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So you guys have been through some pretty intense valleys in your own marriage. So let's talk about that. So Amanda, talk about what you

went through a few years ago. Yeah. It was in 2013. And that season, kind of what life looked like

for us is we were obviously married, had three kids,

and I was pregnant with our fourth, and he was, it was kind of just normal life.

He was doing ministry.

I was doing weddings and was home with the three kids and had a healthy pregnancy.

Everything was, it seemed great.

And I had eight weeks more to go in my pregnancy.

And all of a sudden, my water broke at 32 weeks and was rushed to the hospital.

And to make a long story short, an ambulance had to come and take me from one hospital to another because there wasn't an interview.

And kind of what you see on a movie just immediately rushed out of the ambulance into the into the OR, the operating room

and then just cut open so fast baby comes out, baby's not crying trying to figure out everything.

And that was a dramatic kind of intense moment, really baby was healthy he was we named him

ashore baby number four and he was doing great and I was doing great and we thought you know this

kind of threw our plans off a little bit we thought we had eight weeks to go but um things are good

he's going to save the nicky for a little bit and I mean, overnight things just took a turn for the worst.

And so it was about a week later that I was, Colby couldn't find me.

I was gone for the whole day in lying about where I was.

And I was actually in the process of buying a house and two cars without him knowing because that's what

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