Connection in Marriage During a Pandemic

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Continuing to talk about the impact of the pandemic on relationships, Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen invite Dr. Steve Call into a conversation about the impact of covid-19 on marriage. We do not approach this topic lightly—we know there is much heartache and brokenness in many homes. Marriage itself is full of complexity and possibility. We hope you hear encouragement, vulnerability, and playfulness as Steve invites us to hear how tension and conflict is created, how increased exposure can lead to shame, and the beauty couples can offer one another when they remind each other what is true.

Resources:

Listen to a podcast series featuring Steve on Reconnection in Marriage

Read Steve’s book, reconnect: insights and tools for cultivating meaningful connection in your marriage

Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.5	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Chen.
0:10.6	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.8	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:27.6	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Well, today we're going to venture into the very holy, tender, complex, and sometimes, I would say, kind of war-ravaged places of our lives.
0:40.6	We want to talk about marriage and some of the complexity and madness, but possibility,
0:47.2	and also the presumptions of what is playing out in our marriages in the midst of a COVID-19 world.
0:55.9	And we don't come to this topic lightly.
0:58.1	We're aware that statistics of domestic violence, of just some of the dangers and heartache
1:05.3	and brokenness in our homes are at such a heightened level right now.
1:09.4	So our hope today is really just to bring some
1:12.6	encouragement, some honesty and vulnerability and and playfulness to the realm of marriage. So I'm
1:22.2	here with Dan and Steve and Dan. I'm going to let you introduce Steve. Oh, I'm so grateful that I get to introduce one of my dearest friends on the earth,
1:32.6	but also my decade-long fly fishing partner.
1:38.3	So, Steve, you are the author of a remarkable book on marriage that will probably come back and refer to a number of
1:47.2	times. But it's called Reconnect Insights and Tools for Cultivating Meaningful Connection in
1:53.7	Your Marriage. And I am privileged to be able to have written the foreword. But this is a sweet, it's just a superb book on
2:04.5	marriage. And so, Steve, as we walk into this, one of the things that I have deeply appreciated
2:12.2	about you and your life is that you, you know, you're a mess as a human being and as a husband.
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