Welcome to the show. I'm Dr. Corie Allen alongside my wife, Pam. Good to be here.

Each and every week we try to help frame conversations and actions that help create better

connection, better love, better life, better relationship, better marriage, better family.

Because that's the thing I love about our show in the sense of passionately married.

This passionately can apply to everything. I want to do things passionately.

If I think about it, a lot of that is just contingent on what's the spirit in which I bring

to the occasion. I think that's a big part of it. It's with intention. It's with a desire

to be present. Being engaged, being alive and active and it's interesting because in

our life right now, with our family, we just dropped our oldest off at college. So the

first one has now flown the coop, if you will, at least for the semester and the year and

better come home still, girl, if you're listening, but to visit but it's interesting because

the dynamic now is felt at home because it's shifted. It's a different dynamic now.

There's just three, not the four. That changes things. That's disruptive.

She was a fun part of the four at home. There's that whole. Anyone who's had the kid leave

the nest knows what that's like right now.

That's where it's important, I think, to have regular occurrences where we are checking

back in, staying connected, staying engaged, balancing everything that goes on. As life

kind of demands shifts because life has a process where things change. Kids grow up and

leave circumstances happen with extended family, circumstances happen with immediate family,

you know, just a lot of things that go on that can be disruptive. And one of the things

to recognize is how do you adjust and address those things as cleanly and as upfront as

you can, which to me, passion. That's the idea of presence and engagement. And today's

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