Ep: 110: The Marriage Reset™: How to Grow Old Without Growing Apart (Part 5 of 5)

Okay, okay, welcome back to part five of the Marriage Reset.

And listen, if you haven't heard part one to three yet, please push pause and pick up from wherever you left off or maybe you need to go right back to part one because this is the culmination of all four and it's going to be a powerful tying together of everything that we've learned together.

Today, we know that I know that a lot of you watching this right now Life is loud, especially if you're raising kids.

There are practices, school, homework, birthday parties, grocery, laundry, appointments, work, bills, family obligations.

Some days it feels like you and your wife are running a small corporation together.

And your children provide you with this enormous shared mission.

Keep those humans alive.

Feed them.

Teach them.

Drive them everywhere.

Help them become adults.

And for 20 some years, that mission can consume almost everything.

But here's what we forget.

That raising children is a season of your marriage.

It's not the entirety of your marriage.

One day, if everything goes according to plan, those children will leave.

And that's kind of the point.

Those little people who currently consume so much of your time eventually build lives of their own.

And when they do, they take a lot of noise with them.

And suddenly there's no practice.

Nobody needs a ride.

Nobody needs help with homework.

Nobody needs you to make their lunch.

And that exposes a question couples can spend decades avoiding.

Were we building a family together or were we also building us? Because there's a big difference, my friend.