Episode 51- Strife and the Underlying Issues Causing It
A Beautiful Adventure Marriage
Show Notes : https://abeautifuladventuremarriage.com/strife-and-the-underlying-issues-causing-it/
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Episode 50- How to Transform a Bad Temper
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Episode 49- Proverbs: What is the Language of Your Marriage?
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Episode 48-Proverbs: Which Path Have You Chosen?
A Beautiful Adventure Marriage
In the Bible we find two paths, and everyone is on one or the other. The Path of Righteousness involves obedience and allegiance to God, with actions that show this loyalty. This path leads to life and blessings. The Path of Wickedness involves a life of sin, self-indulgence, and allegiance to the prince of the world, Satan. This path leads to destruction and curses. For more show notes check out our website: https://abeautifuladventuremarriage.com/proverbs-which-path-have-you-chosen/
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Episode 47- Proverbs: Creating a Home God can Bless
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Episode 46- Proverbs: The Importance of Scripture with Jeff and Sherri Friedlander
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God's Word is powerful. It has the ability to transform us from the inside out. When we allow this tranformation to happen it not only changes our lives but it changes our marriage as well. Join us for this episode as we sit down with Rabbi Jeff and Sherri Friendlander. We dive into Proverbs 3 and talk about how the Bible is "One Book, One Story" and the implications it has on our lives and marriages when read it and apply it to our lives as a couple. One Book One Story: You can connect the first ten verses of Proverbs back to the Torah and forward to the New Testament. The Bible truly...
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Episode 45- Introduction to Proverbs
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Being willing to learn and grow is the only way to guarantee your life and marriage will thrive. People are always changing as time goes by whether they realize it or not. No one stays the same. Since change is inevitable why not be intentional about changing in positive ways as a couple? We believe the whole Bible is our road map. God gave us His Word so we could learn, grow, and become more like His Son, Yeshua (Jesus in Hebrew). Through this transformation, we can live a life that honors Him and is a light to the world. Since becoming better is our goal, Proverbs is a...
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Episode 44- Resolving Circular Arguments
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In every marriage you will experience disagreements and arguments. However, when you find yourself having the same arguments often that’s a sign that there is an underlying issue(s). A circular argument in marriage is a repetitive pattern of conflict. In most cases both husband and wife are very emotional about whatever the issue is, because of this it is hard to find closure so the argument comes up often. There are a lot of moving parts that go into why circular arguments occur. The good news is you and your spouse can bring resolution to your particular argument. Read More:
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Episode 43-Reintroductions, Recaps, and Vision for the Future
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We took a pause at the end of 2024, so we felt like this would be a great time to reintroduce ourselves, talk about why we created A Beautiful Adventure Marriage in the first place, catch you up on what has been going on in our lives over the last few years, and cast some vision on where we are going with in the future. Read More At: Book Links: A Time to Advance by Chuck Pierce The Messianic Churching Arising by Robert Heidler
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Episode 42- 10 Ways to Have Better Sex Part 4
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On this episode we are wrapping up our conversation on the importance of sex in marriage. We have dove into this topic and have explored things you or your spouse could be doing to harm your sex life and ways you both can make it better. Let's look at two more tips before we go. Do Not Watch Porn Porn is extremely dangerous to a marriage. It will in no way unite you and your spouse. Porn will only cause division and other issues. For more information about the dangers of porn check out Mark Gungor. Create A Sex Bucket List Our last tip is to create a sex bucket list. Sit...
info_outlineThe Dangers of Comparison
Comparison is something we have all found ourselves doing from time to time, especially in a social media world. With just a few clicks you are bombarded with the absolute best of everyone’s seemingly perfect lives. We see “perfect” marriages, jobs, kids, spouses, and vacations, and it is easy to compare our lives to the lives of others and feel like we don’t add up in some way.
On this episode, we will break down the dangers of comparison and the problems it can bring to your marriage.
The Problems with Comparison
There are several problems with comparison let’s start with the fact that it is not an accurate measurement. I love what Dave Barringer has to say about it.
Comparison takes our deficiencies and measures them against someone else’s highlight reel.
~ Dave Barringer author of The Danger of Comparison in Marriage
There is no way you can accurately compare yourself to someone or someone’s marriage because you can not and will not ever see the whole picture of what is going on.
Another issue with comparison is it does not factor in our uniqueness. God created us and our spouses with special gifts and abilities… on purpose. He wants us to be original not a remix of someone else He made.
The Dangers of Comparison
God created each of us with a specific race to run. He gave us the gifts and abilities that we need to finish our race strong. The same is true with our spouses. When we come together as husband and wife we become one. We become the only couple just like us, and that is a beautiful thing.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us Hebrews 12:1
The danger comes because comparison does not travel alone. Comparison likes to bring his 3 friends to the party.
Discontentment
When we measure our “real” marriage against the picture-perfect marriage of others it is easy to believe that we fall short. We then start viewing everything about our marriage through the lens of discontentment.
Resentment
Once discontentment sets in resentment is soon to follow. We resent our spouses for not being like the perfect spouses we see all around us. We start making passive-aggressive comments, or straight-out blunt comments about how we wish they were like so and so.
Deception
Finally, if this discontentment and resentment are not taken care of people reach out to others. We start lying about who with are with or who we are talking to. Situations like this are how affairs and divorces happen.
In our next podcast, we are going to talk about ways to stop comparing ourselves and our marriages to others.
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