Christmas-Proof Your Marriage
Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)
Danielle Bean
4.9 • 810 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In the weeks that lead up to Christmas, financial stress, social pressure, and endless to-do lists can add up to a tense situation in your marriage. We need to take steps to protect and nurture our marriages during the busy season of Advent.
Danielle shares some ideas:
Pause.
Take a breath before responding to your spouse in a challenging situation.
Spend time together.
It’s always important for couples to make time for each other, but even more so during stressful times. Enjoy the holidays together!
Talk.
A little communication ahead of time goes a long way toward avoiding misunderstandings and conflict.
Give in.
Compromise whenever you can, and convince yourself to let little things go.
See the big picture.
Ask yourself: Will any of these stresses and annoyances matter a hundred years from now? Next month? Next week? Even the day after tomorrow? Turn the whole mess over to Baby Jesus and pray for the gift of perspective.
At the end of this week’s show, Danielle replies to Alyssa who wrote in to say how much she enjoyed our recent episode about finding more time in your day.
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| 0:00.0 | Girlfriends, episode number 402, Christmas Proof Your Marriage. |
| 0:04.3 | Hello, and welcome to Girlfriends. |
| 0:06.2 | I'm Danielle Bean. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to help you. |
| 0:10.2 | Know your worth is a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy in family living. |
| 0:14.3 | This week, we are talking about Christmas proofing your marriage. |
| 0:17.1 | What do I mean by that? |
| 0:18.5 | I can't wait to share with you. |
| 0:19.8 | Let's get going. |
| 0:27.4 | Music marriage. What do I mean by that? I can't wait to share with you. Let's get going. Hey, girlfriend. Thank you so much for being here. I am thrilled that you have chosen to spend some |
| 0:31.9 | time with me here so close to Christmas time. I'm thrilled that you are spending some of your |
| 0:37.2 | Advent season right here on girlfriends. Thank you so much for showing up. I'm thrilled that you are spending some of your Advent season right here |
| 0:38.5 | on girlfriends. Thank you so much for showing up. Thank you for that. All right, let's talk about |
| 0:42.7 | Christmas proofing your marriage. Like, what? Why am I talking about that? What does that mean? What's |
| 0:46.3 | Christmas going to do to your marriage? Well, maybe you already know. This is an especially |
| 0:50.7 | stressful time of year. It is stressful on our calendars. We have so many things |
| 0:57.4 | going on. We have additional things going on. It is stressful on, you know, our daily to-dos, right? |
| 1:04.7 | You've got things like shopping and wrapping and baking and hosting and really adds to your |
| 1:10.4 | list of things that you want to do. |
| 1:12.5 | And then you've got financial pressures, and that's no small thing, right? |
| 1:18.2 | It's tough to budget for Christmas time and Christmas celebrations, and sometimes you're |
| 1:22.6 | on a very limited budget, and that can be stressful in its own way. |
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