73: Strengthening Marriage: Tips and Takeaways That Have Changed Our Marriage
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🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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“Does anyone stay together anymore?” And “is anyone actually happy in their marriage, or is it all smoke and mirrors?” These are some of the comments I saw on social media a couple weeks ago after the announcement of Dave and Rachel Hollis’s divorce. While we obviously have no idea what happened there, it sparked a lot of conversations in my life and even between Neil and me about what really keeps people together and what the makeup is of a happy marriage. Today we’re sharing some of the tips, advice and actionable takeaways that have greatly helped strengthen our marriage that we hope will help you too.
Show Notes:
Talk “In Praise of Those Who Serve” Dieter F. Uchtdorf https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2016/04/in-praise-of-those-who-save?lang=eng
Talk “Eternal Marraige” F. Burton Howard
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2003/04/eternal-marriage?lang=eng
Talk by President Gordon B. Hinckley
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1997/03/a-conversation-with-single-adults?lang=eng
“There seems to be a superstition among many thousands of our young [men and women] who hold hands and smooch in the drive-ins that marriage is a cottage surrounded by perpetual hollyhocks to which a perpetually young and handsome husband comes home to a perpetually young and [beautiful] wife. When the hollyhocks wither and boredom and bills appear the divorce courts are jammed. …
“Anyone who imagines that bliss [in marriage] is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he has been robbed.
“[The fact is] most putts don’t drop. Most beef is tough. Most children grow up to be just people. Most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration. Most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. …
“Life is like an old-time rail journey—delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed.
“The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride” (“Big Rock Candy Mountains,” Deseret News, 12 June 1973, A4).
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| 0:00.0 | Does anyone stay together anymore? And is anyone actually happy in their marriage or is it all |
| 0:05.9 | smoke and mirrors? These are some of the comments I saw on social media a couple weeks ago |
| 0:10.6 | after the announcement of Dave and Rachel Hollis's divorce. While we obviously have no |
| 0:15.8 | idea what happened there, it sparked a lot of conversations in my life and even between |
| 0:20.4 | Neil and me about what |
| 0:21.6 | really keeps people together and what the makeup is of a happy marriage. Today we're sharing |
| 0:26.8 | some of the tips, advice, and actionable takeaways that have greatly helped strengthen our |
| 0:31.7 | marriage that we hope will help you too. Hi everybody. I'm here with Neil. |
| 0:38.7 | Hi. |
| 0:39.3 | And we are going to talk about marriage today. |
| 0:44.9 | And the reason why we decided to have a podcast episode on marriage is because a very well-known |
| 0:52.7 | couple in the social media world announced a couple weeks ago that they're getting divorced. |
| 0:58.7 | And I was super sad about it. |
| 1:01.4 | My sister texted me right away and said, did you see that Rachel and Dave Hollis are getting divorced? |
| 1:07.3 | And we talked about that a little bit. |
| 1:09.3 | I talked about it with some friends. |
| 1:12.2 | And, you know, |
| 1:19.0 | it's such a bummer when things like that don't work out. But really what inspired us to do this podcast today about marriage and having a strong marriage was the comments that I saw on their |
| 1:25.4 | announcement posts. There were a lot of comments where people said, |
| 1:29.2 | oh my gosh, does anyone stay together anymore? And a lot of people were like saying things about |
| 1:36.0 | they felt like it was all smoke and mirrors or that, you know, just kind of does every couple |
| 1:42.8 | that appears to be happy, are they just faking it? |
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