How to Reignite Your Marriage After Having Kids
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
When the kids are born, men focus on being a father. We cannot falter in our role as a provider and protector. Our spouses focus on being mothers, which is a twenty-four-hour, seven-days-a-week job. Our marriages inevitably suffer, but many parents feel guilty for leaving the kids.
On today’s short episode, I’m going share my personal experience and why you need to leave the kids behind and spend some time getting to know your spouse again.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads. Dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge. |
| 0:10.0 | We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:29.0 | What's up guys? What's up guys? Welcome to episode 75 of Thursday throwdown and today I am just going to get right into the meat and the |
| 0:36.7 | potatoes of what today's show is all about and if you guys hear a sense of happiness and amazingness in my voice, it's because I literally |
| 0:48.0 | just got back last night from a one-on-one vacation with my wife. |
| 0:52.8 | And we have not done this for almost 10 years. |
| 0:58.5 | And we've been married for 14 years. |
| 1:00.6 | And I'm gonna tell you some details, you know, what we did, why we did this trip, why we decided not to take the kids on this trip, and what it did for our relationship. |
| 1:12.0 | So if you guys been following the podcast for quite some of them, and what it did for our relationship. |
| 1:12.6 | So if you guys been following the podcast |
| 1:14.8 | for quite some time following the Good Dad Project movement, |
| 1:17.2 | the Dad Edge movement, you know we're big on making sure, |
| 1:21.0 | you know, hey, we're parents first I'm sorry we're scratched that we |
| 1:25.3 | are married first we're a couple first and then we're parents now some people |
| 1:30.4 | will disagree with that but that is what my wife and I absolutely live by. |
| 1:35.0 | We're married first and we're parents second. |
| 1:38.0 | We truly feel that our relationship is the foundation of this family. |
| 1:43.8 | I mean, we really look at this family |
| 1:45.8 | as if it were a house and we are the foundation. |
| 1:49.7 | And if we're not strong and our relationship is not thriving, it's really hard to |
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