school and that means time to get that homework done! Even though most of us groan at the thought of homework, there is so much value and even purpose in doing homework. In this week's episode, we share the value of "doing the work" and what that looks like in our marriage.

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We love sharing the stories of what makes you smile when you think about your spouse. But we also know many of our listeners are in tough marriages and may not have much if anything to smile about. This week we spend a few minutes to pray for our listeners who are in marriages that feel hopeless.

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We can't seem to help it- the words we speak are often clothed in this invisible layer we call tone- sometimes that tone makes us understand each other there better, and other times, those tones make things worse. Especially when tones are misread and then we assume things that aren't there. In this week's episode, we share our struggle with tone and how we keep them from getting misread.

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How do family vacations look for your family? They often are a mix of rushing, relaxing, and new adventures. In this week's episode, we share some of our favorite memories traveling as a family and how we learned to trust God in the unexpected twists and turns!

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Have you taken a vacation recently? Getting away can be really fun and healthy or it can be full of stress and anxiety. In this week's episode, we're sharing and how we feel about vacations and our struggles around traveling.

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In honor of our 200th episode, we're celebrating TWOs and the ways we are better TWO-gether. Batman and Robin, Woody and Buzz, Paul and Silas - all dynamic duos where you can't imagine one without the other! In this week's episode we share what makes a good partnership so that our marriage can be a dynamic duo!

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Do you have Fan Wars in your house? One person who prefers the fan be on, and the other one who needs it to be off? In this episode, we laugh about our dilemma with the fan and how we work through our differing preferences.

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How do you feel about birthdays? Maybe you love celebrating yours or maybe it brings up a host of negative emotions about your worth. In honor of Joe's birthday this week, we share some of our "birthday baggage" and how our identity is not tied to the circumstances surrounding our birth, nor who we are born to!

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In this last session of summer school, we share about another foundational skill that benefits our marriage: kindness. Once you've mastered forgiveness and offered grace, being kind is a great next step. It may be a simple skill to learn, but it can have a huge impact! Join us this week as we share about the ABC's of being kind!

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This week we're tackling another foundational skill that we need for healthy relationships: grace! Grace is one of those things that we love to receive but we are more hesitant to freely give. In our second session of Summer School we share the ABC's of showing grace in our marriages.

These are the Conversation Cards that we mentioned :)

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