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65: 7 Ways To Breathe Life Back Into Your Marriage with Karen Ehman

May 20, 2019

What if the marriage you’ve always wanted could be the one you already have? In Episode 65, Daniel and Christina interview Karen Ehman (speaker and New York Times bestselling author) about 7 ways to breathe life back into your marriage when your spouse is driving you crazy.

In This Episode, You Will Hear About:

  • 7 truths that will breathe life back into your marriage
  • Learn how to intentionally overlook the annoying habits of your mate
  • How to embrace your sandpaper spouse

Resources Mentioned During the Episode:

  • Keep Showing Up: How to Stay Crazy in Love When Your Spouse Drives You Crazy by Karen Ehman
  • Follow Karen Ehman on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
  • Check out Karen’s website

Quotables:

  • “Lose the attitude, keep the marriage.” – @Karen_Ehman
  • “The only thing we can control are our own thoughts, actions, reactions, and attitudes.” – @Karen_Ehman
  • “Learn to quit seeing different as wrong.” – @Karen_Ehman
  • “Specialize to maximize.” – @Karen_Ehman
  • “We divvy up our responsibilities based on our strengths and interests.” @Karen_Ehman
  • “Show love to your spouse for no other reason than just because they are your spouse.” @Karen_Ehman
  • “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.” – Will Ferrell
  • “Keep choosing your spouse daily by displaying love despite how you feel.” – @Karen_Ehman
  • “Love is not merely an attitude. It takes action as well. It takes tenacious work to make a marriage work.” – @Karen_Ehman

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Meet Karen Ehman:

a-message-from-karen Karen Ehman is a Proverbs 31 Ministries speaker and New York Times bestselling author. Described as profoundly practical, engagingly funny and downright real, her passion is to help women to live their priorities and love their lives as they serve God and others. Karen writes for Proverbs 31 Ministries First 5 team. First 5 is an app designed to help you spend the first five minutes of every day reading the Bible and connecting with God, and also interacting with other believers in the app’s community if you so desire. She has authored thirteen books including Listen, Love, Repeat:Other-centered Living in a Self-Centered World and the New York Times bestseller Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It and When to Say Nothing at All. She also just released a Bible study with LifeWay on the letter of Philippians called What Matters Most. Two of her books are written for moms and were coauthored with Ruth Schwenk of The Better Mom– Hoodwinked: Ten Myths Moms Believe and Why We All Need to Knock It Off and the newly released ECPA best-seller Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus. She is also on the planning and teaching team of Proverbs 31 She Speaks Conference and a teaching staff member of their writers’ training site COMPEL.
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