Asking For A Friend: Marriage Conflict & Intimacy, Holidays & Kids In Sports

Downtown Community Church

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Welcome to Asking For A Friend: A podcast where we answer your questions about marriage, dating, parenting and everything in between from a Christian perspective! We're William & Jul Colle. We've been married for almost 15 years, have 3 boys and juggle two careers as a pastor (William) and nurse (Jul,) while Jul is back in in school. We're passionate about having a Godly marriage and raising kids that grow up to love Jesus. We've learned from a lot of mistakes and have had some great examples over the years. Our prayer for this podcast is it encourages you, just like so many have encouraged us!
This Week:
1. In Sundays sermon, Ben spoke on conflict in marriage, and the common communication struggle of being heard or NOT heard by your spouse. My husband and I struggle with this, and often have unresolved conflict, but then he wants to be intimate and I am put off by not feeling heard and frankly dont want to have sex after an unresolved argument. How can we work through this?
2. We’re coming up on the holidays which is always a conflict point for me and my wife. How do you suggest we handle it?
3. We have multiple children and they are all involved in various sports and activities which often cut into family time, church time, etc. How do we let our kids be involved but also make our family and God the priority?
4. Should you make your kids go to church? Your teenagers to youth group?

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