Introvert's Holiday Survival Guide (And the Spouses Who Love Them)

Dear Young Married Couple

Adam & Karissa King

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

4.8 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

🎄🔋 Ever leave a holiday gathering feeling totally energized… while your spouse is completely wiped? Hear Adam and Karissa unpack why the holidays can feel magical for one spouse and exhausting for the other—and why introversion has nothing to do with being antisocial or unloving. They talk about social “battery life,” common myths that quietly fuel marital tension, and how couples can plan and protect each other’s energy without resentment. Are you accidentally misreading your spouse’s quiet as rejection? Do your expectations around family events need a reset this season? You’ll walk away with practical ways to navigate packed calendars, set loving limits, and actually enjoy December together - whether you’re an introvert, extrovert, or somewhere in between. Get counseling with Adam and/or Karissa HERE: https://www.dearyoungmarriedcouple.com/counseling Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dear young married couple.
0:02.8	Imagine we gave you an iPhone with 10% battery and told you to run GPS, stream music,
0:08.0	and make video calls for five hours straight.
0:10.7	You would think that we're kind of nuts because the phone would die in like 20 minutes.
0:16.3	Yep, but every December, millions of us try to do exactly that with our bodies and our brains.
0:21.8	And we try to run high energy social apps on a low energy battery.
0:27.3	Yeah.
0:27.6	And you can see this happening perfectly in the car ride home from a holiday party.
0:31.6	Picture this.
0:32.2	You're driving home and it was a good party.
0:34.6	And one spouse is buzzing, asking questions like, who'd you talk to?
0:39.3	It wasn't that fun?
0:40.5	And the other spouse is staring out the window, giving one word answers.
0:44.2	Yep.
0:45.9	Uh-huh.
0:46.7	Can you guess who is who?
0:49.2	You could judge it if you could see us right now.
0:52.1	My wife, my beautiful wife, is wearing antlers on this
0:57.9	podcast. It's a holiday headband. They're reindeer antlers. Yeah. So guess who the introvert is here?
1:06.7	But if you're the chatty spouse, you might think, you know, why are they mad? Did I do something wrong?
1:12.3	And if you're the quiet spouse, you aren't mad, but you're just empty and you've hit the wall.
1:17.6	So the first myth that we need to bust before we go any further is that it's something I want to teach you that changes everything.
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