Marriages Don’t Thrive on Monotony—A Taste of Couples Camp

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Monotony isn’t leading you anywhere. In marriage, you need excitement, variety, and fun to be at your best. There’s where Couples Camp comes in. It’s 48-hours of adventure together, and it just might be the most fun you’ve had in a long time. Brian answers listener submitted questions about Couples Camp, then shares a live talk from last year.

Claim your spot for this year’s Couples Camp, April 26-28, at couplescamp.us. Registration closes on Sunday, March 24.

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0:00.0	Like seriously, if you're married, you know, marriage is a really, really big deal.
0:04.1	It's a really tough deal.
0:06.2	It's like the world is stacked against you and there's just not a lot of resources out there.
0:11.6	If you're a reader, you can probably find some books.
0:13.7	If you know a good marriage counselor and you got the money, great.
0:17.2	Do that.
0:17.7	Do that.
0:18.0	It's awesome.
0:19.9	But if you were to say, how do I build my marriage?
0:23.1	Where do I go?
0:24.6	It's going to be crickets for the most part, except with couples camp.
0:55.5	Yeah. Welcome to the aggressive life. We're interrupting business as usual. Dirk, we have to stop saying that. You keep putting this in the script, interrupting business as usual. Today is a unique one that we say that so much. It's always unique, isn't it?
0:56.9	And we're interrupting business as usual because we don't have a lot of business usual.
1:00.1	So just sort of strike that from the standard opening model line.
1:03.5	You'll never hear it again.
1:04.8	All right. Good. Good, good, good.
1:07.7	I get typecast as a man guy a lot.
1:27.5	Maybe that's because I'm a man. Maybe that's because I've written some books on manhood. So I understand that. But the word aggressive is not a masculine word. It's a word that more men should be. It's not a masculine word.
1:28.7	The rest of life is not a man podcast.
1:30.7	So I think it relates to men just because I am a man.
1:35.0	And here's another thing.
1:36.8	Maybe I get identified as a man guru because I started man camp and I'm loving man camp.
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