You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

This week, Dan is joined by his wife, Becky Allender, to wrap up our series on aging.

Dan and Becky reflect on what it means to embrace aging as a couple by discussing the importance of owning our limitations,

moving toward kindness to ourselves,

and holding both the levity and gravity of aging together.

Well, it is our final podcast of the summer.

August is about over.

And Becky and I are going to finish off this aging series by talking about what it means for us as a couple as we age to engage this.

And at least to argue that you don't need to be

in your 60s to acknowledge your aging. When you move from your 20s to your 30s, that was a

transition at age 30 that was absolutely the most difficult, I think, of my life so far. So we're

talking about aging. What is the gain of aging? Most people

consider it to be a bitter and in many ways depressing topic. But we have actually found it to be one

that opens the door to a lot of joy. So we want to see if we can capture just a few things about

what we have learned and what we think is an invitation to bless the process of aging. And

what a delight to have you with me, Becky, particularly because you're an older woman, not just

an older woman in life, but you are older than I, so you have

much more to say. It's amazing what five months can do to be called an older woman, but I will

own it. I am an older woman. When we're in some setting and somebody says, who's the oldest,

they always look to me. You look much younger.

Nonetheless, it is accurate to say five months. I mean, you are already going through stranger

anxiety by the point I was born. So a lot developmentally had occurred and still occurs.

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