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Dear Young Married Couple

In SICKNESS and in HEALTH w/ Danny and Alana Opdyke - 20 Years of Chronic Pain

Dear Young Married Couple

Adam & Karissa King

Christianity, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8871 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

"There were times when I felt like God completely forgot about us. So I had to lean on Alana to tell me that this IS worth praying for." In this episode, we interview Danny and Alana Opdyke, who share their story of conquering the low-lows that your marriage can experience when going through chronic pain. Over the past 20 years of their marriage, Danny has had the following surgeries/procedures: 2002 - Laminectomy / Discectomy of L4/5-LS1 2004 - Anterior & Posterior Lumbar Fusion 2004 - Broken Foot 2006 - Pain Pump #1 2012 - Pain Pump #2 2015 - Snapped Tibia - Rod Placed 2015 - Knee surgery 2016 - Oral Surgeries 2017 - Pain Pump #3 from internal pump failure 2018 - Plantar Plate Rupture/ plate installed / multiple toes fused.   Here are the books that Danny + Alana recommend for someone in a chronic health/pain situation: You'll Get Through This by Max Lucado (free on Kindle with Prime) It's Not Supposed to Be This Way by Lysa TerKeurst   Here's a link to RELATE (our sponsor). Use code "DYMC" for 20% off.   Stay in conversation with us on IG: @dearyoungmarriedcouple or on our website: www.dearyoungmarriedcouple.com   P.S. Here are the links to the marriage card decks they talked about in the episode: FOUNDATIONS: https://amzn.to/2RaXF7g SEXPECTATIONS: https://amzn.to/2GbVMRA REALIZATIONS: https://amzn.to/3brNTWh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Being unequally yoked, you hear that term and it means something different for everyone.

0:35.3

But when that's most important is when your world is falling

0:40.4

apart. Because there's a lot of times in your marriage where you've lost sight. You've lost

0:45.6

everything that you planned your life to be. So the only thing you have left is your guys's

0:51.0

relationship with God. We knew how to pray together.

0:54.5

The problem I had was having faith to pray

0:57.9

when I was at that low.

0:59.3

But I truly felt like, no lie,

1:01.8

I felt like God completely forgot about us.

1:04.3

Just never give up.

1:06.0

Just, even if you're holding on to the thread,

1:08.8

at the end of the thread, thread,

1:10.3

and you have to tie as many knots in the last thread to hold on hold on because you will get on the other side of it

1:17.0

dear young married couple you're in a busy season of your life you're probably working

1:24.2

and involved in ministry on top of that you might even be parents or students.

1:30.1

You're maxed, but you really want to stay connected in your marriage. And that's why we're bringing

1:35.6

this podcast to you. I'm Adam King. And I'm Carissa King, and we work with busy couples just like

1:41.0

you in our counseling office here in Sacramento, California. We also work with

1:44.8

couples all over the world through online counseling, and our couples are really just looking

1:48.9

for ways to communicate with each other more effectively. Some of them are looking to heal from a

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