So last couple weeks we've been talking about lies and deception in marriage.

And the biggest way, and we're pretty well known for this, not that we're really great at it,

but we're known, I think, kind of for this word of transparency is one of the biggest ways that we can combat,

living in darkness, living in the light.

Just kind of known for this. It's okay, you can keep it. Well, people are always saying, like, we love how you're transparent. We love that you show kind of your marriage and your weaknesses and all of that. Fact check true. It's, I guess it's just when people think fierce marriage, I think one of the words that comes to mind is transparency, which is good. I hope that it is. Well, we did literally write the book on it. See through marriage.

Here it is. Check it out. Check it out. It's so Cedar. You can't even see it.

Only, only video watchers will get that trick. So yeah, so today's practical tools. So in

response to the previous two marriage episodes, we've talked about deception, lying, truth telling, and what the importance of it, honesty in marriage. Yes. So here's some tools for truer honesty and we, in other words, transparency, right? Yep. Did I say that right? Okay, perfect. We'll see you on the other side.

So before we jump into this conversation, I am Selena Frederick. This is my husband.

Ryan Frederick. And we are the faces, voices, everything behind fierce marriage, fierce parenting,

fierce, all the things. Yeah, thanks for joining us. Yes. We know that it takes time and attention to tune in to something about marriage to make your marriage better. And so our hope is that we will do that,

will help you, will serve you well in that, to that end, making your marriage better.

But more than that, we just want to shine the light of scripture on these issues and areas of life. And that's kind of our promise to you is that we're going to stick to Scripture. We're going to stick to the gospel and be as honest as we can because we're talking about honesty today. Yes. So if you want to support, like, subscribe, rate, review, YouTube, podcast, whatever. All that stuff really matters. By the way, ratings on podcast, it's like I can't escape my past. So we've been doing this for five years. Yes. And real early on, we were not that great. We were good at it. And we were, a lot of times we would. God still use our feeble efforts. Yes. And we would talk over one another. Sometimes we still do that. Just kidding. Because we can, we kind of read each other's minds in a sense. We know what you're trying to say and we'll try to say maybe in a better, quicker way. You can read my mind. It's on record. You can read my mind. It's on record that you can't read mine. I'm kidding. And so anyway, people generally when they find the podcast, they'll listen to the first episodes,

and then they'll comment and they'll be like, right? It's all great. You guys are good. But here's, by the way, reviewers are really sweet about this. I'm not trying to, it's not against them. It's just, it's irritating to me, old me, irritates new me. Because I feel like we've grown. You have. So I'm being honest. We're talking about transparency.

Transparency, and sometimes it hurts.

So anyway, I'm thinking about ratings and reviews. And we do read

those for better or worse. Thank you if you've left one. You do help us. And leave a comment

on YouTube if you're there. Trying to be too much more meta for the rest of the episode.

So recap. Yes. Two episodes back, we talked about three lies of isolation.

I'm not going to give those away.

You need to go check them out for yourself.

But three lies, we tend to believe in our marriage that kind of keep us isolated from one another.

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