505: Good and Hard Can Run on Parallel Lines
Wire Talk with Karen Stubbs
Karen Stubbs
4.9 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever feel overwhelmed, overtouched, overstimulated and find yourself wondering, why does this feel so hard?
Today Karen answers real questions from moms about marriage, resentment, anxiety, exhaustion, and the emotional weight of motherhood. From mismatched sex drives in the toddler years to school-day overload and traveling husbands, this conversation will remind you that you are not alone. Motherhood can be beautiful and exhausting at the same time- and good and hard can truly run on parallel lines.
Episode Recap:
- Good and hard can run on parallel tracks! (3:10)
- How can I honor my husband’s higher sex drive and actually enjoy sex right now? (4:33)
- My afternoons are exhausting with 3 school age daughters - is this normal? (6:57)
- My husband travels for work & chooses golf on weekends, I feel resentful (12:50)
- My job and homeschooling has me feeling so anxious, I dread my day to day life (18:28)
Scripture: Philippians 4:19 (NIV)
“And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.”
Discussion Questions:
- Where am I currently feeling the most overwhelmed — marriage, work, parenting, or emotionally?
- Is there resentment quietly building in my heart? What honest conversation needs to happen?
- What small buffer or margin could I create this week?
- Am I trying to solve everything myself instead of laying it before the Lord?
- Where do I need to remind myself that “good and hard can run on parallel lines”?
Resources:
- Listen to the rest of our conversation on WT+: boaw.mom/insider
- Check out our BRAND NEW Bible study: How To Teach Your Kids the Bible
- Listen to episode 131 or 165 on having a healthy sex life after kids
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to Wire Talk. Do you as a mom ever feel overwhelmed, over touched, over stimulated? |
| 0:07.2 | And do you ever think, why does this feel so hard? Well, if you do, then today is for you. |
| 0:13.8 | Today I'm going to be answering all the questions from the moms on marriage, anxiety, being overwhelmed, and just thinking, why is this so hard? Listen, moms, |
| 0:22.9 | you're not alone. So let's get to it. Well, hello and welcome to Wire Talk. You are in for a |
| 0:31.2 | real treat today because this episode is all about you. It's all about being a mom. And sometimes |
| 0:37.1 | those little questions |
| 0:38.0 | linger in your head and like, am I the only one feeling this? And a lot of these questions |
| 0:42.1 | I was reading today before we were recording. I was like, yep, someone struggles with that. |
| 0:46.4 | Yep, I struggle with that too. And I just think it's a real, real episode with things that |
| 0:51.9 | moms feel like mom guilt in different capacities. And why do I feel this way? And is it okay that moms feel like mom guilt in different capacities and why do I feel |
| 0:56.6 | this way and is it okay that I feel this way? And I think it's going to be, we're all going to walk |
| 1:01.1 | or feel a little bit lighter after listening to today's episode. Well, I hope so. You know, |
| 1:05.7 | that's the reason we do wire talk. Y'all might be wondering, you know, why does Karen do a podcast? |
| 1:10.5 | Well, I used to travel |
| 1:11.5 | around all over the Atlanta area and speaking to moms and all that, but as the ministry got |
| 1:17.3 | bigger, that just got harder and harder and harder to do. And plus, if anybody lives in the Atlanta |
| 1:22.4 | area, they know how much traffic is involved in that. So we decided to do a podcast 10 years ago, which is just hard to believe. |
| 1:31.8 | That is crazy. |
| 1:32.6 | I mean, we are on what number is this? |
| 1:34.5 | 505. |
| 1:35.7 | I mean, it's crazy. |
| 1:37.2 | So to answer mom's questions, because that's what I would do after every time I taught |
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