Love is difficult to quantify, but we can answer the question "How much do you love me?" by our CONSISTENT ACTIONS that show our spouse we care.

Parents have always lived vicariously through their children, but how much of what our children do should be "for their parents?" Today we look at how we might best strike the balance between passing on our values to our chidren and allowing them to develop values, preferences, and passions all their own.

There might be some fashion trends, electronic habits, and physical capabilities we just might not be cut out for after a certain age. But there also might be more serious areas of life where, now that we're old enough, we just can't use age as an excuse any longer. 

What if you could meet your 15-year-old self for a cup of coffee? What would you say? What would you notice? Today Jordan and Rosanna hop on the viral TikTok trend and compose poems visualizing meeting their teenage selves in this thought provoking and emotional reflection. 

We have often sought to label ourselves and one another as either introverted or extraverted...but the truth is that most of us are somewhere in between, and we need to become aware of our social tendencies, our strengths, our weaknesses.

Our relationships are made of thousands of "bids," requesting connection from one moment to the next. How we seek and respond to these bids may just be the most important thing in our marriage and parenting. 

Everyone gets a little lonely sometimes...but in today's era, loneliness is a downright epidemic that is sweeping across the population. With more ways to connect than ever, you'd think we'd feel less lonely, but the truth is we've replaced any of our opportunities for interaction with tech-based conveniences, isolating ourselves. Today we examine the causes of loneliness and the things we can do to combat the corrosive habits of our culture.

*We apologize for the audio glitches throughout the episode!

Sometimes we're climbing, sometimes we're growing...and sometimes we're simply maintaining what we have. There's nothing glamorous about the maintenance phases of life, but they are a healthy and necessary part of the long game toward self-fulfillment.

Let's dream big dreams for ourselves in 2025...AND let's make sure we actually put the WORK into turning those dreams into realities!

One year ago, we ended 2023 with an episode expressing some disappointment over how much effort we put into our goals but weren't seeing the results. BUT at the end of 2024, we ARE seeing the results we had worked towards. In this final episode of the year, we share what we're proud of and what we credit our progress to.