#80: Marriage in a Fishbowl: How Leaders Can Be Teammates in Marriage

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Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

There are eyes on your marriage. If you have kids, they watch how you interact. If you lead others in your community, those you lead watch how you live. In other words, your marriage is in a fishbowl.

Some feel it more than others. But regardless of who's watching, if we don't pursue a marriage we'd wish on our kids, or we keep leading others without tending to our own marital garden, it will catch up to us. And besides, isn't it better to enjoy life with our spouse than merely tolerate it and go through the motions?

We think so. That's why this episode covers four ways we can become teammates in marriage and why it's so important.

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0:00.0	We all have family picture frames.
0:11.8	Who are the people in yours?
0:13.4	I'm Josh.
0:14.4	And I'm Christy.
0:15.8	In This Together is a podcast where we discuss topics related to today's family.
0:23.4	We also go behind the scenes to share stories from our own crooked picture frame. And we interview guests to discover how their
0:28.5	stories can give us insight on becoming families who live, love, and lead well. Because you're
0:34.3	not alone. We're in this together. This episode of the In This Together podcast
0:43.1	is brought to you by Lifeway Women. For more information about all the events Lifeway
0:48.4	women has to offer, visit lifeway.com slash women's events. Welcome back to the Endus Together podcast. We're talking today about
0:57.4	being teammates in marriage and what it really looks like to have a marriage in a fishbowl.
1:02.3	Because whether you're a leader in your community, and we think of this normally as leaders,
1:07.9	because we've had the opportunity to talk to leaders about this.
1:11.3	But when you're, like, for instance, if you're in a church and you're leading a church,
1:14.2	it's often difficult to share your own, to show your stuff, to show how human you really are
1:21.8	and the struggles that you have in your marriage because it could be exploited and be used
1:26.1	against you within the context of the church and your
1:28.2	leadership. And you might not feel comfortable talking to people about it or, you know, the fear that it
1:34.9	might get passed around and that you might not feel safe. And so we have a lot of things that keep us
1:40.0	from really truly getting honest as it relates to our marriage. And I know for us, I think whether or not
1:48.5	you're a leader or not, there's this idea that we tend to live in a fishbowl. And we create the
1:53.8	fishbowl a lot of times in our marriage that keep us, if you look at your marriage on a scale of 1 to 10,
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