MFP 174: Epic Intimacy with Damon & Melanie Owens
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Lovers do "for love" what never would be done for a reason, or a rule, or a doctrine or a law. True love "loves" and needs to suffer — not for suffering's sake alone, but for the sake of what we know is only gained on the other side of suffering: Joy. - Damon Owens
Damon and Melanie Owens have been serving couples throughout most of their 27 years of marriage and now they have launched their own marriage ministry called Joyfully Ever After. Damon has been the executive director of the Theology of the Body Institute and, with Melanie, they have trained over 20,000 couples in marriage, NFP and in the beauty of the Theology of the Body. In this interview we discuss some of the greatest needs they see in marriages today, what to do if your spouse is unwilling to work on the marriage, and how to increase intimacy in marriage. Like us, they offer practical tools for living Catholic life with authenticity and joy. Listen in as we dive into our conversation with this inspiring Catholic couple.
Damon and Melanie's ministry to marriage: https://www.joyfuleverafter.org/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the messy family podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family. |
| 0:10.8 | Hosted by our parents, Mike Hernan and Alicia Hornin. |
| 0:15.8 | They're pretty awesome, but they're not experts. |
| 0:18.6 | Because family life is really messy. |
| 0:24.2 | Well, happy advent to you, messy families. |
| 0:28.7 | Some houses may be more messy than others in normal time of year. |
| 0:33.5 | I know our dining room is full of craft supplies and boxes and wrapping and cookie making and all of that. It's like you have to get messy before |
| 0:43.1 | you get better. You know, like that's just just the way it is. It's part of our brand. Just |
| 0:47.9 | own it. Be it comfortable with it. I should take some pictures of our house right now and put |
| 0:51.4 | them out there and make everybody else feel better about their homes. Well, and we're also, you know, I don't know if anybody else does this, |
| 0:58.6 | you know, we're, we're having some parties, we're having some friends and we're having some |
| 1:02.3 | family in visiting. So this is a full time of year. So, funny thing, last, last weekend, |
| 1:09.6 | Mike and the kids all went to get a Christmas tree. |
| 1:14.0 | We attempted to get a Christmas tree. |
| 1:15.9 | Yes, exactly. |
| 1:17.3 | And the place that they go every year, there is literally no trees. |
| 1:20.6 | I mean, there were trees, but no. |
| 1:21.9 | It's not literally there were no trees. |
| 1:23.4 | There were no trees up to our standard. |
| 1:25.8 | They were all Charlie Brown Christmas trees. |
| 1:27.8 | Yes, they were. |
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