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Hi everybody. I'm Susie McIntyre Eaton for Jesus Listen, Stories of Prayer.

The second episode of our podcast with Dr. Allender and Dr. Steve Call is so amazing.

We're going to get deeper into how our methods of relating, our methods of

communicating may be influencing the awareness of our marriage. So stay tuned. We're going to go

into the studio and speak with Dr. Steve Call and Dr. Dan Allender about their new book,

The Deep Rooted Marriage.

We're here with Dr. Dan Allender and Dr. Steve Call.

It is so good to be with you guys again.

This is part two.

So if you did miss the first one, you need to go back

and get just a little bit more of a background on what we're talking about. You talk about the

intention to bless and moving into each other's stories or each other's trauma or each other's

trigger points or whatever it is that is alive right

then in holding the intention to bless. Can you say more about that?

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