Real Talk with Deb and Will

We are on a short weekend away for our 33rd Wedding Anniversary. We thought that we would check in on Facebook, so we did!

The most important part of communication is not talking, it is listening. Active listening is a skill that you must learn if communication is going to be successful. Listening to hear what you spouse is really saying and feeling is more important than paying enough attention to form a retort to what they are saying. How are your active listening skills?

In somany ways we must be willing to asked the hard questions. One of those questions that must be answered is "Are you equally yoked?" Are both of you seeing eye to on the most important aspect of a relationship? Where are you both financially? Where are both of you in your faith life? Where are both you on your career paths? These are questions that youthful love will not be able to under wraps.

It is tough to work out everything beforehand but you hould bring up some topic Before you say I do. Today we hope to spark some conversation in your relationship BEFORE you go down the aisle.

Boy when you got married there was so much to do, and there was so much you didn't know. Everyone was happy to chime in with what you should do. Today we ask the question, what advice do you wish you had been given as newlyweds.

Happy Anniversary to us! Great day for great advice.

There are many ways to show love. The best way is staying around and being able and vibrant for you spouse.

Willie shares his personal and emotional struggles when Debbie is not at home. Willie is like most married men when their wives are out of town. They don't eat well, and sometimes not at all. Not because they can't cook, they just feel too "out of sorts" to eat. Willie sounds pretty pathetic but see of your husband is at least a little like Willie

This episode pushes hard against the current "child centered" culture. Deb and Will want to tell you that the condition of your marriage relationship come first right behind your relationship with God. Children are an important third in the family dynamic.

There is no way around it, sex is important in the marriage relationship. Sex is often an outward display of the condition of the internal temperature of the marriage, In this episode Deb and Will explore this often "touchy" subject.