Leave and Cleave: Episode 870
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Changing family dynamics during engagement and beyond, plus a continued conversation on stress, and focusing on your own faith walk before dating.
Featured musical artist: All Sons & Daughters
Roundtable: Cutting the Apron Strings Before Marriage
The Old Testament book of Genesis describes how you’re supposed to leave your family of origin when you get married and “cleave” to your spouse. But how do you practically work through family dynamics? What do you do with clingy or controlling parents? How do you set habits, rhythms and traditions that define your new union? Our panel of marrieds shares ways they’ve learned to maintain a good relationship with their parents and in-laws while building and prioritizing their new life and relationships.
Culture: Stress Reduction (Part 2)
Stressors are all around us: bills to pay, work deadlines, sorting through friend and family dynamics, and news headlines galore. What effect is stress having on our brains and bodies, and how do we cope with the fallout? Licensed professional counselor Eliza Huie discusses how you can tackle stress and find peace through lifestyle, helpful practices, and active dependence on God. In part two of our discussion, she brings up the need to recognize your limitations and she walks through the acronym NEAR, a helpful primer for dealing with anxiety.
I’m Stressed: A Path from Pressure to Peace (Ask the Christian Counselor)
Inbox: He Ended a Relationship to Sort Out His Faith
Our listener would grade his faith walk as a D-. As a result, he broke off a dating relationship, concerned that he has to figure out his faith first. Was this the right thing to do? Lisa Anderson weighs in.
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| 0:00.0 | Friends, it is that time of year when people contact you and ask you to bless them as we are in the Christmas season and heading into a new year with a monetary gift. |
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| 1:01.0 | Well, hey everyone, welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. This is Lisa Anderson with you. We are squarely in October now. So happy whatever October to all of you. Those of you who are drinking pumpkin spice lattes, I will legitimize that at this point. I will never |
| 1:28.5 | legitimize candy corn, so don't even talk to me about it. But that said, more about the show and what |
| 1:34.0 | is coming up. Later, for our inbox, we have a listener who's upset over his own lack of spiritual |
| 1:39.8 | maturity, and he just ended a dating relationship because of it. Was this the right thing to do? I'm going to go |
| 1:46.3 | ahead and weigh in on that. And then for our culture segment, if you are feeling stressed, |
| 1:51.3 | you're going to want to stay tuned for our interview with Eliza Huey. She's a licensed |
| 1:55.4 | professional counselor. This is part two of our conversation and we're really going to delve |
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