6 Things I Wish I Knew Before Getting Married

SHE with Jordan Lee Dooley

Jordan Lee Dooley

Health & Fitness

4.9 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

When you’re preparing for marriage, everyone tells you to have conversations with your future spouse about how many kids you want and how to deal with conflict. But no one tells you how to keep things clean when your spouse isn’t as organized as you, how to set expectations for leisure time (like fishing or playing video games), or how to make money conversations fun. So in this episode, Jordan is sharing the six things she wish she knew before she got married - plus some tips for building a home when you’re living with someone who does things differently than you. Grab your headphones and tune in to learn: Strategies for keeping a household schedule How to make money conversations fun Ways to keep your home, files, and lives organized How to have conversations about household tasks and leisure time Why being a power couple isn't the goal And if you want a jump start on scheduling and organizing your calendar, planning meals, and all the logistical parts of running a home, check the free Own Your Everyday Way mini-course at learn.theownitacademy.com/oye.

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0:00.0	Happy Wednesday. I guess Wednesday if you're listening on the day that this episode drops if you're not listening on a Wednesday
0:06.5	Happy day. I hope it's a great day in this episode. I am going to be sharing some things that I wish I knew before I got married
0:13.8	I have gotten this question a lot on social media in the last several months and so I was like, you know what heck
0:19.6	Let's just make a podcast episode about it. So in this episode
0:22.9	I'm gonna cover that and just for your context and a little bit of proficing
0:27.0	this doesn't cover so much about like the warm, mushy, fuzzy stuff about marriage as it does some of the practicals and
0:33.9	the whole managing a household and doing that with another human and some of those lessons I've learned
0:39.9	Through the process of just being married for a few years that I didn't feel as prepared for I honestly felt like I was pretty prepared
0:46.3	for some of the more like interpersonal stuff but not so much in the practical stuff and that's partly because I just didn't care to be prepared
0:54.1	It wasn't because no one tried to help me like my poor mother. I think tried to prepare me and I was like, yeah, yeah
0:58.6	I'll get to that. So anyways, all that said I'm gonna dive into some of these things
1:02.4	Especially some of the practical things that I've learned when it comes to just
1:06.4	Cultivating and building a life not only on your own, but also with someone else. So let's get into it
1:11.1	I'm not gonna make you wait. Let's do it
1:16.1	You're listening to she with Jordan Lee Dooley a personal development podcast for the everyday woman
1:22.1	Come invited leave
1:24.5	Ignited here's your host Jordan Lee Dooley
1:40.5	So before I got married I thought I had a pretty good handle on on all I would need to know
1:46.5	I read a lot of the books about marriage. I read love and respect
1:50.1	I read this really good book that I actually recommend to all wives or women in relationships with men in general
1:55.4	What your husband isn't telling you that is such a helpful book
1:58.9	Oh my gosh also read the meaning of marriage and several more we met with our pastor and his wife from marriage counseling
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