Welcome to the Bear Marriage Podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Gregmer from Bear Marriage.com where we like to talk about biblical evidence-based.

Ha, I haven't gone this in a month and I said it wrong.

We'll try that again. Where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based

biblical advice for your marriage and your sex life and we are back after a month-long vacation. I am

joined today by my daughter Rebecca Lindenbach.

Hello, hello. And this is the first podcast in our new season.

And I already messed up the intro. So we are on episode 201 and we are so glad to be back with you.

Normally for those of me watching on YouTube we would be like sitting side by side, but I took

a month long vacation and we ended that vacation with COVID.

Yep, I feel like this is just how things go now.

Yeah, so I had a very mild case. My husband's actually quite, and Rebecca just doesn't want to get it from my husband.

Absolutely not. No. So we are staying in separate houses while he recovers, and I am recording downstairs because he's coughing so much upstairs.

So he is okay though. I don't mean to make light of it. He's just kind of feeling miserable.

Yeah, so what we want to talk about today is to set the stage for the Bear Marriage

podcast this season.

Season 3, right?

I don't even know what season is. I think it might even be season 4. It depends how you count seasons. But yeah, like this is, we've been, we hit two and a half million downloads while we were on vacations so that's exciting a lot of people are

listening in and during this month that we had off and even in the months leading up to that we've been doing a lot of doing a lot of thinking, a lot of strategizing, a lot of praying, and just asking the question, like, where do we want to go now? Because we've spent, you know, several years really tackling toxic books and toxic teachings and calling things out and I think what

where we want to go now is to ask the question what would it look like if we

actually just had healthy marriages? Yeah. You know if you want to put the toxic stuff behind you and walk forward in health, how do you actually do that and what does that look like?

You know, what does it look like to have the Jesus way of doing there?

So that doesn't mean that we're not going to talk, that we're not going to explain toxic stuff,

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