Practical Oneness in Marriage: The Reality of Two Becoming One

Talk To Me: The Debra Fileta Podcast

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Religion & Spirituality, Default, Talk Radio, Christianity

4.8 • 808 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Oneness in marriage. What does it look like for two people to practically become one? When we talk about oneness in marriage, we often focus on the deep spiritual and physical connection of two becoming one. But what about the practical stuff? The house? The decorations? The furniture? The bed? The closet? We often forget that there’s actually sacrifice and selflessness involved in the practical, day-to-day aspects of becoming one that people overlook. Oneness in Marriage Today’s caller is wondering how to make her future husband feel at home as he prepares to move into her house due to a long distance relationship. He’s leaving his world and uprooting miles away to join hers – her home, her friends, her life, her things. Because of this, she’s calling to as a really important question: what does oneness looks like in a practical sense? Tune into Episode 27 of the LOVE + RELATIONSHIPS PODCAST by subscribing and clicking the links below. Want to be on the Love + Relationships Podcast? Go to truelovedates.com/loveandrelationships/ to submit your question and learn more. SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER or SPOTIFY Resources Mentioned on the Love + Relationships Podcast and Additional Show Notes: For another fun episode of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out the entire episode listing: LOVE + RELATIONSHIPS PODCAST BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates. She’s also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, friends, welcome back to the love and relationships podcast. I'm your host, Deborah Felita,
0:24.0	and I'm so glad you're tuning into these candid conversations about love, sex, dating,
0:29.2	singleness, and marriage. For those of you who don't know me or are tuning in for the first time,
0:33.7	I'm a licensed professional counselor and author specializing in relationship issues.
0:39.3	I also run the Relationship Advice blog True Love Dates.com, reaching millions of people with the
0:44.8	message that healthy people make healthy relationships. If you've tuned into the podcast before,
0:51.1	you know it's a hotline style show, meaning people call in or write in with
0:55.2	their relationship questions and I answer them on this show in short, practical, bite-sized
1:00.3	answers. If you have a question that you want me to answer on the show, send it via email or
1:05.8	voice memo to Deborah at true lovedates.com or check out my podcast page, truelovedates.com slash love and
1:13.2	relationships. And I'll do my best to get it answered on one of the episodes. So let's get
1:17.9	started. Today we have joining us Amy from Missouri. Hi, Amy. Hi. It's good to have you. Good to be here. So Amy, what do you have going on? Well, I am currently engaged. Yay. Yeah. I'm getting engaged this month. Wow. And my fiance is going to be moving into the house that I own and currently live in.
1:49.4	Okay.
1:50.6	Yeah.
1:51.7	So I'm just looking for some advice and tips on how to make him feel welcome as he moves in here to kind of make it feel like it's his home and not just like he's
2:02.0	a stranger living in my space. Yes, I love that. And I love that you're already thinking ahead
2:08.5	of what that's going to look like. Has he mentioned anything about that? How does he feel about
2:14.1	moving in? And does he have any apprehensions about kind of coming into your
2:19.3	domain? Yeah, I think he's pretty open to it. He moved to Missouri where I live from a different
2:26.8	state and left his family and just started a new job. So it's a lot of change for him all at once.
2:32.9	Yeah, so he is giving up a lot and changing a lot.
2:35.6	And you just want to be sensitive to that and make sure that this adjustment is as comfortable as it can be for him.
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