Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith,

ask questions, seek answers, and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to settle for water down Christian teaching. And if you're ready to go deeper,

God is just as ready to take you there. This is Verity, where every woman is a theologian.

Welcome back to Verity Podcasts, you guys. I'm Felicia Masonheimer, and my husband Josh

is with me for this series. And we are in our Honest Marriage series, which is part of the

launch of the Flotation Experiment, my co-authored book that launches on December 7th.

And so as a part of launching that book, I invited Josh to join me for this series, and it has

been so fun to talk through these different topics and how we process those through the lens

of biblical marriage. And obviously, we're only speaking from one perspective and one marriage,

but we hope that some of what we share is encouraging or thought-provoking for you,

and that you can customize it and apply it to your own relationship. And so for this particular

episode, we're going to be talking about transitions and life transitions. We've been through

quite a few, as we'll get into in this episode, and we just want to encourage you as you are

walking through transitions with your spouse. If you're listening to this marriage series,

there's a good chance that you or someone you love is married. And that's fantastic,

because on December 7th, my brand new co-authored marriage book is launching into the world.

It's called the Flotation Experiment, and if that title intrigues you good, because I can't wait

for wives to pick this book up and be encouraged and equipped to pursue their husbands in ways they

may be never expected to do so. When I wrote this book, I was looking back on a year when I was

really struggling to cultivate a relationship with Josh. I felt lonely, I felt disconnected,

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