145: Starting Marriage Unprepared with Jackie and Stephana Bledsoe

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

So many of us start marriage off completely unprepared. We mean well and we genuinely love each other. But so often, being unprepared can leads to years of heartache.

In this episode, Jackie and Stephana Bledsoe join us to talk about their experiences during the early years of marriage, and the decisions they began to make that eventually got them on the right track.

Show Notes:

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0:00.0	So I sat down, got us all together, first meal of the year, I believe, at 2020, and just
0:04.9	apologize to our family.
0:06.1	I was like, I'm sorry, but I've let you guys down.
0:08.8	I've allowed other things to become more important to God almost to the point of being
0:13.8	idols.
0:14.7	And so we spend a lot of time.
0:16.0	I'm a youth sports coach.
0:17.7	I coach way too many teams.
0:19.3	Our boys are playing on multiple teams. So that was the one thing
0:22.6	that I brought up. There were other things as well. I was like, but we need to take that back.
0:26.4	You are listening to the Famous at Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:32.1	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:41.8	Thank you. done, we all want to know that we were famous at home. Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast. We are delighted that you are here with us and journeying
0:46.7	with us. It is February. Welcome to Love Month. We started that last week with the five ways
0:52.8	to reset your marriage and just really
0:54.7	honing in on how we can champion the marital relationship. And as we do that, this week we have
1:01.5	some special guests on Jackie and Stefana Bledsoe. Jackie wrote a book called The Seven
1:06.3	Rings of Marriage. But more importantly than that, this is a couple who has been ministering in
1:12.4	the marriage space for quite some time and it isn't without their own struggles.
1:18.3	And for those of you who may have started marriage just on a really rocky place, or
1:22.6	maybe you're right there now, this is a really great interview where you hear a lot of
1:27.2	their story. They had no idea
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