The Reality of Marriage in COVID-19

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

“Can you be faithful with the small?”

-Dr. Dan Allender

As we enter a fall that is full of complexity, we’re going to be having conversations over the next few weeks on the topic of marriage. Before we dive in, however, we want to emphasize that this is a series for everyone—whether you are single, about to be married, just married, or have been married for a long time. Today, you’ll hear Dr. Dan Allender and his wife, Becky Allender, talk about the elements of disruption they have been experiencing in their own lives and marriage, what spending more time together exposes in their relationship, and what they continue to learn about one another during this season of deep change and growth.

Resources:

Purchase a bundle of our new marriage offerings, including our Marriage Conference, Marriage Online Course, and Date Nights for 15% off—only until October 10, 2020
Listen to a podcast episode with Dr. Steve Call, “Connection in Marriage During a Pandemic”
Listen to the “Love and Courage in a Global Pandemic” podcast series

Read the blog post “Dance with Me” by Robyn Whitaker

Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.7	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen.
0:10.5	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.7	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:43.9	The fall has begun. And as we enter into the complexity of this unique fall, fall with COVID-19, fall with a highly politicized process of an election.
0:49.4	It's going to be a very interesting end of the year.
1:00.7	And one of the places that these days have as great an effect on as any other, it's marriage.
1:07.7	And so we're going to be doing some work over the next, well, number of weeks on this category of marriage.
1:13.0	But before we get into it, I want to underscore that this is for everyone,
1:19.1	whether you're a single, whether you're a single parent, whether you are in the middle of about to be married, just married, been married for 40 or 50 years. The fact is, there's
1:26.5	someone in your life who is married and needs to have both wisdom and
1:34.0	engagement, especially in this era, to live well.
1:38.1	And I am privileged to be with my beloved wife.
1:45.9	So, Becky, as you and I begin this process thinking about marriage,
1:50.7	I'm just, I want you to begin by talking about what it has been like for five months,
2:00.5	pretty much for me to have never been gone.
2:06.3	I'll just say, I remember the day that we were in New Zealand over a decade ago,
2:12.4	when we had been together for 50 days in a row, 50 days without travel, without interruption.
2:20.4	And I said to you...
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