Married for Life

Leanne Morgan exudes southern charm. She is a naturally funny storyteller who gives an honest look at life and the challenges of keeping her husband happy while juggling all the busyness of everyday living! Leanne will take you on a hilarious journey through motherhood and beyond as she finds comedy amidst the chaos.

We enjoy a lively conversation today with Jim and Carol Shores, also known as "Acts of Renewal." Their heart's desire is to create and produce excellent theatre that glorifies God leading audiences toward hope, goodness, and hunger for God in Christ.

Jim and Carol share their love story with us ... which like all love stories has had its ups and downs.

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We cannot expect to become mentally intimate with our spouse without work. We have to discover our spouse’s intelligence, choose to learn, listen, and become acquainted with their interests. Make a deliberate choice to discover what makes your spouse tick, and how they are wired differently than you are.

We all can identify with the fact that we think differently than our spouse! For example, when Jay says “Let’s go into the city”, he means, “Let’s go test drive cars.” I (Laura) think he means, “Let’s go shopping at the mall!”

When we begin to accept our differences mentally, we begin to experience the joy of mental intimacy.

Social intimacy is the foundation of a great marriage: playing together, enjoying each other’s company, taking a walk, test driving a car. It begins by blending many of the interests of your two lives into one.

A simple way to build social intimacy into your marriage is to spend time together. It seems obvious, but for some reason, when we get married, we can forget to date. It can be a struggle to find time to spend together and nurture social intimacy.

We stand at the altar and say “I do.” The marriage begins. Life settles in, careers, cars to buy, a mortgage and obligations. Children are born, more obligations. Careers take off, and responsibilities rise. Suddenly we discover that our friendship as well as the time to nurture it no longer exists. Oh sure, we have friends, just not each other!

Social intimacy is recapturing friendship in your relationship. It all comes down to dating your spouse and blending your individual interests together.

We believe the key to unlocking celebration in your marriage begins with something we all desire - intimacy.

Intimacy is a tough subject because it means so many things to so many people.

Intimacy actually exists in five different facets of life. Each facet is essential in developing authentic intimacy. The five facets are Social Intimacy, Mental Intimacy, Emotional Intimacy, Physical Intimacy, and Spiritual Intimacy.

God desires that you and your husband have a wonderful satisfying sex life. That begins when you pursue each other.

On this episode, we take a lesson from football to make your marriage a winning team. Let’s talk about playing offense, playing defense and the importance of practice. In the end, it’s good to know who your biggest fan is … your spouse!

On this episode, we answer another question from a listener: "How can I hold my wife's attention just long enough to have eye contact without her looking at her phone for text messages or emails?"