#25 | Husband Q&A: Our Honest Views on Marriage, Money, Conflict & Roles

Thank you for being here! This week’s guest is officially my most requested guest EVER! My husband, Cruise 🤍 We asked you guys what you wanted to know and ended up chatting for an hour and a half of us talking about marriage, relationships, money, FIFO, family, roles within our marriage and pretty much everything in between. You guys see Cruise online, but you don’t often get to hear this side of him. He is genuinely one of the most grounded, hardworking and intentional people I know, and sitting down together like this brought out the best conversations. This episode isn’t us telling you how to have the perfect relationship, it’s just an honest conversation about what has worked for us, what we’ve had to learn along the way and what seven years together has taught us about choosing each other and continuing to grow together. We get into: - How we navigated five years of FIFO and why we actually think it helped our relationship in the beginning <!--THE END--> - How we divide responsibilities in our relationship without subscribing to strict “50/50” rules - Combining finances, having different incomes and finding a system that actually works for your relationship - Our approach to money, property and delaying gratification for the life we want later - The sacrifices behind building a life that might look very different from the outside - Why making big life decisions doesn’t have to feel so permanent and how we’ve approached moving, work and taking risks together - How our values changed after meeting each other and growing together - Why we don’t believe you need to have everything perfectly aligned from day one - Getting engaged young and why that level of commitment changed the way we approached hard seasons - Conflict, communication and learning to actually listen instead of immediately defending yourself - Why the repair after an argument matters more than never arguing in the first place - The conversations we think couples should have before marriage, especially around kids and what life looks like when things get hard - Maintaining independence in a relationship and why your partner doesn’t need to be your entire world - Making time for your own hobbies without making your partner feel like they come second - Being a united front - And of course sooo much more!!! I am very grateful to call this man my husband and very excited for you guys to get to know him a little better through this one 🤍 Go find Cruise over on IG & YouTube at @cruisetubegolf and @cruise\_pengilly on IG! Tag me in your stories (@christinapengilly) & share this with someone who needs it 💌 ⁠⁠📲 Instagram⁠ ⁠🤳🏼 Personal YouTube⁠ ⁠❤️ Talk Therapy YouTube⁠ Episodes drop weekly on Wednesdays. See you next week! xx