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Being intentional to pursue each other in marriage (special guests Matt & Lisa Jacobson)
Matt and Lisa are the founders of Club31women and Faithful man. They are in full time ministry as Pastors and bloggers/podcasters. Yet they also have 8 kids!!
Today we are going to talk about being intentional within the busyness of life. When you have kids all of the available time will be taken up. Wether you have two or eight kids they are time consuming.
As married couples we must establish our priorities. Often times couples become child focused over marriage focused. This can be unhealthy for our kids and damaging to our marriage. This won’t always show up right away but it will have a snow ball effect in our marriage if we don’t make it a priority.
Everything is on fire for a toddler. If we give them all the time they will take it all. If we want to raise up healthy children then we need to take our marriage seriously and make it the top priority.
Our kids don’t need our attention 100% of the time. We want to model to our kids that as a family mom and dad prioritize their marriage. Invest in your marriage and get away and go on dates. It is healthier for everyone in the long haul.
Decide you priorities. As a christian couple your priority should be to love each other well and to pursue each other. This will then lead to healthy parenting. Your kids won’t be missing out. They will receive the blessings of your healthy marriage.
Practically the Jacobsons have created and carved out a time every morning where they have coffee together as a couple. Their kids were invited to be there but they knew that it was their time as a couple and that they could be a part of it but not take away from it.
“This brought peace to our home because our kids knew that we were stable and in love. This helped them feel very secure.” -Jacobsons
Parents are often the victim of their children’s urgency. But we need to decide who is going to establish the culture in our homes. As parents we should establish the culture and then invite our kids into this. Kids who set the culture will not have a good set of boundaries. They will feel more secure and well rounded if they are invited into our culture that we set as parents.
Fight for your date nights! Share with your kids why your going out. Let them see what it looks like to fight for marriage and help them to understand the health behind pursuing each other after marriage. We are our kids greatest role models.
If we aren’t intentional then we will lose valuable time to less important things. We need to make sure our priorities are straight and that are time matches what we say are our priorities.
Go check out their podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/faithful-life/id1455150061
Follow them on social at: @club31women & @Faithfulman
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Today we are going to talk about being intentional within the busyness of life. When you have kids all of the available time will be taken up. Wether you have two or eight kids they are time consuming.
As married couples we must establish our priorities. Often times couples become child focused over marriage focused. This can be unhealthy for our kids and damaging to our marriage. This won’t always show up right away but it will have a snow ball effect in our marriage if we don’t make it a priority.
Everything is on fire for a toddler. If we give them all the time they will take it all. If we want to raise up healthy children then we need to take our marriage seriously and make it the top priority.
Our kids don’t need our attention 100% of the time. We want to model to our kids that as a family mom and dad prioritize their marriage. Invest in your marriage and get away and go on dates. It is healthier for everyone in the long haul.
Decide you priorities. As a christian couple your priority should be to love each other well and to pursue each other. This will then lead to healthy parenting. Your kids won’t be missing out. They will receive the blessings of your healthy marriage.
Practically the Jacobsons have created and carved out a time every morning where they have coffee together as a couple. Their kids were invited to be there but they knew that it was their time as a couple and that they could be a part of it but not take away from it.
“This brought peace to our home because our kids knew that we were stable and in love. This helped them feel very secure.” -Jacobsons
Parents are often the victim of their children’s urgency. But we need to decide who is going to establish the culture in our homes. As parents we should establish the culture and then invite our kids into this. Kids who set the culture will not have a good set of boundaries. They will feel more secure and well rounded if they are invited into our culture that we set as parents.
Fight for your date nights! Share with your kids why your going out. Let them see what it looks like to fight for marriage and help them to understand the health behind pursuing each other after marriage. We are our kids greatest role models.
If we aren’t intentional then we will lose valuable time to less important things. We need to make sure our priorities are straight and that are time matches what we say are our priorities.
Go check out their podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/faithful-life/id1455150061
Follow them on social at: @club31women & @Faithfulman