Happy, Healthy Marriage Podcast with Chris Parsons

My wife and I recently had a very scary week where Doctors told her that she had breast cancer. I made the first part of this video about how we were handling it before we found out that fortunately, our prayers were answered and it turned out to be wrong.

Best friends aren't lovers, and lovers aren't best friends. Don't be your spouse's best friend - be their lover!

You don't need to have things in common with your partner - my wife and I don't have anything in common. We don't like the same music or the same activities, and that's completely fine because we're lovers - not best friends, even though she's my favorite person in the world. Here's the difference!

When my wife told me she was done because of how toxic and disconnected our marriage had become, I was devastated....

The Break Up (2006) featuring Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston had many lessons we can learn (both good and bad) about how to handle a break up or request for divorce

If your spouse has told you they want a Divorce or they are done, you can (and maybe already have tried) these 3 steps to save your marriage, but I warn you - it's a terrible idea. So I'm also sharing what to do INSTEAD.

Emotional, deep, impactful. I did an exercise to write a letter to myself from the future as an 80 year old. I tried, really really tried not to cry, but the end just got me. Maybe it will get you too.

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Regret is what we feel when we focus on the past, instead of learning the lessons that the past has to teach us and focusing on what we can do with it now.

My wife was distant and disconnected, so I expressed my feelings in a useful way. It got her to be kind, affectionate, and loving, BUT... I didn't feel heard because she hadn't told me I was right to feel the way I did.

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Here's what's new & different in The Happy, Healthy Marriage Reset + why I wrote a separate book that just came out, The Happy Healthy Marriage Reset Christians' Guide.

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Feeling anxious with all the uncertainty in your marriage? There are three steps to permanently end anxiety. I remember having a panic attack thinking I was dying because my marriage was falling apart... Here's what I discovered - and yes, medication was part of it, but that didn't fix the underlying problem - it just helped me deal with the symptoms while I dealt with the ROOT.

NOTE: I said the medication my Doctor prescribed was Adipex, but I was totally off - it was called Buspar. It's been years since I took it and had to check!