Welcome back to the Encounter on a podcast. We're excited to be chatting with you guys today because a lot of you've asked us this question. How has the first year of marriage been for both of you? We go into all different categories of hardship and then also the fun things and what you can practically do for your relationship and potentially your marriage.

So we are not experts.

We are not geniuses.

But we do have a little bit of experience now that we have been married for a year.

And we just wanted to authentically share that story.

So we hope you enjoy this podcast.

And without further ado, let's go ahead and listen in.

Music And without further ado, let's go ahead and listen in. Hello, hello, friends. Welcome into this week's episode of the podcast. Today I'm really excited to be having this discussion with Chelsea. And even though we're not quite at a year of marriage, we are coming up on it what seems to be very, very quickly. We're now at 11 months and some days, and by the time this

episode releases, we'll be even closer to a year. And so today we just want to have some

open dialogue and discussion about what we have learned in our first year of marriage. And what may be

able to help you, whether it is in your dating relationship, your engagement,

or potentially even your marriage, maybe us bouncing some of these ideas off of one another

may spark something in your mind that you need to remember or something that you learned

a while ago, but you need to recall to mind. And yeah, I think I have a few things that have really stood out to me this year and some things that I have learned and some things that I'm continuing to learn.

Yeah, I'm excited to talk about this too.

I know that we're going to touch on a lot of topics that may make us realize, wow, we've been through a lot this past year and then some that are things that we

didn't really expect. And so hopefully those of you who are either dating, engaged, or even the

married couples out there can appreciate it and maybe learn something or say amen in the process.

And yeah, we just hope you enjoy and relate to it in some way, shape, or form.

So the very first thing that I want to

talk about in our marriage and in our first year of marriage and the very first thing that I

think I started learning probably just a few weeks in and how things were different from dating

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