Authentic intimacy has a brand new website. Yes, you heard that right. We just launched a new website

designed to make it easier for you to find and share all of our resources on God, relationships,

and sexuality. Now, don't worry, it still has the same content, but it's going to be easier

for you to find what you're looking for.

Well, this month, as we celebrate the website and newly expanded member benefits,

we're giving away a free signed copy of one of my books to anyone in the United States

who signs up for an annual membership.

Head to authenticinnocci.com slash member or click the link in our show notes to get your free book.

Hey friend, this is Julie. I want to welcome you to Java with Julie. This podcast is a listener-supported

outreach of authentic intimacy, a ministry dedicated to reclaiming God's design for sexuality.

Well, there are some important shifts that happen when a couple transitions from dating to actually getting married.

There's so many new things that you have to navigate, like who does the laundry and who pays the bills and whose job is it to clean the bathroom?

But beyond those types of things, there's some even deeper things that are taking place.

Really, you're forging a new family.

You're establishing your own values.

You're setting goals as a couple.

And you're deciding overall what your family is going to represent.

Now, that's a very important part of the newly

web process. And you know who sometimes gets in the way? Your own mom or dad. Well, I know what that

experience can be like on both sides of this. Maybe you're a parent of a son or daughter who

just got married and you're struggling to know if and when you should comment on choices or decisions you disagree with.

And if you're that newly married son or daughter, you're trying to figure out if it's ever good

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