Emotional Maturity, Teamwork, and 25 years of Marriage :: Bruce and Heather [Ep 458]
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Don't Mom Alone Podcast
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
I discuss how I’ve grown in emotional maturity while Bruce talks about how to get out of the ruts and routines of work and family life. We also tackle different personality types and how we handle those when parenting our boys. Teen parenting is hard y’all, there are no formulas but we have learned that teamwork is essential.
God had been so good and faithful through 25 years of marriage and parenting. Join us today as we share the vulnerable, hard, and good parts of the journey.
Connect with Bruce:
- Website: zello.com/about-us
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-macfadyen/
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- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- Parenting with Hope: Raising Teens for Christ in a Secular Age: by Melissa B. Kruger
- Shōgun: The Complete Novel: by James Clavell
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany: by William Shirer
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all welcome back to the don't mom alone podcast I'm your host Heather Mcphadion and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you and |
| 0:15.0 | connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone and in this |
| 0:20.0 | episode number 458 and welcoming back to the show my favorite guy Bruce McFadion. |
| 0:27.0 | Starting with that connection like today what's the Chinese proverb it says like when do you plant a tree? |
| 0:34.2 | Well you should have planted it yesterday. |
| 0:36.2 | You should have planted it 20 years ago. |
| 0:38.4 | Oh. |
| 0:39.3 | But if you didn't today is the right day to play this room. |
| 0:45.0 | This March, Bruce and I celebrated a monumental moment in our marriage 25 years, a quarter of a century and so I'm bringing them back on the show |
| 0:56.6 | to share what we've learned answer some of your questions. Bruce has pretty much |
| 1:01.4 | come on every year of the podcast and so if you love hearing from him |
| 1:05.5 | just go to my website Heather McFagnan.com go in the podcast search bar you can search |
| 1:11.8 | at any time any topic and I'm sure you'll find a conversation I've had on it |
| 1:15.1 | But if you want to search Bruce you'll find those conversations whether it's |
| 1:18.7 | strength finders whether it's reserving the right to change your mind and re-homeing a puppy |
| 1:22.4 | teenage stuff all the things. |
| 1:25.0 | Today answering questions about what have we learned, like I said, and how do you make time for intimacy? |
| 1:31.0 | What do you do when your spouse is struggling in their faith, and what are we looking forward to |
| 1:36.8 | when our kids are grown and flown with our oldest heading off to college? That is sooner than I can |
| 1:41.8 | imagine, it's going to happen y'all I'm going to be |
| 1:44.2 | empty nested it's it's been a long time coming but here it comes and if you look at |
| 1:50.1 | the show notes you might be like what are Heather and Bruce talking about you'll listen to some of |
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