Saving Us

Saving Us

By Michael & Detra CarterSociety & CultureRelationships
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Saving Us episodes

  • Episode 5 - Getting Married Early or Late?

    Are there any advantages or disadvantages to getting married early in life or waiting until you're a little more established? Marriage is a decision you don't want to rush into. Ultimately, it depends on factors like your personality, your goals, your purpose in life, and even things like where you live and how you were raised. You'll have to make the final decision, but let's discuss some pros and cons.

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    31 min
  • Episode 5 - Getting Married Early or Late?

    Are there any advantages or disadvantages to getting married early in life or waiting until you're a little more established? Marriage is a decision you don't want to rush into. Ultimately, it depends on factors like your personality, your goals, your purpose in life, and even things like where you live and how you were raised. You'll have to make the final decision, but let's discuss some pros and cons.

    31 min
  • Episode 5 - Getting Married Early or Late?

    Are there any advantages or disadvantages to getting married early in life or waiting until you're a little more established? Marriage is a decision you don't want to rush into. Ultimately, it depends on factors like your personality, your goals, your purpose in life, and even things like where you live and how you were raised. You'll have to make the final decision, but let's discuss some pros and cons.

    31 min
  • Episode 4 Blended Families Pt 2

    In today’s episode, we are going to continue our discussion on Blended Families – Soups or Salads And specifically, how blended families affect the children. In our previous episode on blended families, we stated that stepfamily studies suggest about 60 to 70 percent of marriages involving children from a previous marriage fail. Since about 46% of marriages are what we consider to be nuclear families, that means 54% of families are some kind of alternate families.

    29 min
  • Episode 4 Blended Families Pt 2

    In today’s episode, we are going to continue our discussion on Blended Families – Soups or Salads And specifically, how blended families affect the children. In our previous episode on blended families, we stated that stepfamily studies suggest about 60 to 70 percent of marriages involving children from a previous marriage fail. Since about 46% of marriages are what we consider to be nuclear families, that means 54% of families are some kind of alternate families.

    29 min
  • Episode 3 Blended Families Pt. 1

    Even though blended families are very common, there are still challenges that affect both the marriage and the children if there are any. They can be soups or salads. Are they soup where you can't really tell what's in it, but it still tastes good, or salads, where every thing is tossed together and you can still see all of the individual parts? Either way, they can be successful with a little work.

    26 min
  • Episode 3 Blended Families Pt. 1

    Even though blended families are very common, there are still challenges that affect both the marriage and the children if there are any. They can be soups or salads. Are they soup where you can't really tell what's in it, but it still tastes good, or salads, where every thing is tossed together and you can still see all of the individual parts? Either way, they can be successful with a little work.

    26 min
  • Episode 2 Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

    Men and Women are different. How they approach relationships is different also. Understanding how your boyfriend/girlfriend, spouse, approaches your relationship may help you understand them. Most of us want to be understood. Someone once said that "Maturity is not when we start speaking big things, it's when we start understanding small things.

    31 min
  • Episode 2 Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

    Men and Women are different. How they approach relationships is different also. Understanding how your boyfriend/girlfriend, spouse, approaches your relationship may help you understand them. Most of us want to be understood. Someone once said that "Maturity is not when we start speaking big things, it's when we start understanding small things.

    31 min
  • Episode 1 Getting to Know Us

    In this first episode of Saving Us, we're going to talk a little bit about who we are and why we're doing this podcast. We will discuss friendship in marriage and the thought of being empty-nesters. 

    26 min

About Saving Us

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In this podcast we discuss relationships in marriage, family and beyond. Michael and Detra Carter are marriage veterans who have a desire to help others experience fulfillment in their relationships.…