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🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Super Bowl Champion Harrison Butker and his wife Isabelle discuss marriage, fatherhood, motherhood, and raising virtuous children in a chaotic world.
Isabelle opens up about the often unseen strength of motherhood, the beauty of sacrifice, and what young women should look for in a husband. Harrison shares what he admires most about his wife, how they live out their vocations as Catholic parents, and why men must reclaim their role as spiritual leaders in the home.
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Whether you’re a parent, single, dating, or discerning your vocation, this conversation will challenge and encourage you to pursue holiness in your home.
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0:00.0 | But I did want to ask you like the complimentary obviously of motherhood, like what the role of the mother, like what you consider the role of the mother is in the family. |
0:09.0 | Well, the mother kind of sets, well, I said the dad sets the tone, but the mother has to keep the tempo going. |
0:20.0 | Something that I feel like I've learned the hard way is that my temperament, my kind of disposition |
0:27.6 | can really affect how everyone else is doing. |
0:29.6 | So just taking that role seriously of keeping things moving smoothly and being even killed |
0:35.6 | and knowing that you are kind of everybody's support system |
0:38.9 | but that that's such a gift you know that you have a crying child they run to you you pick |
0:42.9 | them up they stop crying that you know ideally yeah ideally it doesn't always happen but |
0:48.3 | you're like I'm so it's so such a blessing to be able to be your safe place you know I |
0:52.7 | don't know it's it's a lot of sacrifice, |
0:55.7 | a lot of patience, but all things we all need to grow in. And I don't really know how I |
1:01.0 | have a chance to get to heaven without it. So, you know. What's the one thing that you love most |
1:07.4 | about your wife? Oh, what do I love most about my wife? I think she suffers well, |
1:11.5 | and I think any great saint, any great Catholic embraces that suffering. And Isabel grew up playing many sports, so I don't know if she got it there. We're trying to figure out how to instill that. In our daughters, obviously with the sons, I can, you know, push them. But with the girls, I do want them to be able to suffer well and push through it because |
1:29.0 | you might have three crying babies and you're cooking dinner and you're cleaning, you're |
1:33.0 | doing all this stuff. |
1:34.0 | And I'm trying to help out, but as we talked about, I'm not there in the home as much. |
1:37.8 | So being able to embrace the sufferings that come along with being a mother and juggling |
1:42.5 | that well, that is something that I have just admired in Isabel. |
1:46.0 | And I'm so thankful to have her as my wife. |
1:50.0 | And I know your audience probably knows the love languages, |
1:53.0 | but my number one love language is acts of service. |
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