Date Your Spouse Like You’re Still Learning Them | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 70
After Hours With Amanda
After Hours With Amanda
5.0 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I’m talking about the sweetest Disney Pandora surprise, why the Tiana charm felt like a hug from my mom and big J, and how those little glimmers can remind us to keep going when life does not look how we pictured it.
Then we get into marriage, miscommunication, keeping score, serving each other when we are both tired, and what it really means to date your spouse like you are still learning them. I’m not speaking as an expert. I’m just sharing what I’m learning in real time with Blake, life, grief, dreams, and all the tiny chaos in between.
00:00 We Took a Week Off
01:00 Laguna Beach and a Little Disclaimer
02:29 The Pandora Surprise
08:25 Looking for the Princess Charms
10:42 Why Tiana Means So Much
14:26 Snail Mail From a Princess
15:18 The Charm That Felt Like a Hug
17:45 Keep Going When You Feel Behind
20:16 You Are Right Where You Need to Be
21:46 When the Emotional Board Turns Back On
25:10 Marriage, Miscommunication, and No Judgment
26:59 Date Your Spouse Like You’re Still Learning Them
29:34 Giving All Day and Keeping Score
33:41 Coming Back With a Servant’s Heart
41:28 Learning Each Other Again
45:05 The Heart Posture of Repair
48:09 The Boxes We Keep Unpacking
51:03 Glimmers, Prayer, and Encouragement
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of After Hours with Amanda. |
| 0:04.6 | We did not miss last week. |
| 0:06.6 | We took off last week. |
| 0:07.9 | So this is episode four. |
| 0:09.8 | And the reason was was the tiny queens were out of school and we went skiing. |
| 0:14.6 | By went skiing. |
| 0:15.7 | I meant everybody else went skiing and I worked on my pizza skills. |
| 0:19.7 | Not the kind you get to eat because dairy and |
| 0:22.3 | gluten. But no, by the end of the day, I'm telling you, next year I sort of want to, I don't want to pay for |
| 0:28.7 | passes because I don't want to take out a small mortgage. But I would like to ski more next year because |
| 0:35.5 | I feel like I could be good at it. It's not something |
| 0:39.1 | that I got to do as a kid. So I think that it's something that I could actually be good at. |
| 0:45.2 | So there's that. So I was like, I'm not going to put pressure on myself. We were going to go up on |
| 0:49.8 | Friday and then there was a big storm. So we had to push it up to Saturday. And were they still |
| 0:53.2 | going to take our tickets on Saturday? |
| 0:54.5 | And it was like a whole thing. |
| 0:57.0 | Okay. |
| 0:58.0 | But I want to talk because did you see the announcement, the Lutaguna Beach reunion? |
| 1:04.0 | I don't have Roku. |
| 1:06.0 | How am I going to? |
| 1:07.0 | I thought, okay, and correct me if I'm wrong, I thought Roku was the thing you plugged into your TV, like little, no, that was the fire stick. That was the fire stick. |
| 1:15.0 | Roku's an app. I just realized that as I was saying it. Um, we are going to talk about something |
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