MFP 258: Seven Ways to Get More Out of Your Marriage
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
"The point is that neuroses don't have to ruin a marriage. If you can accommodate each other's "crazy" side and handle it with caring, affection, and respect, your marriage can thrive." ― John M. Gottman
Many people are good at functioning in their marriage, getting along, caring for kids, paying the bills… but are they really thriving? How can we get more out of the most important relationship we have - the one we have with our spouse? In this podcast, we look at the book, Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman, and explain how to use these ideas to make your marriage grow. Though the expression of these ideas are new to us, the truth contained in them is not. We have found that we have done many of these things in our marriage over the years! Listen in for some great relationship advice for anyone who wants to move from a marriage that is surviving to thriving.
Key Takeaways:
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Review 7 principles
Couple Discussion:
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How can we Honor each other
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Start a Gratitude challenge
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When is our Daily connection and weekly date night
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Do the Family Board Meeting
Transcript
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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, we got my shoes and dance. |
| 0:15.4 | Hey, we are Mike and Alicia Hernin. |
| 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. |
| 0:27.6 | It is a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Thank you for joining us. It is the messy family |
| 0:37.0 | podcast, if you didn't already get that in the musical intro here. You didn't know from clicking on the actual podcast. That's right. And no matter where you are today, we want you to know we're thinking of you. Yeah. Actually, you know, we've done a lot of traveling in the last kind of like started our fall travel. |
| 0:55.3 | Yes, full schedule. |
| 0:56.4 | And it is so wonderful to be meeting, to be out there and just like getting together with young families and just meeting beautiful families, beautiful hearts. |
| 1:04.6 | Couples, everybody's at a different place too. |
| 1:07.2 | Yes. |
| 1:07.5 | Some couples really struggling. |
| 1:08.9 | Some couples kind of ready to take it to the next level, |
| 1:12.4 | you know, and it's just all, we're all on this journey, really, you know. And so if we could just |
| 1:18.7 | make a personal, we've mentioned this before, but if we could just make a personal appeal to you, |
| 1:22.6 | if you were listening to this podcast, could you take a few minutes and fill out our annual survey? |
| 1:27.2 | This is, we do it once a year. |
| 1:29.0 | We just want to know, even the simple things of who you are, not necessarily even your name, |
| 1:33.8 | but like, oh, you're married, you've had this many kids or you've, you know, whatever. And we just |
| 1:37.6 | need a couple hundred more people to take it. That's all. That's all. And we will, we need to use this. We do use this for all of our planning for the year |
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