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Relationship Advice

190: Religion and Your Relationship

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Are you religious and your partner is not? Maybe the other way around? The landscape is changing and you don't have to share your partner's religion or be religious at all. Listen to today's episode and learn how to navigate religion in your relationship. It will be valuable whether you're an atheist or a devout follower! In this episode we discuss relationship advice topics that include: The debate around interfaith marriages How religion can become irrelevant in your relationship  The control issues surrounding religion in your relationship Tolerating the differences between you and your partner Raising kids with religious compromises between you and your partner And much more! Steven Ing is reframing an important conversation in society one about the intelligent management of human sexuality. He is a sought-after trainer, speaker and therapist, bringing nearly three decades of experience to his audiences and clients. His book, We’re All Like This” (2015, Giant Publishing), is used as a text in Human Sexuality classes in university classrooms. Full show notes and episode links at: http://idopodcast.com/190 Sign up for our 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge here: 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge Join our 5 Day Couples Appreciation Challenge here: idopodcast.com/appreciation Do you want to hear more on this topic? Continue the conversation on our Facebook Group here: Love Tribe Sponsors Spark My Relationship Course: Get access to our special offer for I Do Podcast listeners only by visiting: SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock If you love this episode (and our podcast!), would you mind giving us a review in iTunes? It would mean the world to us and we promise it only takes a minute. Many thanks in advance! - Chase & Sarah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And Take me to the place in the middle of the sun. Hey guys what's going on?

0:28.0

What's going on? Hey guys, what's going on?

0:30.0

Ola, Shalom.

0:33.0

Welcome.

0:35.0

I said Shalom because it's like a greeting in Hebrew.

0:40.0

Yes it is.

0:41.0

In today's episode about religion. Okay, very good. And I was raised Jewish.

0:45.8

Like where you're going. Sarah's looking at me like, what is that?

0:49.1

What's my little joke for the

0:58.6

I like it. I like it. I like it. I like it. Welcome to the show guys. Thank you for tuning in

1:06.7

We already kind of told you that today's episode is about religion in the relationship and Sarah and I talk a little bit about our backgrounds and where we are in our

1:11.2

relationship in regards to religion.

1:13.5

And it's an important conversation

1:16.0

to have with your partner, if you're with them

1:18.4

and haven't talked about it a lot.

1:19.8

Certainly if you have kids, we dive into that with Stephen Ing who is back on for the trifecta

1:26.5

his third time on and Stephen is a marriage and family therapist

1:31.9

specializing in men's issues and has been practicing for

1:35.4

over 30 years.

1:36.5

So he is a great guest.

1:38.5

We always enjoy having him on and it was a pretty cool conversation because as Stephen says, he's religious, Sarah and I are not.

1:46.0

And we talk about that from those different perspectives and how it fits into the relationship.

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