Hey guys, it's Jamie Scrimter here, second wife, stepmom of three and mum of one.

And you're listening to my podcast, where we talk about all things motherhood, stepmotherhood,

and living a kick-ass life. If you're ready for raw and real conversations and are striving

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I'll provide you with tips and strategies and mindset shifts to inspire you to live your own

version of a kick-ass life. We'll bring you along as I create my own.

All right. So welcome back to the podcast. Darren is back today, guys, and we are talking about, talking about our relationship and our tips, I guess, for a strong relationship, a strong marriage, a happy marriage.

Darren, you're just staring at me.

What do you got here, buddy?

Well, I'm waiting to hear what your tips are.

Yeah, so it's Valentine's Day this week or the week that the podcast is going to be released.

So I thought, I thought this is a good time to kind of share what's worked for us, some of our tips, because,

you know, as we talked about in the very first episode of this podcast, we've come a long way

in our marriage. Would you not say? Oh, I think so. We've grown a lot. Yeah, even like the other

day something happened in our like step family or like a step family stressor and I

realized wow like three years ago we have four years ago this would have derailed us and we would

have been you know dealing with us in such an entirely different way it's crazy just to see like

how far we've come in like our new strategies for dealing with struggles that come up in our

relationship I agree.

You're just staring at me.

Guys, just to give you a visual here, it is like 7 o'clock in the morning.

Darren's super exhausted.

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