Thanks For Being Here Leslie's Letter to Her Husband Ben
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Kelly Corrigan Show
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
In honor of 20 years together, Leslie Browning wrote this sweet tribute to her husband Ben. In her early years, Leslie got her idea of “romantic love” from what she saw in chick movies but after sharing two decades together and the juggling required with kids, jobs, financial pressures, competing demands, middle age, menopause and loss, she learned that although solid, steady, “real love” might not make that great of a movie - it sure makes for one hell of a life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to thanks for being here a short weekly pod to remind us of the many |
| 0:06.0 | essential and beautiful ways we affect one another. |
| 0:10.3 | Every Sunday I'll read a submission from a listener of Kelly Corrigan Wonders, could |
| 0:14.5 | be wedding vows or about mitzvah toast, a eulogy, or retirement speech. |
| 0:19.6 | We believe this is probably the loveliest way to tap into our better selves and remember |
| 0:25.0 | our highest values. |
| 0:26.8 | We encourage you to share this podcast each week with one person you love, maybe someone |
| 0:31.5 | you miss and need to bring closer, someone you want to feel your appreciation or admiration |
| 0:37.1 | or both. |
| 0:39.1 | This is thanks for being here. |
| 0:46.8 | This week's thanks for being here is from a listener named Leslie Browning. |
| 0:50.5 | Dear Kelly, I've been in admire of you and your work since 2009 when my sister emailed |
| 0:55.7 | me your YouTube reading of Transcending. |
| 0:59.0 | I've read every book you've written and have been a devoted listener of this pod since |
| 1:02.6 | the beginning. |
| 1:03.6 | Last year, Mark, 20 years since I met my husband and I found myself reflecting a lot about |
| 1:08.7 | what it means to share two decades with the same person, not quite half our lives but |
| 1:13.3 | close. |
| 1:14.3 | Marriage can be hard. |
| 1:16.7 | Juggling kids, jobs, financial pressures, competing demands, middle age, menopause, loss. |
| 1:23.8 | I don't often lift my head and really take in all I've been blessed with, 20 years. |
| 1:28.8 | My God, how have we made it this far amid all life's chaos? |
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