April 1, 2025 • 23 mins
After a nearly two-month hiatus, we're back to update you on our whirlwind of recent life events including house hunting heartbreaks, tornado cleanup, and busy sports seasons. Our unexpected break wasn't planned, but we've been amazed to see podcast downloads continue at record levels even during our absence.
• Spring sports season hit us hard with Monica coaching high school softball and our son starting baseball
• Put our house on the market and had our hearts broken during a complicated house hunting journey
• Made the difficult decision to walk away from what seemed like our perfect home due to major inspection issues
• Survived a scary tornado that hit just 2.5 miles from our home and participated in community cleanup
• Focused on our church small group ministry that's helping couples strengthen their marriages
• Thrilled to see our global audience growing with listeners from Amsterdam joining our top 10 locations
We'll be back with brand new weekly episodes starting April 8th! Submit your questions at themarriedafpodcast.com or through our social media channels. Please rate and review us on your podcast platform to help others find the show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I'm not going to say the magic words that you
hate so much, but the intentionis Essentially we're back.
Hey, you said it Essentially weare back.
We will be back next week.
This will come.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Here's a question for you is marriage overrated?
Why aren't people gettingmarried anymore?
A new pew research poll foundthat two and five young adults
think marriage is an outdatedtradition.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Marriage rates are at their lowest right now.
Is marriage really even worthit?
More than half of marriages endin divorce.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
If you get married, you have to be stuck with this
person for the rest of your life, right?
That's why you get married, sothat's why it's declining.
Why would you get married ifyou want to have just one
partner when you can havemultiple Marriage is stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Welcome to the Married AF Podcast, the
self-proclaimed greatestmarriage relationship podcast in
the world.
We're your hosts, matthew andMonica Powers.
Don't say it Not because, whew,the last few months have been
crazy.
We obviously have not been here.
It's been a while Stained style, so we've not recorded anything
(01:21):
in A month, nearly two months,two, almost two months.
Our last episode was the verybeginning of February.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
It's the end of.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
March.
Don't you know that?
The second week of February iswhen things really start get
moving in our lives, which istypically okay, but we added
some extra wrinkles the lastmonth and a half, almost two
months.
That has caused us to notrecord anything, because this
(01:48):
has not been the highest levelof priorities in our lives?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yes and no, it is.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
But you know we have a business and family and stuff
and church and sports havehappened and all of the other
million things.
It's baseball season, it'ssoftball season and marriage is
very much a high priority, andwe'll talk about that here in a
moment as to why this has kindof taken a backseat, so I'm not
(02:15):
going to say the magic wordsthat you hate so much, but the
intention is Essentially we'reback.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Hey, you said it Essentially we are back.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
We will be said it Essentially we are back.
We will be back next week.
This will come out on April 1st.
This is not an April Fool'sjoke.
I promise we are coming back.
So April 8th we'll get back toa weekly regular program, as
we've kind of been able to.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Weekly regular program.
What's wrong with?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
that we're a program.
We can be a program.
Is's wrong with that?
Because we're a program, we canbe a program.
Is that still a thing?
All of it is.
Yeah, absolutely it is.
I don't see why not, but someof the reasons as to why we
haven't been here I'm watchingmy program.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You sound like an 80 year old woman.
Leave me alone.
I'm watching my program.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
That's why I said program.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I'm watching my stories.
Bring on my metamucil, let mewatch my stories.
It's dinner time, it's fouro'clock already.
That's all I can think about.
Yes, so, but the reason why wehaven't been here?
Okay, baseball softball seasonhas started.
Yes, your softball season.
It's here.
You're like right in the centerof all of it yes, let's.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Let's for those that are new to us I don't play
softball anymore.
I coach the softball team.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Correct you coach high school softball here in
Alabama and spring sports,baseball, softball are very
popular sports.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
But they're our favorite sports.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
They're our favorite sports, but a lot gets into it.
So softball season started thatsecond week of February and
since then you've been running90 to nothing.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
At least three games a week.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Three games a week.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Tournament on the weekends Weekends that haven't
been postponed or canceled dueto weather.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Exactly.
It's been wild and crazy andour son Cash kicked off baseball
season.
He's playing in a new leaguewhich he is having Killing it.
He is having more fun playingbaseball.
I mean he's playing well, whichis great, and we love that, but
he is having more fun playingnow than he has in years.
You can see the smile on hisface how he interacts with his
teammates, the other teams.
(04:14):
I mean he's chalking it up andjust having a— he enjoys going
to play.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
He enjoys playing the game when it was becoming a
chore where we currently livecurrently currently, but so
that's taken up a lot of ourtime.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Um, speaking of currently living, this was
probably the biggest thing thathappened over the last two
months where it was like, okay,well, here we go, and a lot of
our extra time, extra intention,where normally we would be
recording and doing the podcastand recording videos, uh just
kind of had to take a back seatbecause we felt like, hey, this
is where we are supposed to go.
(04:53):
So in the last two months, wehave been prepping our house to
sell a lot of prepping we reallyfingers bleeding prepping we
really prepped a whole lot in avery short amount of time.
So we're looking at a house in aparticular area where we've
always wanted to be in aneighborhood that we looked at
(05:13):
our very first home ever in thisneighborhood, 16, 17 years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I think Maybe even before we got married.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Maybe even before that, and it's like this is
where we want to be.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And obviously.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
We haven't been there there, but the opportunity came
up.
Some of the closest people inour lives live in this
neighborhood, and all thosefamilies are like they didn't
live there then no, but now theydo they do, and now it's a
y'all come on come on to bethere even more yes, it makes us
want to be there more.
so we found a house in theneighborhood we really, really
liked.
It didn't turn out to be whatwe wanted it to.
We found another house that wewere going to settle for and it
(05:50):
was like, well, this is where wewant to be and the location
near the people we want to be.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We'll settle for this .
We'll settle for this.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So we went in and put an offer on this house that had
been on the market for months.
We're like, okay, it happy with.
And that afternoon we put theoffer in.
They come back to us and say,oh, we're pulling the house off
the market, we're moving backinto the house After being on
the market for months.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It was almost a year.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Maybe it was almost a year being on the market for so
long.
No, offers period no offers, no, nothing, and I was like, okay,
well, maybe this is the one theLord has set for us, and we
prayed over that and wesubmitted.
The offer came back and itlooked like the Lord just
slammed the door shut, it waslike, yeah, no, this, this isn't
the one for you.
So that night a new listingcomes up.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
We had, I mean just our hearts ripped from our chest
.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, so a brand new listing comes up, no other homes
for sale in the neighborhoodNope.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So a brand new listing comes up, because there
was no other homes for sale inthe neighborhood Nope.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
So a new listing comes up that night and it
checks basically every box onthe list especially for you how
it's painted, how it's designed,how it's laid out, the bright
size, everything about it.
It's like, okay, well, maybethis is the one.
So we go look at it the verynext day.
We were the first First peopleto go look at it the very next
(07:08):
day and we were the first, firstpeople to go look at it or a
viewing that they had, firstviewing they had on.
I think it was on a friday andI was like, wow, this checks all
, all the boxes.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I didn't even want to go in because we had been so
heartbroken and let down.
I didn't want to go in to seeif it was that perfect, because
I didn't want my heart to bebroken again.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
No.
So we went in, we looked at it.
It was like this is checkingall the boxes.
The yard was not perfect.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
All of our friends even came with this.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
But the house itself was like this is the one.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
And I know you walked around the house praying over
the house.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I was praying over it before I walked in it.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I walked throughout every room and was just like.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Lord, let this be you .
I didn't know you were doingthat and you didn't know I was.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Let this be you.
Make it clear that this is you.
Let it be easy.
Let it be smooth.
Let this be you.
So we go in, we make the offer.
We kind of come back and forthjust a little bit for a couple
of days, and I think it wasbasically like that Monday, our
offer is done, it's accepted,we're ready to go.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
The next day our house.
Is it coming soon?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Pending yeah, pending an inspection.
So our house is coming soon.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It was going to go live that Friday.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It was going to go live and so that was the time,
and we ultimately had two weeksduring coming soon to just not
like anything major had to bedone.
You know the house is in reallygood shape but some touch-up
paint, some fixing.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
you know this little ding in the wall here just kind
of touching things up.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Definitely lived in the house.
Yeah, definitely lived in, andso we were doing that, and that
was during the day you weredoing that.
Then you'd go do softball, I'dcome home from work, you'd come
home from softball, home fromsalt ball.
And we are also cash hadsurgery.
Cash, that, that's right.
Cash had had surgery.
We are painting, we are doingall the things till 11 o'clock
midnight every single night totry and get this place ready to
(08:53):
go, and we have the homeinspection On the house that we
put an offer on.
It was like the next week.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yes, our house was going live on the market that
Friday.
The inspection was theWednesday of that same week.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, Well, we had pushed it all the week because
the inspector was there and he'sphenomenal, he did this house.
He was great for us.
So we go through the inspectionand he's like man the house is
perfect.
He said everything about thehouse is perfect inspection and
he's like man.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
the house is perfect.
So everything about the houseis perfect, which was great.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
He said.
Here is the problem.
He said there's some drainagestuff, there's retaining walls.
He said they weren't doneproperly.
He said now they can be fixed.
That's not a problem, they caneasily be fixed, no big deal.
But it's got to be fixed and hebasically says he says, hey,
I'm not going to.
He said I would not recommendmoving until it's fixed or they
come down on the offertremendously to be able to move
(09:50):
into this house.
So we go back to the sellerswith the inspection copy, the
inspection, the pictures,everything.
And there are a couple oflittle small, minor things which
you're going to find on everyhome inspection.
No big deal.
They go yeah, we'll fix allthis stuff but not the walls we
don't want to touch the walls.
And not only that, but they dragtheir feet for five, six days
(10:11):
with no community.
Yeah, we'll have it back to youon this day nothing happens.
Yeah, we'll have it back to youby lunch nothing happens.
We'll have it to back to you bythe end of the night, but they
also kept saying why is yourhouse not active on the market?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Why is your house not active on the?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
market.
That's their only concern.
We're like well, we're notgoing live until we know this is
done and the contract isfinished.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
So they drug their feet.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
And ultimately, they would not get the walls fixed.
They would not come off theprice, and we had to and it.
They would not come off theprice and we had to, and it was
a tough decision.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I was like all right, well, I mean, this was the one,
this is going to be our foreverhome.
But when somebody says thatthis is not done the proper way,
this house will be off the hillin 10 to 15 years.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That's a red flag.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, it was a huge red flag and I mean we were very
$100,000 could possibly be thecost of fixing this.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Could and that was a high end, you know,
realistically we're probablythinking 50 to $60,000 to fix
that that's a massive chunk ofchange to come out of pocket.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, and that's something we weren't willing to
do?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
We don't have that.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
We were very conflicted about it.
Not sure you know what, god.
We thought this was the one, um, and of course we're like well,
what do we do?
Uh, we're talking about it,we're praying about it, you know
, talk, talk to one of ourpastors about it and he made it
plain as day and clear andsimple.
He said what's the prayer?
From the beginning, he saidwanting to make it smooth and
(11:33):
easy.
I said yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
He said well is this smooth and easy?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
has it been smooth and easy?
I said once no.
He said then you know thiswasn't from the Lord.
He said if you prayed that, andyou faithfully prayed that
prayer, he's going to make itabundantly clear, smooth and
easy.
He said this has not beensmooth, it has not been easy.
He said so, this is not fromhim.
(11:59):
He said now you can still gothrough with it.
He will still bless it.
He said but what the one otherthing you're doing is you are
keeping yourself from theblessing he has down the road.
He said are you willing to dothat?
And that pretty much made itclear like OK we're going to
wash our hands of it.
We're going to go through thatno problemo.
(12:19):
So we did all the work, we wentthrough all the steps, we got
our house prepared, ready tosell, and, man, it was stressful
and heartbreaking and it wasvery difficult.
A whole lot of emotion thatgoes along with that, and so
that's been a big chunk of ourtime.
We've looked at several otherhouses since and just none of
them screamed hey, this issupposed to be for you.
(12:40):
So we're still currently in themiddle of all of that.
We don't know what will happen.
We may be where we are now fora little longer Hopefully not
much longer.
We'll just have to see what theLord does.
So that was a whole lot ofother stuff that went on over
the last two months Spring breakjust happened.
(13:01):
Before that we had very, veryscary well actually, yeah, two
weeks ago we were all right hey,let's, let's record some stuff,
let's get prepared, record someepisodes we need to get back
back out there and sure enoughwe were actually going to do um
episodes before we went onspring break because you said,
(13:21):
oh, I'll have all the springbreak time to do all this blah
blah, whatever you do with them.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And why are you laughing?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Whatever you do with them, I don't know what you do
with them.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I don't.
You just said hey, they're upthere, Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Easy enough.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Right, but the day that we had we typically do
these on Sundays the day that wewere planning to do those
episodes.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
We're going to do them on a Saturday because we're
going to be here, let's do them.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
It got real scary here.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Got really scary.
We were in a high severeweather tornado high risk.
And sure enough, we had atornado come through two of them
, but one serious one comethrough where we currently live,
now about two and a half milesSouth of us.
I just messed up but did it.
You know, near the, near theintermediate school where our
(14:27):
daughter goes to school, nearthe high school, uh, where you
are a lot of the time.
Uh destroyed a lot of property,uh, through there.
So that was another very scaryday where we're glued to the tv,
we're watching james span.
For anyone who doesn't know whojames span is, he is the.
He is a legend in the state ofalabama.
He is the meteorologist.
He knows everything there is toknow about this state and
weather and patterns.
He is the man.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
There is zero better.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
None better than him, if you don't know, who he is.
Look him up.
He is the absolute best.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
S-P-A-N-N.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
We love Span's man.
We love, love, love James.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Span In Alabama.
It goes God nick saban jamesvan.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Those are your top three they're all very, very
close and they're pretty muchall tied for they're all very
close to each other.
You're totally right.
So yeah, that's saturday, wewere going to record, but no,
we're in in where?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
we are now down in the basement.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
We're in the basement , which is where we record
everything and we have the tvgoing.
We had we had a mattress in thefloor where our feet are right
now, where our daughter waslaying because it was going to
come through that evening andthat night it was almost an all
day event so we were planning tospend the night here, so
obviously we didn't it was overaround 11 pm ish we didn't
record that night because and wedidn't get to record the next
(15:34):
day because the softball teamwanted to help.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
There was so much damage and stuff that was done
and our girls were the first to.
What can we do?
What do people need?
which was amazing and it hit atrailer park that was really
close to where the intermediateschool is.
The same tornado hit theintermediate school, but it's
just demolished.
(15:58):
I mean we were there the nextmorning.
I mean you had already gone tochurch and me and the kids were
going to say, okay, well, westayed up really late, we're
just going to go.
This is the 1130.
And I was up, you had alreadygotten to church.
Yeah, you had texted me I said,I am really torn right now, not
like Natalie and Brulia torn,but creed torn, creed torn, and
(16:25):
I need to know if I have thisstrong urge.
I'm not serving at church today, but I need to serve, and where
I'm supposed to serve is, Ifeel like, is this cleanup?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah Well, you text me during the 9 am or like I'm
torn whether to come to churchor to go help with the cleanup.
And it was a pretty easydecision you can either go to
church or you can go be thechurch, and that's exactly what
you did.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
The kids and I went to be the church that day.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
You did and you helped.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I just was so proud of our children and for them to
be able to see people just cometogether that didn't know each
other, didn't know the peoplethat this happened to.
We're just pitching in helpingand they just jumped right in,
no questions asked If they weretold to do something.
(17:10):
They just they did it.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
And that's the way it is supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, we didn't get to record that day because
tornado cleanup.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Tornado cleanup and then last week spring break, we
were gone all week for springbreak to Orlando and back.
It was like, okay, we have torecord, because everyone who
listens and watches you havebeen faithfully listening.
The prayer has always been forthe Lord to take this to the
(17:39):
ears that need to hear it, evenwhen we're, you know, kind of
idle and not necessarily doinganything.
Uh, people are still listeningin record numbers more downloads
than we could ever even imagine.
So we're we're extremelythankful for that, but it's time
for us to get back on the horseand continue to be able to do
this.
I mean, just just give lastweek.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
What was last week's downloads?
I'm trying to get the Okay,it's pulling up.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
It was more than we could really imagine.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Well, for every week there was, it was maybe a couple
weeks after we hadn't doneanything, and the most off the
chart downloads came through wasover 7 000 yeah, for that week
for that week and I said okay,god, I'm listening, we will get
(18:33):
back to this uh podcast, Ipromise but each week it was
like 7,000, 4,000, 3,000, 5,000.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I think it was like 5,000 again last week.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Holy cow.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
And it's just, it continues to be more and more
and more.
So, needless to say, we'redoing it yet again and right now
, last seven days, 7,236.
So we thank you guys forcontinuing to listen, continuing
to be there and all that.
And the last thing that's kindof really kept us from all this,
because we're going to keepthis short and get back to what
you're really used to.
(19:03):
These people don't care nothingabout what we're doing this
next week.
No, they don't, but we'regiving a fresh update.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I've always been told share your personal stories.
I don't want to tell peopleabout me really taken.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
most of our attention has been married AF, not the
podcast, not YouTube, not socialmedia, but our small group.
This small group has been fun.
The small group has been amazingthat we do through our church,
cultivate church we we hadtalked about it and, um, just
decided, you know, it's, whilethis is great and it's a great
platform and we're thankful forit Uh, the personal time, uh,
(19:38):
getting to know each other, theone-on-one time with people and
with couples, and to see couplesinteract, has been awesome and
has been amazing.
Just pump the brakes on that.
It's been incredible to be ableto see.
So we've been all in on thesmall group and making sure
we're prepared for that andready for that and to be able to
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really enrich the lives ofcouples so they can get to know
themselves better, get to knoweach other better, get to know
other couples better and livethe marriage out the way that
God intended it from the verybeginning.
And we've seen amazing turnout.
We've seen amazing thingshappen from that.
We're seeing relationships kindof be rebuilt, being restored.
We're seeing relationshipsdevelop between the couples for
(20:20):
friendships and doing lifetogether, which is just amazing
to watch and amazing to see.
So that's where we've been.
You obviously saw something, sowe'll wrap up with that.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I am just so floored right now.
Okay, this is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,7, 8, 9, 10.
This is the top ten.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Go quickly.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I'll go from one to ten, just killing it.
Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
San Jose, okay, new York City, chicago, illinois,
miami, dallas, texas, seattle,washington, phoenix, arizona,
amsterdam.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Hey Holland.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
That's wild.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
What?
That's what blew my mind.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
It's usually the US that's blowing out everybody
else in downloads, but Amsterdamis number nine in the top 10
and who's 10 rounding it out inthe top 10 is atlanta, georgia
atlanta georgia.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Well, look at that so so cool thank you everybody.
Uh, watching, listening, um,listen where you said it.
I didn't say it first, you saidit.
We are back.
We'll be back april 8th, um,with april 8th, with new
episodes.
This will come out April 1st.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Oh, this is the first thing.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Brand new episodes April 8th.
It hasn't been for a lack ofpreparation.
There's several things I've gotdown that we just haven't had
the time to get to, and we'resorry for that.
But we'll be back very, very,very soon.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Thank you If you guys have any, I guess, ideas on
what we possibly need to talkabout.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I say ideas, questions, thoughts, we love it.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Go to the website.
Go to the website.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
The website's themarriedafpodcastcom.
You can submit questions onthere.
There's a form for you to beable to do that.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You can email us.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You can check out social media Instagram, facebook
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Speaker 2 (22:20):
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Speaker 1 (22:52):
God, we are thankful for what you're doing, we're
thankful for this platform,we're thankful for time to be
able to do what you have calledus to do, and we just want to
honor you in everything that wedo.
Our hope is that we can raisetopics and conversations for
people to know who you are andwhat you have in store from them
and God, just so people can getcloser to you.
At the end of the day, gettingcloser to their spouse, having a
healthy marriage is the way youcreated it and it brings them
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closer to you, and that's theonly thing that we want and we
thank you for.
So I'm not going to say the magic words that you
hate so much, but the intentionis Essentially we're back.
Hey, you said it Essentially weare back.
We will be back next week.
This will come.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Here's a question for you is marriage overrated?
Why aren't people gettingmarried anymore?
A new pew research poll foundthat two and five young adults
think marriage is an outdatedtradition.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Marriage rates are at their lowest right now.
Is marriage really even worthit?
More than half of marriages endin divorce.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
If you get married, you have to be stuck with this
person for the rest of your life, right?
That's why you get married, sothat's why it's declining.
Why would you get married ifyou want to have just one
partner when you can havemultiple Marriage is stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Welcome to the Married AF Podcast, the
self-proclaimed greatestmarriage relationship podcast in
the world.
We're your hosts, matthew andMonica Powers.
Don't say it Not because, whew,the last few months have been
crazy.
We obviously have not been here.
It's been a while Stained style, so we've not recorded anything
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in A month, nearly two months,two, almost two months.
Our last episode was the verybeginning of February.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
It's the end of.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
March.
Don't you know that?
The second week of February iswhen things really start get
moving in our lives, which istypically okay, but we added
some extra wrinkles the lastmonth and a half, almost two
months.
That has caused us to notrecord anything, because this
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has not been the highest levelof priorities in our lives?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yes and no, it is.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
But you know we have a business and family and stuff
and church and sports havehappened and all of the other
million things.
It's baseball season, it'ssoftball season and marriage is
very much a high priority, andwe'll talk about that here in a
moment as to why this has kindof taken a backseat, so I'm not
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going to say the magic wordsthat you hate so much, but the
intention is Essentially we'reback.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Hey, you said it Essentially we are back.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
We will be said it Essentially we are back.
We will be back next week.
This will come out on April 1st.
This is not an April Fool'sjoke.
I promise we are coming back.
So April 8th we'll get back toa weekly regular program, as
we've kind of been able to.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Weekly regular program.
What's wrong with?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
that we're a program.
We can be a program.
Is's wrong with that?
Because we're a program, we canbe a program.
Is that still a thing?
All of it is.
Yeah, absolutely it is.
I don't see why not, but someof the reasons as to why we
haven't been here I'm watchingmy program.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You sound like an 80 year old woman.
Leave me alone.
I'm watching my program.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
That's why I said program.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I'm watching my stories.
Bring on my metamucil, let mewatch my stories.
It's dinner time, it's fouro'clock already.
That's all I can think about.
Yes, so, but the reason why wehaven't been here?
Okay, baseball softball seasonhas started.
Yes, your softball season.
It's here.
You're like right in the centerof all of it yes, let's.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Let's for those that are new to us I don't play
softball anymore.
I coach the softball team.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Correct you coach high school softball here in
Alabama and spring sports,baseball, softball are very
popular sports.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
But they're our favorite sports.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
They're our favorite sports, but a lot gets into it.
So softball season started thatsecond week of February and
since then you've been running90 to nothing.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
At least three games a week.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Three games a week.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Tournament on the weekends Weekends that haven't
been postponed or canceled dueto weather.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Exactly.
It's been wild and crazy andour son Cash kicked off baseball
season.
He's playing in a new leaguewhich he is having Killing it.
He is having more fun playingbaseball.
I mean he's playing well, whichis great, and we love that, but
he is having more fun playingnow than he has in years.
You can see the smile on hisface how he interacts with his
teammates, the other teams.
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I mean he's chalking it up andjust having a— he enjoys going
to play.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
He enjoys playing the game when it was becoming a
chore where we currently livecurrently currently, but so
that's taken up a lot of ourtime.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Um, speaking of currently living, this was
probably the biggest thing thathappened over the last two
months where it was like, okay,well, here we go, and a lot of
our extra time, extra intention,where normally we would be
recording and doing the podcastand recording videos, uh just
kind of had to take a back seatbecause we felt like, hey, this
is where we are supposed to go.
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So in the last two months, wehave been prepping our house to
sell a lot of prepping we reallyfingers bleeding prepping we
really prepped a whole lot in avery short amount of time.
So we're looking at a house in aparticular area where we've
always wanted to be in aneighborhood that we looked at
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our very first home ever in thisneighborhood, 16, 17 years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I think Maybe even before we got married.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Maybe even before that, and it's like this is
where we want to be.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And obviously.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
We haven't been there there, but the opportunity came
up.
Some of the closest people inour lives live in this
neighborhood, and all thosefamilies are like they didn't
live there then no, but now theydo they do, and now it's a
y'all come on come on to bethere even more yes, it makes us
want to be there more.
so we found a house in theneighborhood we really, really
liked.
It didn't turn out to be whatwe wanted it to.
We found another house that wewere going to settle for and it
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was like, well, this is where wewant to be and the location
near the people we want to be.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We'll settle for this .
We'll settle for this.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So we went in and put an offer on this house that had
been on the market for months.
We're like, okay, it happy with.
And that afternoon we put theoffer in.
They come back to us and say,oh, we're pulling the house off
the market, we're moving backinto the house After being on
the market for months.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It was almost a year.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Maybe it was almost a year being on the market for so
long.
No, offers period no offers, no, nothing, and I was like, okay,
well, maybe this is the one theLord has set for us, and we
prayed over that and wesubmitted.
The offer came back and itlooked like the Lord just
slammed the door shut, it waslike, yeah, no, this, this isn't
the one for you.
So that night a new listingcomes up.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
We had, I mean just our hearts ripped from our chest
.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, so a brand new listing comes up, no other homes
for sale in the neighborhoodNope.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So a brand new listing comes up, because there
was no other homes for sale inthe neighborhood Nope.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
So a new listing comes up that night and it
checks basically every box onthe list especially for you how
it's painted, how it's designed,how it's laid out, the bright
size, everything about it.
It's like, okay, well, maybethis is the one.
So we go look at it the verynext day.
We were the first First peopleto go look at it the very next
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day and we were the first, firstpeople to go look at it or a
viewing that they had, firstviewing they had on.
I think it was on a friday andI was like, wow, this checks all
, all the boxes.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I didn't even want to go in because we had been so
heartbroken and let down.
I didn't want to go in to seeif it was that perfect, because
I didn't want my heart to bebroken again.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
No.
So we went in, we looked at it.
It was like this is checkingall the boxes.
The yard was not perfect.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
All of our friends even came with this.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
But the house itself was like this is the one.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
And I know you walked around the house praying over
the house.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I was praying over it before I walked in it.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I walked throughout every room and was just like.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Lord, let this be you .
I didn't know you were doingthat and you didn't know I was.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Let this be you.
Make it clear that this is you.
Let it be easy.
Let it be smooth.
Let this be you.
So we go in, we make the offer.
We kind of come back and forthjust a little bit for a couple
of days, and I think it wasbasically like that Monday, our
offer is done, it's accepted,we're ready to go.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
The next day our house.
Is it coming soon?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Pending yeah, pending an inspection.
So our house is coming soon.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It was going to go live that Friday.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It was going to go live and so that was the time,
and we ultimately had two weeksduring coming soon to just not
like anything major had to bedone.
You know the house is in reallygood shape but some touch-up
paint, some fixing.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
you know this little ding in the wall here just kind
of touching things up.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Definitely lived in the house.
Yeah, definitely lived in, andso we were doing that, and that
was during the day you weredoing that.
Then you'd go do softball, I'dcome home from work, you'd come
home from softball, home fromsalt ball.
And we are also cash hadsurgery.
Cash, that, that's right.
Cash had had surgery.
We are painting, we are doingall the things till 11 o'clock
midnight every single night totry and get this place ready to
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go, and we have the homeinspection On the house that we
put an offer on.
It was like the next week.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yes, our house was going live on the market that
Friday.
The inspection was theWednesday of that same week.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, Well, we had pushed it all the week because
the inspector was there and he'sphenomenal, he did this house.
He was great for us.
So we go through the inspectionand he's like man the house is
perfect.
He said everything about thehouse is perfect inspection and
he's like man.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
the house is perfect.
So everything about the houseis perfect, which was great.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
He said.
Here is the problem.
He said there's some drainagestuff, there's retaining walls.
He said they weren't doneproperly.
He said now they can be fixed.
That's not a problem, they caneasily be fixed, no big deal.
But it's got to be fixed and hebasically says he says, hey,
I'm not going to.
He said I would not recommendmoving until it's fixed or they
come down on the offertremendously to be able to move
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into this house.
So we go back to the sellerswith the inspection copy, the
inspection, the pictures,everything.
And there are a couple oflittle small, minor things which
you're going to find on everyhome inspection.
No big deal.
They go yeah, we'll fix allthis stuff but not the walls we
don't want to touch the walls.
And not only that, but they dragtheir feet for five, six days
(10:11):
with no community.
Yeah, we'll have it back to youon this day nothing happens.
Yeah, we'll have it back to youby lunch nothing happens.
We'll have it to back to you bythe end of the night, but they
also kept saying why is yourhouse not active on the market?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Why is your house not active on the?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
market.
That's their only concern.
We're like well, we're notgoing live until we know this is
done and the contract isfinished.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
So they drug their feet.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
And ultimately, they would not get the walls fixed.
They would not come off theprice, and we had to and it.
They would not come off theprice and we had to, and it was
a tough decision.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I was like all right, well, I mean, this was the one,
this is going to be our foreverhome.
But when somebody says thatthis is not done the proper way,
this house will be off the hillin 10 to 15 years.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That's a red flag.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, it was a huge red flag and I mean we were very
$100,000 could possibly be thecost of fixing this.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Could and that was a high end, you know,
realistically we're probablythinking 50 to $60,000 to fix
that that's a massive chunk ofchange to come out of pocket.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, and that's something we weren't willing to
do?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
We don't have that.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
We were very conflicted about it.
Not sure you know what, god.
We thought this was the one, um, and of course we're like well,
what do we do?
Uh, we're talking about it,we're praying about it, you know
, talk, talk to one of ourpastors about it and he made it
plain as day and clear andsimple.
He said what's the prayer?
From the beginning, he saidwanting to make it smooth and
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easy.
I said yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
He said well is this smooth and easy?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
has it been smooth and easy?
I said once no.
He said then you know thiswasn't from the Lord.
He said if you prayed that, andyou faithfully prayed that
prayer, he's going to make itabundantly clear, smooth and
easy.
He said this has not beensmooth, it has not been easy.
He said so, this is not fromhim.
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He said now you can still gothrough with it.
He will still bless it.
He said but what the one otherthing you're doing is you are
keeping yourself from theblessing he has down the road.
He said are you willing to dothat?
And that pretty much made itclear like OK we're going to
wash our hands of it.
We're going to go through thatno problemo.
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So we did all the work, we wentthrough all the steps, we got
our house prepared, ready tosell, and, man, it was stressful
and heartbreaking and it wasvery difficult.
A whole lot of emotion thatgoes along with that, and so
that's been a big chunk of ourtime.
We've looked at several otherhouses since and just none of
them screamed hey, this issupposed to be for you.
(12:40):
So we're still currently in themiddle of all of that.
We don't know what will happen.
We may be where we are now fora little longer Hopefully not
much longer.
We'll just have to see what theLord does.
So that was a whole lot ofother stuff that went on over
the last two months Spring breakjust happened.
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Before that we had very, veryscary well actually, yeah, two
weeks ago we were all right hey,let's, let's record some stuff,
let's get prepared, record someepisodes we need to get back
back out there and sure enoughwe were actually going to do um
episodes before we went onspring break because you said,
(13:21):
oh, I'll have all the springbreak time to do all this blah
blah, whatever you do with them.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And why are you laughing?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Whatever you do with them, I don't know what you do
with them.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I don't.
You just said hey, they're upthere, Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Easy enough.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Right, but the day that we had we typically do
these on Sundays the day that wewere planning to do those
episodes.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
We're going to do them on a Saturday because we're
going to be here, let's do them.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
It got real scary here.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Got really scary.
We were in a high severeweather tornado high risk.
And sure enough, we had atornado come through two of them
, but one serious one comethrough where we currently live,
now about two and a half milesSouth of us.
I just messed up but did it.
You know, near the, near theintermediate school where our
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daughter goes to school, nearthe high school, uh, where you
are a lot of the time.
Uh destroyed a lot of property,uh, through there.
So that was another very scaryday where we're glued to the tv,
we're watching james span.
For anyone who doesn't know whojames span is, he is the.
He is a legend in the state ofalabama.
He is the meteorologist.
He knows everything there is toknow about this state and
weather and patterns.
He is the man.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
There is zero better.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
None better than him, if you don't know, who he is.
Look him up.
He is the absolute best.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
S-P-A-N-N.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
We love Span's man.
We love, love, love James.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Span In Alabama.
It goes God nick saban jamesvan.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Those are your top three they're all very, very
close and they're pretty muchall tied for they're all very
close to each other.
You're totally right.
So yeah, that's saturday, wewere going to record, but no,
we're in in where?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
we are now down in the basement.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
We're in the basement , which is where we record
everything and we have the tvgoing.
We had we had a mattress in thefloor where our feet are right
now, where our daughter waslaying because it was going to
come through that evening andthat night it was almost an all
day event so we were planning tospend the night here, so
obviously we didn't it was overaround 11 pm ish we didn't
record that night because and wedidn't get to record the next
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day because the softball teamwanted to help.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
There was so much damage and stuff that was done
and our girls were the first to.
What can we do?
What do people need?
which was amazing and it hit atrailer park that was really
close to where the intermediateschool is.
The same tornado hit theintermediate school, but it's
just demolished.
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I mean we were there the nextmorning.
I mean you had already gone tochurch and me and the kids were
going to say, okay, well, westayed up really late, we're
just going to go.
This is the 1130.
And I was up, you had alreadygotten to church.
Yeah, you had texted me I said,I am really torn right now, not
like Natalie and Brulia torn,but creed torn, creed torn, and
(16:25):
I need to know if I have thisstrong urge.
I'm not serving at church today, but I need to serve, and where
I'm supposed to serve is, Ifeel like, is this cleanup?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah Well, you text me during the 9 am or like I'm
torn whether to come to churchor to go help with the cleanup.
And it was a pretty easydecision you can either go to
church or you can go be thechurch, and that's exactly what
you did.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
The kids and I went to be the church that day.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
You did and you helped.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I just was so proud of our children and for them to
be able to see people just cometogether that didn't know each
other, didn't know the peoplethat this happened to.
We're just pitching in helpingand they just jumped right in,
no questions asked If they weretold to do something.
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They just they did it.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
And that's the way it is supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, we didn't get to record that day because
tornado cleanup.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Tornado cleanup and then last week spring break, we
were gone all week for springbreak to Orlando and back.
It was like, okay, we have torecord, because everyone who
listens and watches you havebeen faithfully listening.
The prayer has always been forthe Lord to take this to the
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ears that need to hear it, evenwhen we're, you know, kind of
idle and not necessarily doinganything.
Uh, people are still listeningin record numbers more downloads
than we could ever even imagine.
So we're we're extremelythankful for that, but it's time
for us to get back on the horseand continue to be able to do
this.
I mean, just just give lastweek.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
What was last week's downloads?
I'm trying to get the Okay,it's pulling up.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
It was more than we could really imagine.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Well, for every week there was, it was maybe a couple
weeks after we hadn't doneanything, and the most off the
chart downloads came through wasover 7 000 yeah, for that week
for that week and I said okay,god, I'm listening, we will get
(18:33):
back to this uh podcast, Ipromise but each week it was
like 7,000, 4,000, 3,000, 5,000.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I think it was like 5,000 again last week.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Holy cow.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
And it's just, it continues to be more and more
and more.
So, needless to say, we'redoing it yet again and right now
, last seven days, 7,236.
So we thank you guys forcontinuing to listen, continuing
to be there and all that.
And the last thing that's kindof really kept us from all this,
because we're going to keepthis short and get back to what
you're really used to.
(19:03):
These people don't care nothingabout what we're doing this
next week.
No, they don't, but we'regiving a fresh update.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I've always been told share your personal stories.
I don't want to tell peopleabout me really taken.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
most of our attention has been married AF, not the
podcast, not YouTube, not socialmedia, but our small group.
This small group has been fun.
The small group has been amazingthat we do through our church,
cultivate church we we hadtalked about it and, um, just
decided, you know, it's, whilethis is great and it's a great
platform and we're thankful forit Uh, the personal time, uh,
(19:38):
getting to know each other, theone-on-one time with people and
with couples, and to see couplesinteract, has been awesome and
has been amazing.
Just pump the brakes on that.
It's been incredible to be ableto see.
So we've been all in on thesmall group and making sure
we're prepared for that andready for that and to be able to
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really enrich the lives ofcouples so they can get to know
themselves better, get to knoweach other better, get to know
other couples better and livethe marriage out the way that
God intended it from the verybeginning.
And we've seen amazing turnout.
We've seen amazing thingshappen from that.
We're seeing relationships kindof be rebuilt, being restored.
We're seeing relationshipsdevelop between the couples for
(20:20):
friendships and doing lifetogether, which is just amazing
to watch and amazing to see.
So that's where we've been.
You obviously saw something, sowe'll wrap up with that.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I am just so floored right now.
Okay, this is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,7, 8, 9, 10.
This is the top ten.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Go quickly.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I'll go from one to ten, just killing it.
Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
San Jose, okay, new York City, chicago, illinois,
miami, dallas, texas, seattle,washington, phoenix, arizona,
amsterdam.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Hey Holland.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
That's wild.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
What?
That's what blew my mind.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
It's usually the US that's blowing out everybody
else in downloads, but Amsterdamis number nine in the top 10
and who's 10 rounding it out inthe top 10 is atlanta, georgia
atlanta georgia.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Well, look at that so so cool thank you everybody.
Uh, watching, listening, um,listen where you said it.
I didn't say it first, you saidit.
We are back.
We'll be back april 8th, um,with april 8th, with new
episodes.
This will come out April 1st.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Oh, this is the first thing.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Brand new episodes April 8th.
It hasn't been for a lack ofpreparation.
There's several things I've gotdown that we just haven't had
the time to get to, and we'resorry for that.
But we'll be back very, very,very soon.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Thank you If you guys have any, I guess, ideas on
what we possibly need to talkabout.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I say ideas, questions, thoughts, we love it.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Go to the website.
Go to the website.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
The website's themarriedafpodcastcom.
You can submit questions onthere.
There's a form for you to beable to do that.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You can email us.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You can check out social media Instagram, facebook
.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Subscribe to the YouTube thing At the Married AF
podcast.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Go to YouTube, subscribe there also Rate and
review this on your podcastplatform, however you listen to
it.
You can do the same thing there, just to get in touch with us.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
We love hearing from everybody.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
We'd love to hear from you what's on your mind,
what's going on.
And hey, we're happy to have aconversation.
We're not perfect, we're notabsolute experts in everything,
but we can at least get aconversation going that's going
to help things down the road.
So we'll be back soon.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
All right.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Lord, we love you.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
God, we are thankful for what you're doing, we're
thankful for this platform,we're thankful for time to be
able to do what you have calledus to do, and we just want to
honor you in everything that wedo.
Our hope is that we can raisetopics and conversations for
people to know who you are andwhat you have in store from them
and God, just so people can getcloser to you.
At the end of the day, gettingcloser to their spouse, having a
healthy marriage is the way youcreated it and it brings them
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closer to you, and that's theonly thing that we want and we
thank you for.
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