Do you consider your spouse's opinions as valid your own? Marriage would be so much easier if we always had the same preferences and thoughts. Instead, as we choose to let our spouse's opinion truly matter to us, we grow respect and trust in our marriage. In this episode we're sharing some of our opinions… and try to figure out whose opinion matters more!

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Have you ever forgotten a significant day in your relationship? Taking extra effort to celebrate each other can grow trust and romance in our marriage. In this episode, we share our times of wrong expectations and mishandling our romantic holidays.

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So much of our relationship is defined by what happens in private, between the two of us. But a lot of our relationship is also how we function together in public. In this episode we're sharing how we try to look out for each other in social settings (and the times we haven't!)

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Happy New Year! The new year can give us new hope- the promise of the change we so desperately want to see. Other times the new year can be discouraging. Here we are with a brand new year, yet here we are, having the same conversation. In this episode we share some of our "same conversations" in our marriage and how we work past that feeling of being stuck.

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Tara and Joe share a short devotional about God's goodness. We hope you and your family have much to celebrate this Christmas! This week we share a short article from one of our favorite writers about seeing God in the hard places.

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We all know that person who starts listening to Christmas music in October… who fills their home with multiple Christmas trees and has decorations on every shelf and lights in every window. They are "Christmas people" through and through. But maybe you feel more like a Grinch and don't care for all the holiday trappings. Does that mean Christmas is not for you? In this episode we share our struggles with the Christmas season and what it really means to celebrate Christ during Christmas.

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There are so many needs around us and so many opportunities to give that it can feel overwhelming! We know that God wants us to be generous, but what if we don't have much? And but, and what if? In this episode we share our struggles with being generous and how our marriage has benefitted from letting God's blessings flow through us!

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There's so much joy in welcoming a baby into the family, but there's also so much work, and the dynamics in our relationship often drastically shift. In this episode we look back and share how we protected our marriage through the addition of children.

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