Episode 97: Connecting With Your Spouse: Setting Priority As Foster Parents

The Forgotten Podcast

The Forgotten Initiative

Christian, Kids & Family, Fostercare, Family, Adoption

4.9 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

With the demands of parenting, time spent connecting with your spouse can easily be moved to the back-burner. It's a slow progression of choices and unintended consequences of decisions made. You intend to have that conversation with your husband, but with the caseworker coming over for a home visit today, it gets pushed lower on the priority list. Interruptions bring a change in plans, and suddenly, you haven't been able to have a date night in months. In our foster parenting journey, and now, raising a big family, I know my time with my husband, Clint, is so valuable. I am so thankful for our time together when it comes every other Tuesday night, but early on, I wasn't as good at protecting that time on the calendar. I allowed it to be moved, thinking we could make it up at some other time and then another week would pass without an intentional time to connect. I recently talked with Jill Savage about this, and why it's actually good for our children for us to invest in our marriages.

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0:00.0	Meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey, this is The Forgotten Podcast.
0:09.9	Every child is longing for stability.
0:13.9	And stability starts in the family unit, and it starts with mom and dad.
0:20.5	So if mom and dad are okay, kids are okay.
0:26.9	Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast. I love being in this space with you.
0:34.0	If you are part of the foster care community or interested in learning more, and especially if you
0:39.5	are walking this road with your spouse, today's conversation is for you. My guest Jill Savage and I talk
0:46.2	about the demands of parenting as well as the warning signs indicating a shift from a marriage-centered
0:51.6	home to a child-centered home. Listen, I know it can feel overwhelming
0:56.7	enough to keep up with the demands of the children in our homes. Today's conversation will bring
1:02.6	hope and help us love our spouses well, while also navigating how to love our kids well. This
1:09.3	balancing act is difficult, and yet so worth it, because when we
1:14.0	do this, albeit imperfectly, we will love one another better and in turn grow stronger together
1:20.8	and closer to Christ as a family unit. That's the goal. Jill gives us many practical tools and strategies throughout
1:29.5	today's episode, so I encourage you to head over to our show notes where we've written these
1:34.3	down for you. You can find those at the forgottenpodcast.org. You'll also find ways to connect with
1:40.7	Jill and her ministry there. If you're struggling in your marriage or just need a boost to keep you going,
1:46.6	I'd encourage you to check out more of her resources.
1:49.7	Again, you can find all that at the forgotten podcast.org.
1:53.9	All right, let's go now to my conversation with Jill Savage.
2:03.6	Marriage, children, work, friendships, home, church.
2:08.5	Everyone listening has a myriad of things they are juggling.
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