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That's exactly what I'm here to do with my new podcast from Focus on the Family. It's called

Pastor to Pastor with Dave Stone. I'm so excited to help you navigate the unique challenges

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So I invite you to listen and subscribe to pastor to pastor wherever you get your podcasts. Friends, welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show.

This is Lisa Anderson here with you.

And as we often like to do, a little preview of what is coming up on the show.

For our inbox, we're going to answer the

question, what do you do when the person you are dating has a narcissistic family member,

and that is playing into your relationship? One of our counselors will answer that. And then for

our culture segment, why do so many Christian movies feel cringe? Our friends Paul Asay and Emily Chow are going to

join us for that. They are part of our plugged in team here at Focus. And so here we are for our

roundtable. Speaking of fun conversations, we're going to talk about divorce. No, we're not. We're going to talk

about breaking the cycle of divorce in your own family and realizing that with God's help,

you can do relationships well. God is a fan of marriage. He's the author of marriage. He designed

it, and he's a champion of it. And scripturally, we know that certainly there is freedom for folks who are in Christ and give control in that area. So to talk about this, we have got some great friends here at the table. We have Ryan. Hello. Hey, hey. We have Derek. Hello. And Ruth. Hi. Hey, y'all. Okay. Well, this is going to be good because I, you know, it's not, I often say on the show when I introduce guests. It's not like we're just, hey, let's talk about divorce. So these are the three people that immediately came to mind. But it is always great when we bring just ourselves to bear. We get a two-fer with Ruth because she's actually a psychologist, Dr. Ruth. So we appreciate you being here. She's one of my great friends. All right. So let's talk about this because everyone here also is married with the exception of me. So this is why I get to be just like passive. You know, I get to be like, hey, okay, you guys are the experts. So first of all, let's just go around. Give a little bit of just your own experience um, experience, kind of a little snapshot of where

you are in life, how this topic plays into it, um, you know, expertise, all of that. And we'll go

from there. Ryan, why don't you kick us off briefly? Um, yeah, I'm, I'm married, uh, first year of

marriage, uh, baby girl on the way. Um, to be clear, we've been married longer than, you know, so everything, everything's good and kosher. Um, marriage is going really well. It was way easier the first year than what we were told. Um, which that's surprising. Usually apparently the first second or third year is really, really hard.

So that's a blessing.

So on my mom's side, there has been kind of a series of divorces and broken relationships

kind of since my great-grandmother.

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