Live Your Best Marriage Podcast

You can be great at paying bills, raising children, managing schedules, solving problems, and keeping the household running, yet still feel disconnected from the person you married.

In this episode of Live Your Best Marriage, Pesa talks with relationship communication coach Rebecca Mullen, host of Habits for Your Happily Ever After and author of Six Steps to Better Marriage Communication, about her Partner, Friend, and Lover framework.

Rebecca explains that many couples become extremely good partners. They know how to get things done. But over time, the responsibilities of marriage can crowd out friendship, play, affection, curiosity, and romance.

One of the most practical ideas in this conversation is that your complaints can help reveal what may be missing in your marriage. If you feel misunderstood, the friendship may need attention. If one spouse feels like they are carrying all the responsibilities, the partnership may be out of balance. If affection, play, kissing, or romance have disappeared, the lover relationship may need to be rebuilt.

Pesa and Rebecca also talk honestly about what happens when one spouse is a natural go-getter while the other values slowing down, talking, and enjoying the moment. Pesa shares how his own drive to accomplish and provide sometimes made it difficult to simply sit with Whitney and enjoy time together, and how learning to release some control eventually made family time, travel, and even everyday responsibilities more enjoyable.

Rebecca introduces what she calls the “dirty ask” and the “clean ask.” A dirty ask sounds like criticism, hinting, or expecting your spouse to read your mind. A clean ask begins by naming how you feel, stating what you desire, and then making a clear request your spouse can actually answer.

The conversation also explores how couples can talk about unmet needs without making their spouse feel like a failure, why boundaries should come after clear communication and agreements, and how curiosity can help couples understand what is really happening instead of immediately blaming one another.

Another important theme is control. Sometimes helping turns into controlling when we give our spouse responsibility but still insist that they complete it exactly the way we would. Pesa shares how learning to step back and trust Whitney with things like grocery shopping and travel planning reduced conflict and allowed her strengths to emerge in ways he had not expected.

Rebecca describes friendship as the bridge between partnership and romance. The partner gets things done. The lover brings play, affection, and vitality. The friend helps both people slow down, become curious, understand one another, and remember that they are not enemies.

The United Front takeaway is simple: a strong marriage needs more than good teamwork.

Couples need to be able to accomplish things together, but they also need friendship, curiosity, affection, play, and intentional connection. The goal is not to eliminate the responsible partner side of marriage. It is to make sure the responsibilities of life do not bury the friendship and romance that brought you together in the first place.

Are culture, family expectations, divided loyalties, or outside pressures making it harder for you and your spouse to stay connected and on the same side?

Take the free United Front Quiz at:

https://liveyourbestmarriage.com/quiz

In just a few minutes, you will discover where your marriage is strong, where family or cultural pressure may be creating a gap, and your next step toward becoming a true united front.

Rebecca’s book, Six Steps to Better Marriage Communication, is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and her website. You can also listen to her podcast, Habits for Your Happily Ever After.

Live Your Best Marriage helps cross-cultural Christian couples stop fighting each other and start facing culture, in-laws, loyalty conflicts, family expectations, and outside pressure as one united front.

Your children are listening to more than what you say directly to them. They are also listening to how Mom and Dad speak to each other, how you handle frustration, how you disagree, how you apologize, and what happens when someone makes a mistake.

In this episode of Live Your Best Marriage, Pesa talks with author and parenting educator Jodi Hill about how the words used inside a marriage and family can shape a child’s confidence, identity, resilience, and understanding of relationships.

Jodi is the author of The Parent’s Secret Super Power: Seven Simple Strategies to Raise Confident and Capable Kids With the Power of Words. Her message grew out of one of the most difficult seasons of her own life, when she went through a divorce and became deeply intentional about helping her children walk through the experience without allowing the conflict between their parents to define them.

One of Jodi’s central lessons is that correction does not have to become a label.

There is a significant difference between telling a child, “Your room is a mess,” and telling them, “You are a mess.” Words such as lazy, irresponsible, clumsy, or a disaster can become identity statements that children begin carrying into other areas of their lives.

Pesa and Jodi also explore a challenge that many cross-cultural couples experience. One parent may believe children need encouragement and affirmation, while the other was raised to believe that pushing children harder is what prepares them for success.

Jodi explains that accountability and encouragement do not have to compete. Parents can expect responsibility, consequences, hard work, and high standards without using shame to motivate their children.

The conversation also explores:

How everyday words become part of a child’s inner voice

Why correction should focus on behavior instead of attacking identity

How parents can teach responsibility without shame

Why children need to see their parents handle frustration in healthy ways

How husbands and wives from different cultures can become a united front in parenting

Why parenting disagreements should usually be worked through privately instead of undermining each other in front of the children

How parents can establish shared nonnegotiables even when their parenting styles are different

Why children should not be recruited into conflict between divorced parents

How criticizing your child’s other parent can affect the child’s own sense of identity

The additional challenges that come with blended families

How high-achieving families can teach children that mistakes are part of learning without lowering standards

How parents can remain a trusted voice when children are also hearing messages from friends, teachers, entertainment, social media, and culture

And what parents can do when they realize they have already said things that may have hurt their children.

One of Jodi’s strongest reminders is that it is never too late to repair. Parents can acknowledge what they have said, apologize specifically, ask how it affected their child, and commit to changing how they communicate going forward.

The United Front takeaway is that raising confident children begins with more than agreeing on discipline. Children also need to experience Mom and Dad treating each other with respect.

When parents constantly criticize, shame, undermine, or dishonor each other, children are learning from that interaction too. When husbands and wives learn to disagree, apologize, repair, and speak respectfully, they are giving their children a model for how healthy relationships handle conflict.

If you and your spouse come from different cultures, families, or parenting traditions, the goal is not for one background to win. The goal is to decide together what kind of home you want to create and what you want your children to experience from both of you.

Are culture, family expectations, parenting differences, or divided loyalties making it harder for you and your spouse to stay on the same side?

Take the free United Front Quiz at:

https://liveyourbestmarriage.com/quiz

In just a few minutes, you will discover where your marriage is strong, where family and cultural pressure may be creating a gap, and your next step toward becoming a true united front.

Learn more about Jodi Hill, The Parent’s Secret Super Power, and her free Confidence Boosters and Busters guide at:

https://mysecretsuperpower.com

Live Your Best Marriage helps cross-cultural Christian couples stop fighting each other and start facing culture, parenting differences, in-laws, loyalty conflicts, and family expectations as one united front.

Couples can spend months planning a wedding while barely discussing the marriage they are about to build.

In this episode of Live Your Best Marriage, Pesa talks with Christian marriage and premarital coach Veronica Sutherland about the conversations couples need to have before marriage and what married couples can do when they discover they entered marriage carrying very different expectations.

Drawing from more than 40 years of marriage and decades of family life education, Veronica shares that when she got married, she expected love and their shared Christian faith to make marriage relatively smooth. But she and her husband had never seriously discussed finances, family involvement, roles, or many of the expectations they had absorbed from the homes in which they were raised.

Pesa also shares how this showed up in his own cross-cultural marriage. He grew up expecting children to be named after grandparents, while Whitney came into marriage with a very different expectation about who would choose their children's names. Neither assumption seemed unusual until they had to make the decision together.

The conversation explores why couples often prepare more carefully for the wedding than for the marriage, and why being deeply in love does not automatically prepare two people to navigate money, faith, parenting, conflict, family loyalty, or cultural differences.

Pesa and Veronica discuss the important conversations couples need to have about finances, including spending and saving habits, as well as how involved parents and extended family will be in the marriage. They also examine questions about borrowing money from family, unannounced visits, religious practices, church involvement, and how children will be raised in the faith.

For cross-cultural couples, some of the hardest conversations involve family loyalty. Who comes first after marriage? How involved will parents be? Will money be sent to extended family? What happens when one spouse believes supporting parents and siblings is a lifelong responsibility while the other believes no money should leave the household without mutual agreement?

Veronica encourages couples to move beyond arguing about which family or culture is right. Instead, they can talk about what each family taught them, decide what values they want to carry forward, and intentionally create the family culture they want for their own marriage.

The conversation also explores how couples can make decisions about sending money to extended family by understanding why the support matters, how much is actually needed, how often money will be sent, and what boundaries will guide future requests.

For Christian couples, Veronica emphasizes that sharing the label Christian does not eliminate the need for difficult conversations. Couples still need to discuss prayer, church, giving, leadership, communication, individual goals, sacrifice, and what a Christ-centered marriage will actually look like in everyday life. She reminds couples that communication should be about understanding one another rather than winning an argument.

And if you are already married and realizing you never had these conversations, it is not too late. Veronica encourages married couples to begin now, remembering that these conversations are not something you complete once. Marriage continually requires couples to revisit expectations, forgive each other, pray together, and learn to see their spouse as a partner rather than an enemy.

The United Front takeaway is simple: love is essential, but love should not be used to avoid important conversations.

Strong marriages are built when couples are willing to honestly discuss faith, family, money, parenting, conflict, culture, expectations, and the future they are creating together. The goal is not for one person's family, culture, or expectations to win. The goal is to understand what each person is bringing into the marriage and learn how to make decisions together under God.

Are culture, in-laws, family expectations, money, or divided loyalties making it harder for you and your spouse to stay on the same side?

Take the free United Front Quiz at:

https://liveyourbestmarriage.com/quiz

In just a few minutes, you will discover where your marriage is strong, where family and cultural pressure may be creating a gap, and your next step toward becoming a true united front.

Veronica is also the author of The Unshakable Foundation: A Faith-Guided Conversation to Prepare for a Marriage That Honors God. The book helps couples work through expectations, family of origin, finances, warning signs, and other conversations that are important before marriage.

Live Your Best Marriage helps cross-cultural Christian couples stop fighting each other and start facing culture, in-laws, loyalty conflicts, family expectations, and boundaries as one united front.

You can accomplish a lot, understand yourself better, and even do years of personal growth. But can your spouse and family actually experience the difference?

In this episode of Live Your Best Marriage, Pesa talks with writer Daniel Sterling about achievement, identity, emotional growth, fatherhood, relationships, and what happens when a man begins examining not only what he is accomplishing, but who he is becoming.

Daniel grew up in Aspen and became a nationally ranked alpine ski racer. Yet even finishing among the best in the country never felt like enough. He carried that same drive into television, filmmaking, and screenwriting until, at 39, he reached a painful realization: he had spent years striving without really understanding himself.

That realization began a much deeper journey.

With the help of a mentor and a small community, Daniel started confronting his tendency to withdraw, isolate, become defensive, need to be right, and disappear emotionally when life became difficult.

Instead of simply learning more about himself, he began practicing a different way of relating to the people around him.

In this conversation, Pesa and Daniel explore:

Why achievement can build grit while still leaving deeper parts of a man undeveloped

What happens when nothing you accomplish ever feels like enough

How ambition can become part of your identity

Why men sometimes withdraw when they are struggling instead of letting their families in

How an examined life helps you recognize destructive patterns before they control you

Why understanding your past is different from living trapped inside it

How relationships and community can reveal things about us that we cannot see alone

Why speaking honestly about your struggles can create deeper connection

What happens when one spouse begins growing while the other is uncomfortable with the change

Why personal growth should eventually become visible in how you show up as a husband, father, and friend

And one of Daniel’s most important questions:

What fills me? What is important to me? What do I genuinely want to do with the life I have been given?

The United Front takeaway is simple: personal growth is not measured only by what you understand about yourself. Your spouse and family should eventually experience the difference in the way you communicate, remain present during difficult moments, take responsibility for your reactions, and stay connected instead of withdrawing or becoming defensive.

Becoming a better man is not only about what changes inside you. It is also about whether those changes make you a better husband, father, friend, and partner to the people who live closest to you.

Are culture, family expectations, divided loyalties, or outside pressures making it harder for you and your spouse to stay on the same side?

Take the free United Front Quiz at:

https://liveyourbestmarriage.com/quiz

In just a few minutes, you will discover where your marriage is strong, where family or cultural pressure may be creating a gap, and your next step toward becoming a true united front.

You can follow Daniel Sterling’s writing, forthcoming memoir, and reflections on personal growth and relationships through his Substack and Instagram under Daniel Sterling Writer.

Live Your Best Marriage helps cross-cultural Christian couples stop fighting each other and start facing culture, family pressure, divided loyalties, and outside expectations as one united front.

What happens when your spouse keeps choosing their family of origin over you?

There may be no affair, secret life, or dramatic betrayal. But when every family request, holiday decision, financial need, or crisis leaves one spouse standing alone, the message can slowly become clear:

“You are my partner until my family needs something.”

In this episode of Live Your Best Marriage, Pesa talks with bilingual licensed marriage and family therapist Gilza Fort Martinez about a form of betrayal that many couples feel but struggle to name.

Gilza explains why repeatedly prioritizing parents, siblings, or extended family over your spouse can damage loyalty, emotional safety, and trust, even when the spouse causing the hurt never intended to do anything wrong.

The conversation explores:

Why family loyalty can begin to feel like betrayal

The early signs that extended-family pressure is weakening your marriage

Why “I didn’t do anything wrong” can make the hurt worse

How cultural expectations about honoring parents can collide with marital loyalty

The difference between protecting your marriage and isolating your spouse from family

Why taking every marital disagreement back to your parents can create resentment

How to decide what stays private between husband and wife

Why a sincere apology requires changed behavior, not just words

How to set loving but firm boundaries with parents and in-laws

What happens when financial help from family comes with expectations

How cross-cultural couples can honor their heritage without allowing extended family to govern their marriage

Why real-time family pressure requires one powerful skill: pause before answering

Gilza also shares her four-part navigational framework: Rest, Reflect, Reset, and Re-engage.

Instead of immediately answering a family request, couples can slow down, remember the agreements they have made with each other, decide together, and then return to the family with one united answer.

The United Front takeaway is simple:

The marriage gets the first conversation. The extended family gets the united answer afterward.

Honoring your parents does not require abandoning your spouse.

A healthy marriage makes room for love and respect toward family while still making it clear that your husband or wife is no longer just one voice among many.

Are culture, in-laws, family expectations, money requests, or divided loyalties making your spouse feel second?

Take the free United Front Quiz at:

https://liveyourbestmarriage.com/quiz

In just a few minutes, you will discover where your marriage is strong, where family and cultural pressure may be creating a gap, and your next step toward becoming a true united front.

Gilza is also the author of Loud Whispers, which explores what happens when concerns we keep minimizing or silencing eventually become impossible to ignore.

Learn more about Gilza and her work at:

https://www.gilzafort.com

Live Your Best Marriage helps cross-cultural Christian couples stop fighting each other and start facing culture, in-laws, loyalty conflicts, family expectations, and boundaries as one united front.

Have you ever understood exactly why you and your spouse keep repeating the same pattern, yet when the moment arrives, you still react the same way?

You know who pursues. You know who withdraws. You know what triggers the argument. You may even know what you are supposed to say differently.

But then your body takes over.

In this episode of Live Your Best Marriage, Pesa talks with relationship and intimacy coach Natalie Vartanian and somatic practitioner Glen Nelson about why insight alone may not be enough to change a marriage.

Natalie and Glen explain how old relationship patterns can live not only in our thoughts, but also in the way our bodies respond to conflict. A tone of voice, a facial expression, touch, silence, or posture can trigger a reaction that feels much bigger than what is actually happening in the moment.

The conversation explores:

Why highly capable couples can become highly functional but emotionally disconnected

How one spouse can slowly lose their voice, needs, or identity inside the relationship

What the body can reveal before you even have words for what you are feeling

Why a reaction that feels much bigger than the situation may be connected to an older wound

How culture, family history, and childhood experiences can influence the nervous system

Why one spouse’s normal communication style may feel threatening or dismissive to the other

How couples can stop making every reaction personal

Why understanding a pattern intellectually does not automatically change the body’s response

How spouses can help create a new relationship experience without becoming responsible for managing each other’s emotions

Why conscious intimacy requires intentional time, curiosity, gratitude, and honest conversation

How couples can move from being efficient roommates back toward connected partners

And why creating a shared vision, or a North Star for the marriage, can help couples build something new instead of endlessly reliving the past

The United Front takeaway is simple: your spouse is not necessarily the threat, even when your body reacts as though they are.

A united front means becoming curious about what is happening underneath the reaction, taking responsibility for your own triggers, and learning how to create new patterns together instead of repeatedly fighting yesterday’s wounds in today’s marriage.

Are culture, family expectations, in-laws, old patterns, or divided loyalties making it harder for you and your spouse to stay on the same side?

Take the free United Front Quiz at:

https://liveyourbestmarriage.com/quiz

In just a few minutes, you will discover where your marriage is strong, where family or cultural pressure may be creating a gap, and your next step toward becoming a true united front.

Learn more about Natalie Vartanian and Glen Nelson, download their relationship ground rules, and explore their resources at:

https://wakeuporbreakup.com

Live Your Best Marriage helps cross-cultural Christian couples stop fighting each other and start facing culture, in-laws, loyalty conflicts, family expectations, old patterns, and boundaries as one united front.

When your spouse raises a concern, how do you know whether you are dealing with today’s problem or reacting to something from your past?

In this episode of Live Your Best Marriage, Pesa talks with Stephanie McAlister, founder of Virtual Connect, about how past relationships, childhood experiences, anxiety, betrayal, and emotional wounds can quietly shape the way couples communicate today.

Stephanie explains why a legitimate marriage problem and an emotional trigger do not always have to be separated. Both can be real at the same time. Your past may intensify your reaction while your spouse may still be raising something that genuinely needs attention.

The conversation explores:

How past experiences influence present-day conflict

Why saying “that’s just your trauma” can dismiss a legitimate concern

How couples can stop treating each other like the enemy

Why friendship gives spouses more room to assume the best about each other

What to do when an argument starts escalating

Why taking space is different from stonewalling

How to step away from conflict while clearly communicating when you will return

How couples can show compassion without excusing hurtful behavior

When outside professional support may be helpful

Why counseling can carry different meanings in different cultures

Gottman’s Four Horsemen: criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling

Why “that’s just how we do it in my culture” does not make an unhealthy pattern healthy

How couples can create a new family culture together

Why repair looks different for different couples

And Stephanie’s practical “I hear, I feel” technique for stopping mind-reading before it turns into another fight

The United Front takeaway is simple: your past may influence how you respond, but it does not have to govern your marriage.

Your spouse is not your enemy, and your spouse is not your therapist. A healthy marriage creates room for honesty, compassion, accountability, personal responsibility, support, and repair.

Are culture, family expectations, old wounds, in-laws, or divided loyalties making it harder for you and your spouse to stay on the same side?

Take the free United Front Quiz at:

https://liveyourbestmarriage.com/quiz

In just a few minutes, you will discover where your marriage is strong, where family or cultural pressure may be creating a gap, and your next step toward becoming a true united front.

Learn more about Stephanie McAlister and Virtual Connect at:

https://virtualconnect.ca

Virtual Connect offers individual and couples counseling across Canada, including a free 15-minute discovery call.

Live Your Best Marriage helps cross-cultural Christian couples stop fighting each other and start facing culture, in-laws, loyalty conflicts, family expectations, and boundaries as one united front.

You set a boundary, but nothing changes. Your spouse feels controlled. Your parents feel rejected. You feel guilty. So was it really a boundary?

In this episode of Live Your Best Marriage, Pesa talks with relationship and boundary coach Nancy Pickard about what healthy boundaries actually look like inside marriage and extended family relationships.

Nancy explains one of the biggest misunderstandings about boundaries: a boundary is not primarily about controlling what another person does. It is about becoming clear on what you need, communicating it respectfully, and deciding what you will do if that boundary is not honored.

The conversation explores:

Why people-pleasing can eventually create resentment

The difference between a boundary, a request, an ultimatum, and control

Why you should not set a boundary you are unwilling to keep

How to communicate a boundary without attacking your spouse

Why “I feel X when you do Y. Would you be willing to do Z?” can completely change a difficult conversation

How husbands and wives can become a united front when setting boundaries with in-laws

Why cross-cultural couples can experience intense guilt when saying no to parents or older relatives

How financial help from parents can complicate marital boundaries

Why money from family often comes with expectations

How couples can respect their heritage without allowing previous generations to govern their marriage

Why vulnerability may be one of the hardest emotional mountains couples need to climb

And why healthy marriages are not free from conflict. They learn how to repair after conflict.

The United Front takeaway is simple: boundaries should protect the relationship, not punish people.

A husband and wife need to decide together what they will allow into their marriage, communicate those decisions as “we” instead of blaming one spouse, and remain respectful even when family members disagree.

Are culture, in-laws, family expectations, divided loyalty, or guilt making it difficult for you and your spouse to protect your marriage together?

Take the free United Front Quiz at:

https://liveyourbestmarriage.com/quiz

In just a few minutes, you will discover where your marriage is strong, where family or cultural pressure may be creating a gap, and your next step toward becoming a true united front.

Learn more about Nancy Pickard, her coaching, and her resources at:

https://nancypickardlifecoach.com

Live Your Best Marriage helps cross-cultural Christian couples stop fighting each other and start facing culture, in-laws, loyalty conflicts, family expectations, and boundaries as one united front.

Many men say their wife and children are the most important people in their lives. But when pressure hits, what does their family actually experience?

In this episode of Live Your Best Marriage, Pesa talks with Travis Murray, host of Man in Progress: Forging Manhood, about the difference between the values men say they have and the values their everyday behavior reveals.

Travis shares openly about work pressure, panic attacks, people-pleasing, emotional defensiveness, and reaching a point where the life he was living no longer matched the husband and father he wanted to be.

The conversation explores why a wife’s concern can feel like an attack, how men can recognize what happens inside their body before defensiveness takes over, and why taking a short pause can help them return to difficult conversations instead of running from them.

They also discuss:

How inherited beliefs about manhood quietly shape marriage

Why men can treat their wives like the enemy when they actually feel overwhelmed

The difference between aspirational values and the values your behavior reveals

Why your calendar and spending show what you truly prioritize

How working hard and paying the bills can still leave your family feeling emotionally neglected

Why saying “I’m sorry” is only the beginning of repair

How follow-through and changed behavior complete an apology

Why boundaries matter when work begins competing with family

How Travis uses his SWORD framework to help men realign their lives with their values

What fathers are teaching their children about communication, apology, boundaries, and manhood

The United Front takeaway is simple: saying that your family comes first is not enough. Your spouse and children should be able to experience that priority in how you spend your time, make decisions, handle pressure, repair mistakes, and show up at home.

Your spouse is not the enemy. The pressure, old patterns, defensiveness, and divided priorities are the problems you need to face together.

Are work, family expectations, culture, divided loyalties, or repeated conflict making it harder for you and your spouse to stay on the same side?

Take the free United Front Quiz at:

https://liveyourbestmarriage.com/quiz

In just a few minutes, you will discover where your marriage is strong, where it may be vulnerable to family and cultural pressure, and your next step toward becoming a true united front.

Listen to Travis Murray on Man in Progress: Forging Manhood and follow his work for more conversations about values, marriage, fatherhood, communication, and becoming the man your family can trust.

Live Your Best Marriage helps cross-cultural Christian couples stop fighting each other and start facing culture, in-laws, loyalty conflicts, family expectations, work pressure, and boundaries as one united front.

What happens when you become the husband or father you promised yourself you would never become?

In this episode of Live Your Best Marriage, Pesa Shayo talks with men’s transformational coach Mike Forrester about generational patterns, anger, fear, shame, forgiveness, and what it takes for a man to become safer and more present with his wife and children.

Mike shares openly about recognizing his own father’s words and behaviors coming out of his mouth, even after promising himself he would parent differently. He explains how unresolved childhood pain can quietly shape a man’s marriage and fatherhood, why anger often becomes the only emotion some men know how to express, and how fragile pride can make correction feel like an attack.

The conversation explores how men can take responsibility without being trapped in shame, why explaining where a behavior came from is different from excusing it, and why lasting change has to begin with the man himself rather than waiting for his wife or children to change first.

They also discuss:

How childhood patterns repeat without us realizing it

Why children may begin managing a father’s anger instead of trusting him

How a wife can raise concerns when her husband is already carrying deep insecurity

Why rebuilding trust takes longer than simply saying “I’ve changed”

How forgiveness can free a man without pretending the past was acceptable

Why boundaries and forgiveness can exist together

How fathers can ask their children what has hurt them and actually listen

Why it is never too late to become a different husband, father, and eventually grandfather

The United Front takeaway is simple: your spouse and children are not your enemies. The pain you inherited does not have to become the pain you pass down.

A united front begins when we stop defending destructive patterns, take responsibility for what we are bringing into the home, and become the kind of husband and father our family can trust.

Are anger, family-of-origin patterns, culture, loyalty conflicts, or old wounds making it harder for you and your spouse to stay on the same side?

Take the free United Front Quiz at:

https://liveyourbestmarriage.com/quiz

In just a few minutes, you will discover where your marriage is strong, where it may be vulnerable to family and cultural pressure, and your next step toward becoming a true united front.

Mike also offers a free anger assessment for men who want to better understand what may be underneath their anger:

https://whatsbehindyouranger.com

Listen to Mike’s Living Fearless Today podcast and follow his work for more help breaking generational patterns and becoming a more present husband and father.

Live Your Best Marriage helps cross-cultural Christian couples stop fighting each other and start facing culture, in-laws, loyalty conflicts, family expectations, old family patterns, and boundaries as one united front.