MP 054: Vulnerability in Marriage
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
"To love is to be vulnerable."
- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Many cry that marriage today is under attack, but the most powerful attack on marriage is often less like a bombardment and more like a silent cancer that creeps into our relationship with the person that we should feel totally safe with - our spouse. For our marriages to grow, we need to reveal ourselves to the other more and more, and this involves risk. For many men, the risk is looking weak. For women, the risk is getting hurt. But there really is no other option to vulnerability! In a marriage relationship, you are either growing or dying. We need to all learn how to honestly share our inmost thoughts and feelings with our spouse if our marriage is truly going to bring us life. In this podcast, we talk about what holds us back, why we should go forward, and what the fruit of vulnerability is in our marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting. This is Mike Hernan. |
| 0:06.3 | And I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:07.7 | And this is a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. Although we're not experts, |
| 0:13.2 | we're just trying to share some insights from the ups and downs of our marriage for the last 22 some odd years. |
| 0:19.5 | And we have 10 children and have a lot of fun |
| 0:24.8 | here actually doing this podcast. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's tough over the summer, of course, |
| 0:29.7 | because we have a lot of things going on. A lot of people going in different directions. |
| 0:35.9 | My sister moved into town and my son's girlfriend, who's an upperclassman in college, |
| 0:42.4 | is here for the summer. |
| 0:43.6 | So our house is usually very full of people. |
| 0:46.9 | My sister moved here with her three little kids. |
| 0:49.8 | So, I mean, we have little kids, but she has really little kids. |
| 0:53.4 | Well, you know, when you look at it and say our youngest is a four-year-old, for many people, that's like, oh, no big, that's like, you still have little kids. |
| 1:01.4 | Right. |
| 1:02.1 | But for us, it's like, hey, she's big. |
| 1:04.0 | She's a four-year-old. |
| 1:04.9 | She's a big kid. |
| 1:06.5 | And we added chickens to our life this past summer, too, which is very interesting. |
| 1:13.6 | And that's another reason why it's kind of eaten up some of our time. |
| 1:15.2 | We've had coyotes eat them. |
| 1:17.3 | Yeah, it was Wiley Coyote came. |
| 1:23.3 | Acme products do not work as they look like in the cartoons to keep Wiley Coyote away. |
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