Episode 142, blended families.

Welcome back to one extraordinary marriage where we talk sex, love, and commitment.

You're here with Elisa, De Lorenzo.

And Tony, Del Lorenzo?

And just, wow, it's November.

This year has flown by and as we head into the holiday season, first and

foremost just want you guys to make time over the next two months to keep intimacy a priority in your marriage.

Yeah. This can be a really stressful time for couples for many many reasons.

Finances, family relationships, over-commitments, things like that and it's very easy to let your marriage fall low down on the totem pole and I'm just

going to encourage you all of you as you're listening to this to make sure you're

building in time to your weeks to spend time with your husband or

wife to really connect on what's going on so that you don't find yourselves

overwhelmed and distanced. And we speak from experience because if you would listen to any of the

podcasts that have fallen in November, December for the last two, three years.

Both of our children have their birthdays between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

So I am in my last and have their birthdays between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

So I am in my last, we've already started the birthday party planning for both kids.

They were, and so we're in this period of time and I know that I'm not the only person out there that gets a little crazed between Thanksgiving and Christmas and so

Just take advantage of those opportunities when you can steal a moment with your spouse

where you know even if you're sitting on the couch holding hands,

sipping hot chocolate or you know curled up on that bare skin rug that Tony talks

about every once in a while. Make the time because it's very easy to get lost in the next two months.

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