MFP 206: Why Romance is Essential
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
"If you want to be a great parent, you need to be an amazing spouse" ~Mike and Alicia Hernon
Often romance is associated with shallow, fleeting feelings, but really, the romance that we share without spouses is a powerful example to our children of the exclusive intimate relationship that only spouses are to enjoy. A kiss in the kitchen or an embrace in front of your children is not only to make them say, "Dad! Mom! Ewww!" but it is to show them the way they are called to love. It is this intimate exclusive love that is the foundation of the family, and the best place for children to grow is within the shadow of the love of their parents. So it is essential that we continue to pursue our spouses and learn how to love them intimately. This is a task that should take our whole lives! And just to make it interesting (or difficult depending on your perspective!) men and women have different needs when it comes to intimacy and we need to be pursued in different ways.
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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. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello, messy families. Today, we're going to be talking about your marriage, |
| 0:28.9 | how to renew, refresh, revive, and set your marriage on fire, right? |
| 0:34.5 | Well, hey, I'm excited for our marriage. You sound really enthusiastic about this topic. |
| 0:38.5 | I want to pursue you. I want to pursue you. |
| 0:40.4 | I want to chase you. |
| 0:41.5 | Yet we always would say, Alicia's chasing the kids and I'm chasing Alicia. |
| 0:46.7 | And then I want the kids to be chasing Mike, basically. |
| 0:49.1 | So it's a big circle. |
| 0:50.9 | There's a big whirlwind. |
| 0:52.2 | Oh, my God. I came andwind. World. Oh my God. I can't even talk. |
| 0:55.1 | World win. Thank you. That in the house. |
| 0:57.9 | Yeah. So maybe a little less so because the teenagers are barely actually spinning off and doing |
| 1:02.8 | their own thing now. |
| 1:04.5 | Can barely keep up with them. Yeah, but we have grandchildren now who are definitely chasing |
| 1:08.4 | Papa. They love it. They love Papa. Yes. Come on, man. It's so good. |
| 1:13.8 | Every second. Don't say, come on, man, because that reminds me of Uncle Joe. |
| 1:18.4 | Yeah. Come on, man. Sorry. Getting little political here. We digress. So, this is the, this is, we're coming into the fall. So, so. A lot of our focus is on our kids, you know, during this time of year, I feel like. And this is why this is a great topic because we got to focus on. Because fall is back to school. Kids are packed up. Everyone put their, their first day of their kids pictures online, you know, |
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