Your Marriage Matters

Hey gang ... 

Welcome to this week's YOUR Marriage Matterz podcast episode YMM #050 Marriage Power Skill #1 ... Learning To Effectively Communicate!

At the root of the vast majority of marital challenges lies the same 2 culprits ... 

• The inability to effectively communicate
• The inability to effectively solve problems together

When a couple makes a decision to tackle and master these two key "Power Skills" then everything else from there on can be handled! Money, parenting, sex, family and every other marital challenge is a subset of communication and conflict resolution. 

This week we are tackling communication and are giving us all a very powerful and immediately applicable set of skills to assist us all in becoming better communicators! Next week we will tackle conflict resolution with one of our favorite skill sets! 

If you want to download the handout for this week's episode Click Here! 

To register for The Cupid Challenge go to www.thecupidchallenge.com ! It is going to be a blast ... 

Until next week ... 

Jim & Christie Jacobus 

Hey gang ... 

Welcome to YOUR Marriage Matterz podcast episode #049! We have a special treat for you in this one as Team Jacobus interviews Wedding Industry Expert Amanda Meeker Vela ... and boy does she have some incredible insights for us all!

We recommend getting out your notepads and you might want to grab a box of Kleenex as well! This is some really good stuff Amanda shares with us as she reflects on her own marriage, her parents marriage and her work in the wedding industry both on the photography and video perspective as well as being a co-owner and Director of Business Development for The Meekermark wedding venue. To learn more about the venue or their amazing wedding photography go to www.themeekermark.com !

Also, if you haven't signed up for The Cupid Challenge we encourage you to do so! We are just a few days away from launching this 14 day fun event on February 1st! Each day you will receive an e-mail with a short video giving us all a fun, easy to do challenge designed to help develop a more vibrant healthy marriage!

We trust you will enjoy this awesome interview with Amanda Meeker Vela! 

Jim & Christie Jacobus 

Hey gang ...

Welcome to YOUR Marriage Matterz podcast episode #048 where this week Team Jacobus Answers "What Are The Biggest Threats To YOUR Marriage In 2019?"

We are regularly asked this questions in the workshops that we do and were just asked it again the other day so we thought why not tackle it right from the get go here at the beginning of 2019! Our answers about what to do about them may surprise you!

Also, we are well under way in getting people signed up for "The Cupid Challenge"! This 14 day challenge will begin on February 1st and will end on February 14th which is, of course, Valentine's Day!

This is going to be a fun filled time of doing simple things each day to be more intentional about building more vibrant healthy marriages! Every day you will receive an e-mail from us with a short video describing our challenge for the day. We are excited to hear what you come up with each day!

To sign up you can ... 

1. Go to the website www.thecupidchallenge.com and register there!
2. You can go to our Facebook Group "Your Marriage Matterz" and sign up there and join the FB group if you haven't already. To go to the FB Group Click Here!

Again, this is going to be a lot of fun so we invite you to join us!

Jim & Christie Jacobus 

Hey gang ... 

Welcome to YOUR Marriage Matterz podcast episode #047 ... Team Jacobus Answers 2 Great Questions About Conflict! 

Day in and day out we regularly receive questions that have to do with conflict in marriage. Those questions consistently revolve around people who avoid conflict and people that always seem to be in conflict. The truth is conflict is healthy in a marriage when dealt with appropriately!

In this episode we tackle 2 very common questions:

1. What do you do when your spouse won't engage in conflict and consequently nothing ever gets resolved. 
2. What do you do when it seems like we argue about everything?

You are going to hear some great ideas regarding what to do about both in this podcast!

Also, we introduced "The Cupid Challenge" in this episode. Simply put it is going to be 14 days of focus on being intentional about building more vibrant healthy marriages and it is going to be a lot of fun!

To sign up Click Here to go to our Facebook Group or go wo www.thecupidchallenge.com and you can sign up there. Join us for this cool event and have some fun learning some new ways to grow your marriage!

We trust you will enjoy and learn a lot from this week's podcast ... 

Jim & Christie Jacobus 

Hey gang ... 

Welcome to YOUR Marriage Matterz podcast episode #046 What Are YOUR Word(s) To Drive Success In 2019? 

As we have turned the page on 2018 and moved into 2019 there has been a lot of discussion on Social Media regarding what word, or words, will you lock in on to drive success in 2019. 

We share with you what our words are but really want to hear what will be the focus for building your own vibrant healthy marriage in 2019? Take a moment to fo to our Facebook Group - YOUR Marriage Matterz and share your thoughts!

Also, we announced The Cupid Challenge a 14 day event we will launch on February 1st that will run through Valentine's Day. Each day we will send you an e-mail with a video that will put a fun, simple and exciting challenge in front of you for that day. Each challenge will help us all, Christie and I included, to build a more vibrant healthy marriage. 

Click Here to sign up for The Cupid Challenge!

Hey gang ... 

Welcome to Your Marriage Matterz podcast episode #044 4 Questions To Ask Yourself To Make 2019 YOUR Best Year Ever! This is Week 4 in the series ... the last week of the series and the last week of 2018!

We wrap up the series and the year with a great question - "what do you want to do that is BIG in 2019"? This question is a lot like last week's question but focuses on something that would be a game changer for you! Remember we are asking ourselves this question:

• Individually
• Collectively as a couple or family
• Personally
• And, professionally

So much of what we have done in this series is tied to us being "intentional" about our lives and specifically our marriages! In this episode we discuss some things we have done through the years that have been game changers for us and our marriage. And, we give you some ideas for what you could do that might be "BIG" in your marriage.

To download your cheat sheet for this week Click Here. We trust you will enjoy the wrap up question for this awesome series!

Jim & Christie Jacobus 

Hey gang ... 

Welcome to YOUR Marriage Matterz podcast episode #044 "4 Questions To Ask Yourself To Make 2019 YOUR Best Year Ever"! We are in week 3 of this 4 week series and our question this week is ... "What do you want to do in 2019 that is NEW"!

We love this question for a lot of reasons including ... 

1. It allows us to plan for exciting new things in 2019
2. It gives us the opportunity to enlist the blessing and support of our spouse for what we want to do new. 
3. It gives us great insights into ways we can grow individually and collectively!

So, download the handout by Clicking Here or by going to our Facebook Group at Your Marriage Matterz and let's get started!

Hey gang ... 

Welcome to YMM episode #043 ... 4 Questions To Ask Yourself To Make 2019 YOUR Best Year Ever! In Week 2 of this 4 week series our question of the week is "What's not working in your life and how do you get rid of it, or make it work"? 

This question helps us in a couple of ways ... 

1. It allows us to get rid of the things in our life that no longer bring us value or don't bring us enough value to justify the time we are investing.
2. It allows us to examine how to male these things work so that we are maximizing the value they bring.
3. Most important ... it creates margin in our lives so we can add new and more valuable things into our lives and our marriages!
4. A new level of intentionality is added to our marriages!

We are going to ask ourselves this question in the following ways as will our spouse. Then we will compare notes. 

• Personally as an individual
• Professionally as an individual
• Personally as a collective or couple (Team Jacobus)
• Professionally as a collective or couple (Team Jacobus)

Be sure and download the handout we have for you before listening to the podcast. You can download the handout at Click Here!

Jim & Christie Jacobus 

Hey gang ... 

Welcome to YMM episode #042 ... 4 Questions To Ask Yourself To Make 2019 YOUR Best Year Ever! In Week 1 of this 4 week series our question of the week is "What's working in your life and how can you do more of it"? 

This question helps us in a couple of ways ... 

1. It assists us in looking for patterns of things that are working because we will see some commonalities in the good!
2. It assists us in increasing our satisfaction in life that we can do more of or add to! 

We are going to ask ourselves this question in the following ways as will our spouse. Then we will compare notes. 

• Personally as an individual
• Professionally as an individual
• Personally as a collective or couple (Team Jacobus)
• Professionally as a collective or couple (Team Jacobus)

Be sure and download the handout we have for you before listening to the podcast. You can download the handout at Click Here!

Jim & Christie Jacobus 

This week's episode is titled The Power Of Personality Styles and How They Impact YOUR Marriage!

This is a two part podcast and is the last in our series of 4 Ways To Be Intentional About YOUR Marriage! This is one of our favorite topics to teach on marriage. It is the source of a lot of marital conflict when couples fail to see how God made them and their spouse. It can become a great strength as we learn that God was wise beyond our understanding when he put us together.