Episode 13: Keeping Your Marriage Strong While Parenting Teenagers

Feeding The Mouth That Bites You: Parenting Teens Into Adulthood

Kenneth Wilgus, PhD, P.C.

Christian Parenting, Christianity, Teens, Education, Teenagers, Kids, Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality, Adolescents, How To, Parenting Teens, Parents

4.9 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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How can parents of teenagers maintain a strong marriage? In this episode, we talk about the particular need that teenagers have to see their parents' marriage as close and stable. Also, Dr. Ken gives us some practical tips on maintaining a good marriage during the "Feeding The Mouth That Bites You" years. Got questions or feedback? We want to hear from you! [email protected] Join us on Patreon for bonus content and more: https://www.patreon.com/FeedingTheMouthThatBitesYou

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0:00.0	You are listening to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You with Ashley Parrish and Jessica Pfeiffer.
0:05.4	A weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.
0:10.1	As always, we are joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.
0:14.7	Hey, everyone, and welcome back on today's episode.
0:18.2	We're going to be discussing parenting teens and marriage. I'm your host,
0:22.2	Ashley Parrish. As always, I'm joined by Jessica Pfeiffer. Hey there. And Dr. Ken Wilkes.
0:27.8	Hi, kids. If we've been married for in any length of time, we know that marriage is difficult on
0:33.8	its own. And having children and teenagers add extra stress. Am I right, Jessica?
0:41.1	Yes, absolutely. I knew we were going to have some struggles when our oldest son, Will,
0:47.2	was just three weeks old. And my husband asked, when is he going to get his own room? I just
0:52.6	want my wife back. You know,
0:56.2	Charlie's always been better about prioritizing our marriage over the kids, but I've really
1:00.4	struggled with it. Dr. Ken, would you say that's common? Absolutely. You can't do good counseling
1:07.1	about parenting without running into issues with marriage. So now I do a whole lot of
1:13.1	focus on marriage, partly because like I say, you can't really talk about parenting issues
1:18.6	without getting at some point into important issues with your marriage. And I think as women,
1:24.8	it's so easy for us to get wrapped up in mothering. And it becomes kind of our
1:31.0	identity and in some cases without realizing an idol. We put our children first. That's true. That's
1:38.8	hard not to do. So Dr. Ken, you know, we should be transitioning to spending less time caring for the needs of our kids as they get older. But sometimes we have a hard time with this and it takes away from our marriage. What do you think is really going on behind all of this? Well, it's important to think about that most all of us marry on some sense of compatibility. You know, I always say that my wife, I thought I was
2:03.9	marrying a hot version of me. Like we just seemed to think alike and, you know, all this stuff.
2:10.0	Then, you know, within the first year, virtually everyone discovers the incompatibilities.
2:16.2	But you really can feel that incompatibility in three big areas.
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