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Thank you. Hey, friends. Welcome back to Pardon the Mess. I'm your host, Courtney Defeo, and this is a really important episode. I think I say that every time. But prioritizing your marriage, let's get honest, guys, that is so hard. I know when the kids were little and I had seen many of sermons and read many of books about marriage and was like, girls, God is going to be first. I have a relationship with God. Then dad and then you, like you're a third. And they were like, yes, they totally got it. But then it's really hard to live that out with the

busyness of life. And I feel like you're always going in different directions and the demands

of raising kids. It can be really, really easy for your marriage to drift. And it really does

take work. And so this is one of those mentor episodes. And what that means is the first of every

month here on Part of the Mess all school year long,

I've been giving you a topic that I think is one of those like critical topics. It's like,

hey, if we do anything, right, let's talk about our identity with Christ. If we talk about anything,

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