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

We've been married faithfully 31 years and in a series right now, 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. It's basically what to do and what not to do.

In addition to the sermons, you can find at real faith.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-E-A-V-E.

All right beauty of the Beast here.

Welcome back to the Real Marriage Podcast.

We're 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 enmeshed 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

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