Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you.

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.

On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith.

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Welcome to the Awesome marriage podcast today.

We are honored to have our taggart join us. She is a therapist, a speaker, and an author.

She and Gary have been married 40 years. She's been a therapist and she's helped couples for over 30 years. And Noroy is a very passionate about strengthening marriages, helping couples overcome obstacles, looking to try to have a thriving marriage.

She has so much of the same desires as we do at Awesome Marriage.

So, Lord, it is an honor to have you today.

It's great to welcome you to the Awesome Marriage podcast.

It's delightful to be here.

Thank you for having me.

You bet.

Well, we're going to talk a lot about your new book, Making Love Less, Divorce Proofing, Your Young Marriage.

But before we get into that, let's have you tell us a little about you, you and Gary, how you met, your family, just anything you'd want to share in that area.

So we met in high school in Shakespeare class.

And no, we were not Romeo, Juliet, but we were at the time.

And so, and then he went off to college, and I followed after he said he was a year older.

And so we were at UCLA together for those years.

And then we got married just after my junior year of college and he was

working. And then I went to work and he went to graduate school. Then he went to work and I went to

graduate school. So we just kind of supported each other in our education. And then of course,

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