MFP 233: Getting on the Same Page
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
"Its better to be wrong together than right alone" - Mike and Alicia
There are many things that spouses need to navigate in life - finances, educational choices, work issues, in-laws - and for all of these issues there is an "X factor" that makes all the difference - UNITY. Without unity, even the most perfect of scenarios will not bring peace, but with unity there is nothing that life throws at a couple that they will not be able to handle. The question is, how do you forge that unity with each other when you have two different visions of what your family should look like? In this episode, we tackle this difficult question by encouraging couples to "push up"; to look at your life from the 50,000 foot level. Instead of starting with the details, start with the big picture. Those are the conversations that are most helpful. Listen in as we give couples some concrete questions to discuss with each other to build that unity that is absolutely essential to a flourishing marriage and family life.
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| 0:00.0 | Family, all in this together. |
| 0:08.2 | Family, we're taking a chance. |
| 0:10.8 | Family, like birds of a feather. |
| 0:13.3 | Family, you got my shoes and dance. |
| 0:15.4 | Hey, we are Mike and Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:17.4 | We have 10 kids and grandkids too, and we are here for every parent. Because we are on a |
| 0:22.2 | mission to empower moms and dads to embrace their sacred calling. So join the conversation. |
| 0:30.9 | Welcome to the neighborhood. Thank you for joining us today on another action-packed adventure. |
| 0:37.7 | Of the messy family project. That's project. This is the way we roll. |
| 0:42.3 | It is so, I always say it's so exciting. But I love, I love this work. I love the fact that we get to |
| 0:50.1 | talk about the most important things in the world, being a mom and a dad, being a husband and |
| 0:54.9 | wife. Yeah. There's no greater joy. And, you know, I think a lot of, especially in our early |
| 1:00.0 | episodes, a lot of what we talked about was born out of the things that we were dealing with and |
| 1:05.2 | things that we were wrestling with, you know, with our own kids. And we kind of continue to do that, |
| 1:10.6 | really, is to kind of keep to do that, really, is kind of keep |
| 1:12.0 | talking about the relevant issues that are, that we see not necessarily in our family, but |
| 1:18.1 | sometimes in our family, but also with just the people around us. So we, we relish and |
| 1:24.3 | enjoy both the emails and the interactions because it continues to remind us of, |
| 1:29.4 | yeah, these issues that we're, we're and are relevant to us. We want to keep it real, |
| 1:35.2 | keep it fresh. And we're trying not to be so, you know, theoretical that it's not practical |
| 1:40.6 | for you. So heavenly minded that we're no earthly good. Yeah. That we don't want to do that. |
| 1:46.2 | And so this is, this is, again, born out of some people's lived experience and this question and this |
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