Conflict that Grows Your Marriage
The Real Life Podcast
Jefferson Bethke
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, Jeff and Alyssa Bethke talk about the "real life" part of the podcast by reflecting on a recent fight they had and talk about communication and friction in marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | Today Show is sponsored by Brooklyn and these are the best sheets we've ever slept on and you can get $20 off in free shipping if you go to Brooklynin.com and use my promo code real at checkout. That's Brooklynin.com promo code real. |
| 0:19.1 | I struggle a lot with anxiety and wanting to I'm realizing wanting to control like my anxiousness is me wanting to kind of control or be comfortable or not like wanting to |
| 0:25.4 | Do things and so sometimes I struggle to trust Jeff because ultimately I'm not trusting the Lord with like |
| 0:31.2 | whatever it may be. Hey guys, welcome to the real life podcast where we talk about exactly that every single week, real life, which means some episodes might be about a fight we just had, some |
| 0:45.8 | episodes might be about potty training since we have two toddlers, and some might be about |
| 0:49.9 | eschatological realism because I love thinking and talking about deep theological things. |
| 0:54.8 | And maybe we'll talk about all three of those in one episode. |
| 0:57.5 | But we hope the show feels like hanging out in our living room with us drinking a cup of coffee |
| 1:01.9 | as we discuss faith and family and culture and Jesus. |
| 1:06.3 | Me and my lovely wife, Alyssa, are your host and don't hesitate to hit us up or reach out on |
| 1:10.7 | social media to say hi or comment on this week's episode. |
| 1:14.4 | Enjoy! |
| 1:15.4 | What's up guys? I'm Jeff. I'm Melissa and welcome back to the real life |
| 1:26.4 | podcast. Another day another dollar. Okay guys so the other day we did an |
| 1:32.4 | episode called or an episode on eschatological realism |
| 1:36.2 | which that was kind of a joke not that topic but the reason it was an insight joke there |
| 1:40.2 | because our intro says that phrase we say I think we talk about potty training and a fight we just had and |
| 1:44.6 | eschatological realism. So when we did that a lot of you guys love that and then you said, hey, like do the rest. You know, I don't know if we'll do a whole episode on potty train that might come up. |
| 1:52.8 | But we said hey we haven't done one on a fight we just had and guess what guys? |
| 1:56.0 | We just had a fight about a week or two ago. I mean we probably you know |
| 1:59.3 | had one earlier this morning or yesterday or whenever but a little bit bit more, you know, like beef cake warm? |
| 2:03.6 | What happened was, um, so I said, let's talk about it. |
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