Pastor Mark here, a special, special, special series of conversations with my wife, Grace.

We've been married faithfully 31 years.

And I'm in a series right now, leave and cleave on family systems and how to architect your immediate and extended family to bless your marriage and children for generations.

It's basically what to do and what not to do.

In addition to the sermons, you can find at realfaith.com slash cleave.

I've got a special four-part series with my wife Grace where we talk about this very practically

and share from our own marriage and experience.

And so I really hope you enjoy it.

And again, you can find all the content, including the workbook, along with the sermons,

real faith.com slash cleave, C-L-EA-A-V-E.

All right, Beauty and the Beast here.

Welcome back to the Real Marriage Podcasts for doing a series of episodes,

Leave and Cleave, based on Genesis 224 in the King James.

You leave your family, and they become your extended family,

so you can cleave, pursue, connect with your spouse to start your new family.

So here's kind of where we've covered so far.

Here's my bad penmanship again.

On the one side is in meshment and maybe you explain that while I write the next word.

Everything is still connected to your extended family even though you're newly married.

You have financial dependence or emotional dependence or spiritual dependence or there's just some strings attached still and you can't fully leave and cleave.

Then cut off, there's full independence. You've kind of just wiped the slate clean and you want

nothing more to do with them, which in the last

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