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Speaking of which, thank you again for being here with me.

Let's get started.

Welcome. Thanks for joining today.

I want to begin right here at the start and tell you exactly where we're going and how all of this came together.

This particular episode today is quite personal and ongoing for me real time,

but I kept thinking that maybe what I'm growing in is exactly the thing that you want to be growing in.

So we're going to talk about your relationship with God today.

We're going to talk about marriage, your relationship with family, and how to improve and invest in all those things.

So let me walk you through how all this came together real time.

Summer and I, my wife, we've been talking a lot lately about our marriage and the good times and things that we can work on.

If the good Lord wills it on November 29th of this year, we will have been married for 29 years. And I would say

it's been good. I would say it's been really good. And I think for the most part, she would agree.

But just like any married couple, we have our moments. We have moments where we feel disconnected,

where there's some tension that can lead to outburst, just like, I presume, everyone else. But almost always, it's the

same thing. In some way or capacity, she feels forgotten. She feels overlooked or marginalized.

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