910: Andrew and Allison Jolley: Healing Your Marriage after a Faith Crisis Pt. 3
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2018
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
In this Mormon Stories Podcast episode, we travel to Nevada to listen as Andrew and Allison Jolley tell the story of their Mormon faith crisis, how they healed their painful and disconnected marriage, and (in episodes 911-912) how Andrew became a founder and owner of a marijuana company in Nevada called The+Source Nevada.
We cover:
- The shame and unresolved issues that were brought into the marriage by transgressions in their youth
- The barriers to emotional intimacy that both felt throughout their marriage and how they sought to meet their emotional needs in other places
- How Allison clung more to the church when she felt Andrew pulling away in the marriage
- Why Andrew embarked on a journey to deepen his faith, which instead lead to a faith crisis
- How Allison experienced anxiety and confusion when Andrew worked harder to strengthen his marriage after expressing doubts about the LDS Church
- How Allison experienced her own faith crisis
- What Andrew and Allison did to heal their marriage after experiencing a faith transition
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Part 1: Andrew and Allison describe their early marriage including the shame and unresolved issues each brought in
Part 2: Andrew and Allison share their difficulty with emotional intimacy and the impact a faith crisis had on their marriage
Part 3: Andrew and Allison share how they healed their marriage
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Transcript
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| 0:57.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to part two of my interview with Andrew and Alison Jolly. |
| 1:03.0 | For those of you who have enjoyed this yet for the first half, |
| 1:09.0 | it is a really, really epic mind blowing interview about how Andrew and Alison Jolly were raised in the church |
| 1:17.0 | but had some deep, you know, difficulties and challenges |
| 1:22.0 | with how they experience Mormonism. |
| 1:24.0 | Andrew with a lot of sexual shame and guilt and public shaming. |
| 1:27.0 | Alison, as she struggled with depression on her mission, |
| 1:31.0 | and how she coped with it and just kind of stuffing it and trying to just soldier on, |
| 1:36.0 | they brought some of that damage and difficulty and trauma into their marriage. |
| 1:41.0 | And as their marriage progressed, Andrew got more and more focused on work, |
| 1:45.0 | more and more keeping things to himself. |
| 1:48.0 | Alison became more focused on the family and the children and the church. |
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