86 | Why a Child-Centered Marriage Will Hurt Your Family with Jesse Maestas
Living Easy with Lindsey
Lindsey Maestas
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
It's easy to end a long night of bedtime routines and go your separate ways from your spouse to find some rest and relaxation. It's easy to love and protect our little ones so much that we lose sight of the needs of our spouse. But when a family is not structured the way that God has designed it to be, it begins to create a slow drift that will eventually drown a marriage.
P.S. You guys, it's time! The Wife Project Course: From Roommates to Soulmates is HERE for the FINAL LAUNCH! Don't miss it! Fight for a happier, healthier marriage in 2022 - it begins with you because nobody else will do it for you. In a society that treats our marriages as disposable, we have to do the hard work & fight in faith to fulfill God's beautiful design of marriage. The easy way out is very rarely the best way out.
On today's episode, Jesse and I share our own experiences with the damage caused by a child-centered marriage after we had our first son. We discuss the moment that we were called out on it and what we have learned from that point.
We share practical wisdom on how to restructure your family dynamic, or simply strengthening it, and why this design is created to help us, not hurt us. We pray that this conversation helps your marriage immensely and causes you to seek Jesus in the way that He wants to shift your family focus and design.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, my goodness. Today is the day I am so excited. The wife project has officially launched for the final time. |
| 0:10.8 | And on today's episode, Jesse and I are talking about something so, so important within a marriage, which is the foundation and the structure that God has created for our relationships, which is God first, marriage second, children third. |
| 0:26.7 | And I know a lot of people have a really difficult time with this concept. So we're breaking it down biblically and practically for you, I'm an explaining why God designed it in this way. |
| 0:36.5 | But I am just the real that the wife project is finally here. It is always a lot of work getting into just kind of the launch mode and the marketing and the preparation. |
| 0:47.1 | And so I just want to say thank you to all of you who signed up for the wait list, all of you who are already purchasing, there are options. You can do a group purchase option so that you do it with Bible studies or community groups or just friends in the neighborhood. |
| 1:01.1 | And we have a tons and tons of women who have already done that during the past launches. We have a payment plan for $67 a month for three months and then the full purchase of the wife project and just pay it and be done. |
| 1:14.1 | I am just so thankful to have you if you don't know much about the wife project, please go to the link in my show notes or go to my Instagram and you can see the wife project highlight where I share all of the information about it as well as feedback that I have received from women who have walked through it. |
| 1:31.1 | There have been women who have taken it that have been married for 50 years at women who have been married for five single women engaged women and they are all coming back to say that the wife project has drastically changed their perspective of marriage. |
| 1:43.1 | The way that they perceive their spouse the way that they pursue and love their spouse and the expectations that they have for their spouse now or for their future spouse. |
| 1:52.1 | And so I just pray that it blesses you that it changes your marriage for God's glory and the topics include everything from forgiving the little things and forgiveness and betrayal having fun with your spouse again learning how to date your spouse again. |
| 2:07.1 | The little foxes that damage your marriage because it's those little things that really see been rather than the big things that cause the explosion. |
| 2:15.1 | I am discussing sex and communication how to fight fair all of the things for an eight and a half week 10 hour course that will challenge you along with the wife project journal that has all of the actionable marriage challenges memorization versus conversation starters and so much more. |
| 2:34.1 | It is available now it's a click the link in my bio go to my Instagram we are also doing a giveaway so don't forget to enter we're giving away three courses to three lucky people so make sure to enter and tag some friends if you've already walked through the wife project. |
| 2:48.1 | Thank you for your support and your love and I pray that it is encouraged you and with love if you would share with one friend or family member who might also be blessed by it with all of that said today's conversation is really really sweet. |
| 3:01.1 | I just love Jesse's perspective on all of it and I am excited for you to hear so let's jump into today's conversation. |
| 3:15.1 | We were never promised that life would be easy but when we do it together it becomes much easier. |
| 3:21.1 | I genuinely believe that we have to be intentional about creating a joyful life. |
| 3:26.1 | I believe in happy parenting healthy marriages long lasting friendships and making perfect memories in imperfect homes but those things require deep holy heart work. |
| 3:39.1 | I am passionate when it comes to sharing vulnerability about the things that people are not always comfortable discussing and I am passionate about sharing practical wisdom that has helped me to help you navigate through life less stressfully and more purposefully. |
| 3:53.1 | On the Living Easy Podcast you'll hear honest insight with a biblical foundation to help you become best friends with your spouse again 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. |
| 4:12.1 | I want to challenge you every Monday to live life with purpose to choose joy and to honor God with all that you do. |
| 4:20.1 | Are you ready to fight hard for that sweet abundant life? If so I would love to do it together. |
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