Communication is the biggest hiccup in a lot of marriages.

Even bigger than sex and intimacy, even bigger than finances, even bigger than chores. How can I frame this in a way that's productive? Is there a better way, a more productive way to approach this topic? I'm married a fallible person, somebody who's imperfect, their communication is not going to be perfect, their motives aren't even going to be perfect. But in love, I can say, what are you actually trying to get to?

Lord, may I be the most harshest examiner of my own heart and not those around me.

Family is the building block of society, and we want a society that flourishes in light of the Lordship of Christ, and that starts in the home.

There's a snowball effect of clarity. There's a snowball effect of owning your sin and coming back to one another and saying, hey,

I was wrong.

There's this disarming.

If you can just figure out communication, almost everything else can be worked through.

I mean, I would venture to say anything else can be worked through with the grace and love of Christ.

Being intimate feels it's not a priority to us.

How can we change that in our home?

Boy, Ryan, do we have something for our audience today?

This first fierce marriage episode of the season.

2026? Or just the season?

Both of the year. 2026 or just the season? Both of the year.

What a magnificent year.

It will be Lord willing.

We're praying that the Lord blesses marriages.

They get stronger throughout the process of this year.

And to that end, we're going to give you 10 horrible communication tips that you can practice this year to become a better arguer bad marriage better bad marriage now sometimes it's helpful to inverse the thing

to get you thinking about kind of the ridiculousness and so yeah we are going to talk about 10

horrible communication tips here but before we do that my, my name is Ryan. This is my lovely

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