Congratulations! You married a sinner. Selfish, stubborn, occasionally insufferable… and somehow, they got stuck with you too.

What would you change tomorrow if you genuinely believed your marriage was under attack?

Tim and Bella carry on the conversation about spiritual warfare, specifically as experienced in the early years of marriage. Last episode, they laid the foundation for what spiritual warfare looks like. In this episode, Bella and Tim talk about how to fight back! How do you arm yourself with the armour of God? What does it look like to redefine your most significant inputs? And is it possible to fight and still laugh? Listen to unpack these questions and more!

Part 2 of 2.

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Your marriage has an enemy. And it's not your spouse.

Satan hates what marriage represents, and he'll use division, temptation, distraction, and compromise to tear it apart.

The arguments you keep having. The distractions you keep allowing. The little compromises that don't seem like a big deal, until they are.

In this episode, Tim and Bella unpack why Satan hates marriage, how he works to destroy it, and the doors we might be leaving wide open without even realizing it.

Part 1 of 2. Next week, we fight back.

The wedding excitement is over, your honeymoon suntan is fading, and suddenly real life is competing for your attention. Between groceries, laundry, work, and everyday commitments, how do you keep romance alive when ordinary life takes over?

In this episode, Tim and Bella unpack the things that can make or break your first year of marriage: making time for each other, speaking well of your spouse, learning to build a great sex life, and recognizing the ways the enemy might be trying to undermine your relationship. Your time after the honeymoon can be amazing! But it may take extra intentionality and effort to get it there!

Welcome to Season 3 of Unpopular!

In this season, we're unpacking some standard conventions and common misconceptions of how the early years of Christian marriage should look. We're kicking off this season by chatting about how to start your marriage off strong. We also unpack a bit about who we (Tim and Bella) and why it's crucial that we remain "Unpopular" as we tackle this important and sacred topic.

Join us as we explore the joy-filled, and sometimes tear-filled, first year of marriage!

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Christians are often taught a lot about how not to have sex before marriage, but not nearly as much about how to actually build a healthy sex life once they're married.

So in this episode, we're talking about the practical side of sex in Christian marriage: how to approach your wedding night without putting too much pressure on it, why good sex is more about selflessness than performance, how to figure out what you actually like and communicate that to your spouse, and what engaged couples should know about contraception before marriage.

We also get into one of those very unromantic-sounding questions that can actually be really helpful: should you schedule sex in marriage?

If you're engaged, newly married, or preparing to have sex for the first time on your wedding night, this is a practical conversation about building an awesome sex life together.

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Christian marriage isn't just about building a happy life together, it's a partnership with a purpose. In this episode, Tim and Bella talk about how to build a marriage intentionally around serving God, exploring topics such as developing a shared mission, vision and values, creating habits that support what matters most, and asking how your home, money, careers, gifts and time can be used for God's Kingdom.

Marriage shouldn't only make life better for the two people in it. A strong Christian marriage should make you stronger together, better equipping you to faithfully love the people God places around you. You've decided who you're going to marry, now it's time to decide how you're going to live.

What does your fiancé actually have a right to know before they marry you?

Past sin. Present struggles. Criminal history. Addiction. Sexual history. Things you've hidden. Things you've healed from. Things you desperately hoped never come up.

In this episode, we're talking about how to handle the hard disclosures before marriage, and how to do it with honesty, wisdom, and courage. We unpack the difference between privacy and secrecy, past sin and present sin, and healthy disclosure and unnecessary oversharing. We also talk about how to respond when someone discloses something difficult to you and what sincere disclosure actually looks like.

Secrets don't keep, and sometimes the only way through it is through it.

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