MFP 357: Marriage Q&A: When It Feels Hard, How Do You Stay Connected?
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this honest Q&A episode, Mike and Alicia answer real questions from listeners about the struggles every couple faces – feeling distant, managing conflict, and staying united when life gets stressful. They talk about what to do when your marriage feels dry or disconnected, how to rebuild emotional intimacy, and how humility, forgiveness, and shared prayer can bring healing. With humor and wisdom from decades of marriage and mentoring, they offer hope for couples who want to grow together, not just stay together.
Couples Discussion Questions
What should I do when my spouse seems emotionally distant? How can we reconnect after a big argument? How do we stay close when life feels overwhelming? What if I'm the only one trying to fix our marriage?
Whether you're newly married or in the thick of family life, this episode will remind you: every marriage has hard seasons, but grace makes growth possible.
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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. |
| 0:28.2 | Family, we're taking a chance. |
| 0:32.1 | Welcome to the podcast. We are so glad you joined us. And if you can hear the laughter, we, um, we just have a, we just have fun when Katie's sweet. We love it. We love it. I'm like making myself weep here. But I think too much. Well, we've got some great conversation topics. it's always great to have Katie join us. |
| 0:55.3 | That's right. |
| 0:55.5 | But we travel around and we collect questions and we are out at events, |
| 1:01.6 | getting them as well as people who email us in. |
| 1:05.6 | And actually the questions this time that Katie that Katie has here, |
| 1:09.5 | there's a couple questions here that I'm like, I don't know if we've actually ever answered this. |
| 1:14.1 | Like in the 10 years of doing the podcast, I don't know if we talked about this directly. |
| 1:18.5 | So I think that these are going to be helpful. |
| 1:20.8 | So if you are intrigued, you're wondering, is this for me? |
| 1:24.9 | This show was designed specifically for our our listeners and we are we are in |
| 1:30.3 | November right and when this is being released and um we're in the midst of or or you know just beginning |
| 1:38.2 | if you will uh the the beginning of our fundraising appeal yeah and we exist we exist. We are able both through the podcast, |
| 1:47.0 | the courses, the retreats, the free resources, the mentoring, you know, all that we are able to do |
| 1:54.0 | is because of donors like you. This is a listener supportedsupported organization. We have some who are able to make |
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