Episode 241: A Christian Understanding of Marriage (Part 1 of 3)
Feeding The Mouth That Bites You: Parenting Teens Into Adulthood
Kenneth Wilgus, Cynthia Yanof
4.8 • 801 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week on Feeding the Mouth That Bites You, Cynthia and Dr. Ken kick off a three-part series on Christian marriage.
They start off with a little humor (including Cynthia’s list of things husbands should probably never say if they want to stay married), but the conversation quickly turns to a bigger question: why does marriage sometimes bring out the most intense reactions in otherwise reasonable people?
From a Christian perspective, marriage is more than two individuals trying to get along. Scripture describes it as a unique kind of unity—two people becoming “one flesh.” That closeness is part of what makes marriage so meaningful, but it’s also why the relationship can feel so intense at times.
Dr. Ken shares something he’s seen over decades of working with couples—many of the conflicts we think are about communication or personality are actually connected to deeper fears that husbands and wives carry but don’t always realize.
Today is the starting point for a three-week conversation on marriage—we hope you’ll join us!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Feeding the Mouth to Bight You, a weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm Cynthia Yanov, and as always, I'm joined by psychologist and author Dr. Ken Wilgus. |
| 0:20.5 | I wouldn't say that I wrote the book on and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus. |
| 0:27.0 | I wouldn't say that I wrote the book on marriage, but I did write a book that talked a tiny bit about marriage. |
| 0:28.6 | Is that worth anything for today's show? |
| 0:29.7 | Let me think. |
| 0:31.9 | Yes. |
| 0:32.8 | Okay. Let's go with yes. |
| 0:34.2 | I think that's a good answer. |
| 0:36.1 | I love that we're doing a three-part series on marriage, and this is |
| 0:40.1 | week one. Right. Is this a first for you? Like for this show, have you done much on marriage in the past? |
| 0:47.0 | You know, it's funny. I do a lot. So first of all, I've been counseling couples for 30 years. So marriage is a big part of what I do. |
| 0:56.3 | I think on this program, we have talked more than a couple times about the importance of marriage |
| 1:02.2 | and the effect it has on your parenting. But I told you this, that last Friday, by the time |
| 1:09.7 | this is airing, last Friday focused on the family, |
| 1:12.9 | very kindly presented a talk I gave at their, it was basically their staff meeting and it was |
| 1:21.3 | about marriage. And it was one of those that, it just didn't go well. I was confused, very fire hosy. I fire hose all the time |
| 1:30.8 | anyway. It's so hard to know. You know, I'm not a speaker. I'm a therapist. So speaking is trying |
| 1:36.2 | to simplify things and choose which cubbyhole not to get into, which rabbit trail not to go down. |
| 1:43.1 | And I didn't do a very good job and I thought they |
| 1:46.0 | were very kind they held onto it three years and thanks to the woman there Lisa Kadman who heavily |
| 1:50.5 | edited it it's only a fire hose and moderately confusing instead of the mess that it was so it did |
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