Hey friends, I'm Jess Connolly. I'm an author, a coach, a Bible teacher, and a local church leader, and I love talking to real people who know what it means to have full lives, but also want to walk in abundance.

This podcast is for you. It's not my podcast. It's ours. It's for people who crave lighthearted conversations and deeply

spiritual truth. It's for people who are busy, tired, waiting, growing, dreaming,

working, or praying about what's next. Wherever you're listening from, if it's quiet,

mundane, or busy, I am praying for you,

and I'm so glad you're here. Let's go. Hey, friends, I'm here with a quick disclaimer

before you listen to this episode. I love, and I am so grateful for you guys telling me that you

sometimes listen to the podcast with your kids in the

car or nearby. But I want to let you know up front, this episode is not safe for smaller ears.

Hit pause and come back when you're alone. We're going to talk about some sensitive marriage topics

and you're going to hear from a guest on the podcast. This is not our norm. It won't be our norm moving

forward, but we are keeping it in the episode and not editing it out because the passion of

the moment fits the subject matter and it was genuine to the discussion. You might not even catch it.

The real disclaimer, however, for this episode is that you're going to notice a lot of coughing.

You're probably going to notice that more than you notice the four-letter word.

It was flu season, no one was contagious, but there were some coughs that we ultimately couldn't

edit out, and we apologize.

All that to say, this is still a do-not-miss episode, and we know God is going to use it to change lives. So let's go.

I don't know a married person who hasn't maybe dreamed about how their life might be different

if they married a different person. Maybe for some of us that sounds like a nightmare.

And maybe for a lot of us,

that feels like an imaginary pass out of a relationship that is currently so hard, we don't feel

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