MFP 362: Choosing to Be Wrong Together, Over Being Right Alone
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Your decisions may not always be perfect, but you can choose to make them together.
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Summary
In this week's podcast, we dive into one of the most important truths for married couples: you will never make a perfect decision—but you can choose unity. Today's culture urges us to optimize everything with hacks, experts, and AI, yet the real power in family life comes from spouses acting together. We share our own stories of big decisions—moves, career changes, even grad school—and how waiting for unity brought peace and strength to our home.
Join us as we unpack how to stay united: understanding each other's processing style, praying together, deferring in love, and avoiding the trap of needing to win. Your decisions may never be perfect—but they can always be made together. Tune in and strengthen the unity that makes your family thrive!
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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, get off 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 mission to |
| 0:22.6 | empower moms and dads to embrace their sacred calling. So join the conversation. |
| 0:27.7 | Welcome to the podcast. Thanks for joining us. Tis the season to listen to the messy family project. |
| 0:36.8 | That's right. This is great. And we, we're wrapping up the 10th year of our podcast. It's just so crazy. Yeah. Just thinking about like all of the different things that we've done and the things that we've said. And actually recently we went on to, we have our member site, the messy family neighborhood. |
| 0:54.7 | We went on there and asked people, what are the phrases? |
| 0:57.3 | What are the things that we say that you remember? |
| 1:00.2 | And people came up with things. |
| 1:01.7 | And I'm like, I almost like forgot that we said that sometimes. |
| 1:05.4 | But sometimes it's like things we do say when we go out and speak and do our courses that we're like, they're getting it. |
| 1:12.2 | They're getting it. It's one of those things when you find out the phrases that break through. |
| 1:18.9 | It's like, okay, this is something. Either we do it. We do everything we do is perfectly intentional. |
| 1:26.1 | But we may not always talk about it in the podcast. |
| 1:29.1 | And so we wanted to take some time. |
| 1:31.4 | And maybe we'll do this over a couple of other podcasts, |
| 1:33.4 | is unpack some of the key ideas. |
| 1:36.5 | Principles. |
| 1:37.1 | Instead of going into some topic, |
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