85 | Following God When Your Spouse Doesn't: The Spiritually Dry Marriage with Jesse Maestas
Living Easy with Lindsey
Lindsey Maestas
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🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Faith and leadership aren't always linear. My husband, Jesse, has struggled for years with his faith, his understanding of God's role in his life and also with his role as the leader of our family. There were many days in which I struggled with feeling deceived by him, because the faithful man that I dated was not the struggling man that I was married to.
As a wife and mom, I have personally taken over the leadership role for many years in taking my boys to church, reading the Bible, praying over them and more. God has been drawing Jesse in recently in a way that I have never seen and we are both realizing how much Jesus has taught us along the way.
In this honest conversation, Jesse and I discuss how to navigate a spiritually dry or unbelieving spouse, the list of unhealthy expectations that I had coming into marriage, the ways I hurt Jesse and helped Jesse when he was doubting God and more.
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| 0:00.0 | We were never promised that life would be easy, but when we do it together, it becomes much easier. |
| 0:13.0 | I genuinely believe that we have to be intentional about creating a joyful life. |
| 0:18.0 | I believe in happy parenting, healthy marriages, long-lasting friendships, and making perfect memories in imperfect homes. |
| 0:26.0 | But those things require deep, holy, heartwork. |
| 0:30.0 | I am passionate when it comes to sharing vulnerably about the things that people are not always comfortable discussing, |
| 0:36.0 | and I am passionate about sharing practical wisdom that has helped me to help you navigate through life less stressfully and more purposefully. |
| 0:45.0 | On the Living Easy Podcast, you'll hear honest insight with the Biblical Foundation to help you become best friends with your spouse again, |
| 0:53.0 | to love your motherhood so much that you don't need wine or even coffee to get through the day and to find hope in the very real trials and pain that we face moment to moment. |
| 1:04.0 | I want to challenge you every Monday to live life with purpose, to choose joy, and to honor God with all that you do. |
| 1:12.0 | Are you ready to fight hard for that sweet, abundant life? |
| 1:16.0 | If so, I would love to do it together. |
| 1:19.0 | So grab a cup of coffee and join me every Monday. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm Lindsay Mayesis, and this is the Living Easy Podcast. |
| 1:29.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Living Easy Podcast. |
| 1:33.0 | I am super, super happy because it is a cool, chilly fall day, which is my favorite. |
| 1:40.0 | And in honor of the Wife Project launching again for the final time on November 7th, I have the hubby. |
| 1:49.0 | The hubby here with me today. |
| 1:51.0 | And I have two hours worth of content about this, about the spiritually dry or unbelieving spouse on the Wife Project with journaling pages and questions and really intentional challenges to help you walk through it. |
| 2:06.0 | And so I thought what better way than to hear from a couple who has walked through it. |
| 2:11.0 | And I've shared this in bits and pieces, but you guys have never heard us talk about it about the struggle that we kind of had with my expectations of a leader and Jesse's struggle with his faith and kind of the back and forth that he felt. |
| 2:26.0 | And so we want to talk about what hurt and helped him that I did and what hurt and helped me when I was struggling with my own faith. |
| 2:33.0 | And so I want to begin with Philippians two, three, it says do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others, including your spouse, as more significant than yourselves. |
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