Category: marriage relationship
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Podcast 1:12 Compromise – Know when to hold em, fold em and walk away.
Every marriage includes times when you are going to have to compromise. In a blended family, there are even more opportunities to practice your compromising skills. In this episode, we explore different kinds of compromise and how best to work through the hard decisions you have to make. Blended Family Compromises Small things Whose pots…
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Podcast 1:9 – Depression and Anxiety
We thought the topic of depression and anxiety was important to cover because Paige suffers from clinical depression and Darren has suffered from situational depression in the past. In this episode, we talk about tools to help your spouse through their depression, how to identify the difference between the situational and clinical depression, and how…
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Podcast 1:8 – Transparency in your marriage
Play Episode Transparency in marriage is a hot topic in social media right now. The constant pull between personal privacy and sharing everything with your spouse has several couples at odds and is lighting up the blended family social groups. In this episode, we discuss how we tackle this hard issue. Start with a mutual…
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Podcast 1:7 – Being part of a Bigger Extended Family (Blending into your spouse’s family)
The Three Amigos 2012 It can be really difficult blending families, imagine what is like to blend with 10 siblings. Blending includes not just your kids it includes your siblings and parents as well. In this episode, we look at the pitfalls and the success of joining a big family that already has a history…
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Podcast 1:6 – “The Horrible First Year”
Engagement Picture The first year of blending families can be pretty difficult, downright horrible. In this episode, we talk about the challenges of throwing two families together and how we dealt with the obstacles we ran into. Listen to this Episode Your browser does not support the audio element. Love does not conquer all For…