But let's talk about this even in the marriage. The more you have a healthy relationship with the Lord, the better we're going to be. The more I have a healthy relationship with the Lord, the better we're going to be because a good spouse is still a bad Jesus.

Howdy, folks, welcome back to the Real Marriage podcast this season. We are talking about relationships. We all have many different relationships in our lives and none

more important than our relationship with Christ and our spouse. But are there other relationships

in your life that are hurting your most important ones? That's what we're talking about today.

Lane number two is immediate family, not extended family.

And one of the big things that happens in relation to people are like, but we're family.

I'm the oldest of five kids.

My folks have got 20-some grandkids.

We are extended family is largely Catholic, which means, you know, we don't believe in birth

control. So there's a ton of us. And I mean, if everybody who's a relative is treated like

an immediate family member, it's completely overwhelming. I mean, you just can't keep up.

Right. Your family's smaller, so it's a little simpler, but I don't forget when I was a

kid, we just had a, just on my mom's side, we had a family reunion just from those who live nearby.

And I showed up, there was hundreds of people. Oh, my goodness. The O'Driscolls in County Cork,

Southern Ireland, where we're from, I think it's every other

year they have the O'Driscoll family reunion and thousands of people come in from all over the

world. And if they're all like, we're family. Right. Well, you still can't just go to my fridge

and get what you want. So there is a difference between extended family and immediate family

and different family members are in different lanes.

And unhealthy families don't allow that.

Right.

Family is one lane.

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