Introduction: The Problem We Can’t Work Out?

Today, I get to introduce myself to you and share my personal history of being a kid from a broken home, who was petrified of marriage. So petrified, at age thirteen, I decided I never wanted to marry. 
Later when God called me to marriage, I felt He’d called me to the most emotionally dangerous place I could think of. I knew He’d brought Stephen into my life. And we had similar history—we’re both sexual abuse survivors, we’re both from dysfunctional homes, we both loved God, and we both grappled with the effects of childhood trauma. But I had no idea all we were up against. 
From even before my mother left my father, I’ve wanted to know how marriage could actually work. After I married, that want became a need, to keep my own marriage together. I’ve been married almost thirty-eight years, and as recently as three years ago I thought our marriage was dead. I was no longer in love with my husband. 
But God.
I’m passionate about helping marriages. I hope and pray this podcast helps yours, as I share everything I’ve learned the hard way and everything I continue to learn, by God’s grace.

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