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Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Nurturing Your Marriage :: Brent and Janis Sharpe [Ep 299]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Education

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Marriage can be really hard. You start out so in love and excited but over time the daily strain of work, home, and parenting makes it challenging to connect with your spouse. Add a global pandemic and the strain is just overwhelming.

My guests Brent and Janis Sharpe are both Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists who have been married for 42 years. They are passionate about helping couples have healthy and thriving marriages even in the hardest of times.

“Most marriages are dealing with malnutrition. They're feeding everything else in their life… all the demands of children, the demands of taking care of a house, the demands of their job. And by the end of the day, they're just spent and they don't have much energy to move back towards each other. So finding little ways that we can move back towards one another and care for each other is significant.”

We talk about healthy habits that we start right now to give our marriages a boost and they aren’t what you might expect. What is so encouraging about the tips they share is how simple and small these habits are and the big impact they can make.

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

0:11.3

I'm your host Heather McFadden, and this is the place where I'm going to walk alongside

0:15.6

you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

0:21.7

In this episode, number 299, I'm chatting with Brent and Janice Sharp, who are licensed,

0:29.1

Marriage and Family Therapist.

0:30.1

We're going to talk about nurturing your marriage.

0:34.2

I always tell people, if you want to guarantee your partner will not hear a word you said,

0:40.0

say a bunch of you words, that you frustrating when you do this and you didn't do this and

0:44.8

you never do this and so forth.

0:46.8

They'll get defensive, they'll stop listening, it never, ever works, it will turn into an

0:51.6

adversarial conversation.

0:53.8

But if we can learn to use language such as, you know, when this happened or I found

1:00.1

in the last few months during this pandemic that I see this happening in us, and I would

1:05.2

hope that we could maybe work on that.

1:07.7

Using eye statements and talking about the problem instead of the person can make all the

1:12.6

difference in the world because we do have to deal with issues conflict as inevitable

1:17.1

and marriages.

1:18.1

And that's just one simple strategy that can make all the difference in the world and

1:24.1

how your partner will hear you.

1:27.0

Brent and Janice point out that most marriages are suffering from malnutrition.

1:32.6

We know that we should put time and energy into our marriages.

1:37.0

We want to have solid marriages, but so often it's at the bottom of our list.

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