Episode 6 Living With My Autistic Husband

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one. Yeah, yes, welcometo another episode of Married with Autism with
Profit is Brief Smith and pastor EricSmith. All right, and this is
episode six and tonight we are goingto be talking about life with my autistic
husband. So this is going tobe little juicy tonight, but also very
help helpful. Well I guess itwon't really be juicy, but be helpful

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exactly tonight. So welcome on,welcome all All right, y'all know how
we do. We're gonna start offin prayer and then we're gonna jump right
into tonight's topic. Ready, big, yes, all right, let's go
to God in prayer while the Godin the name of Jesus, we just
come to you right now. Wejust thank you God, thank you for
this moment once more, God ofletting our own selves down so we can

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glorify You and help others and theirmarriage journeys. God, So Father,
we just thank you for allowing usto be a blessing to the couples out
there, neurodiverse marriages and relationships andeven neurotypical marriages and relationships. So right
now, God, we just thankyou for allowing the light to be shut

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shed upon what it's like to youknow, live for to be living with
the autism and the challenges and theand the pluses that have come with the
God. So we just we decreaseso and allowing you to increase. God
Father, we just thank you,We glorify you. We set all of
our desires aside for this moment andforevermore, and we just let you take

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take the lead with everything as youhave done so far. God, we
love you, we honor you,and it's in your name we do pray.
Amen, Amen, Amen. So, like I said, tonight,
guys, there's gonna be talking alittle bit, continue talking about our story.
Yes, and so I guess kindof picking back where we left off

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with the emotional baggage. So tonightI kind of wanted to just talk about
some of the challenges that I've seen, but also like good things, like
good qualities, because I feel likea lot of times people to autism or
aspergers or that's like neurodiverse. Likethey get a lot of like the quote
unquote stereotypes, and I feel liketonight I kind of want to we want
to kind of break those because not, like I told y'all last week,

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not every body that's on the autisticspectrum has the exact same symptoms, Like
everybody is in their own person.They all have different symptoms and variations and
all that. So they know thatthere's like a group of symptoms that fit
these people with these disorders, butthat does not mean that they have every

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single one of the disorders. Andso, like I said, I feel
like a lot of times we labelpeople and oh yeah, like that's how
they're going to be, and dada da da, And it's so sad.
A lot of times, like Imeet people, I meet parents,
I mean aunties, I mean evenother people I've meant young children that have
autism. And the first thing theparents see, especially when they see me

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and my husband together, they're like, oh my gosh, I just love
this, like you're giving me hopethat my child can get married. And
I feel sad because you know,I guess a lot of people believe because
your child's disabled or they're neurodiverse,so whatever, like they can't get married,
but you can get married if bestyou're the diar. You just have

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to have a partner. That's thekey. You gotta have a partner.
You gotta have a spouse that's willingto work with them through their challenges and
it can be patient and that iskey. And me, I'm not gonna
lie in the beginning, y'all knowmy story. I told y'all emotional baggage
and trauma and abuse and and sothe Lord, I know he put me
in this relationship to sharpen me ironsharpers aren't and to teach me patients.

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And I have really been developing,especially that fruit of long suffering being in
this relationship with my husband. LikeI said, it's definitely a blessing.
Does it has the challenges? Ohyeah, I'm telling you. In the
beginning, I was like, Lord, I'm about to get I'm about to
get a divorce. Lord, whatyou're talking about? My husband just can't

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be my husband. But now it'slike every day I follow more and more
in love with my husband because Isee certain things in him and I'm like,
oh, I'm like thank you Lord, Like I really Now I'm like,
Lord, thank you for putting mewith him, you know what I
mean. The beginning, it wasn'tlike that, I'm not gonna lie like
lower man. But now I'm like, I'm like, I love my huts
man. Yeah, I love andso. But yeah, like I said,

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some challenges or like I see thisin like, so a lot of
the stereotypes that you hear about peoplewith autism is they don't have emotion.
They're very oh my god, Iguess in the sense they would consider them
like narcissists. They're like very intothemselves. And I mean that's kind of
like a trait that's kind of atrait of their disability, I mean of

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their autism. But not every singleperson has that trait. So once,
like I said, like, wecan't consider everybody in the group that way,
okay, or label them to lastshe was talking about earlier with not
being able to get married or evenhave jobs. That's another piece of the
puzzle that you know, we aspeople with autism have to navigate in this

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world, right right, and sosome challenges that that I that bothered me.
Talk about three challenges. The firstchallenge was definitely communication. The biggest
challenge for me was us not fullybeing able to comprehend, so him not
fully able to comprehend what I wassaying or doing because of course they don't

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understand social cues and stuff like that, so it was kind of hard for
him to get a lot of whatI was saying. He's like, are
you joking? Are you getting serious? And then then on my end it's
like, okay, are you serious? But you know what I mean?
So, like, we came fromtwo different and then on top of that,
so you were dealing with that thesocial key thing, and then on
top of that, we're dealing withtwo different backgrounds, right, and how

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we're raised, And so communication forme growing up was cursing, hollering,
screaming, name calling, belittling,you know what I mean, in the
household, not saying it was right. But that's just how I grew up,
And so I'm thinking that's okay.And then you get somebody who had
a healthy upbreaking and they know howto talk to each other and communicating the
life other way, and then it'slike and you put them to people in

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the household, people, y'all bothlooking at it y'ather like you're crazy not
saying that neither one, well,the one is bad, but I'm just
saying because you didn't understand like thatwas wrong because you grew up in a
way that like, oh, you'rethinking that's normal. You know what I'm
saying, because you saw what yousaw and he saw what he saw.
And thank God, though, wedecided to get therapy, and it was

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in therapy that helped to teach usabout communication and how to to how to
yeah, how to communicate with eachother, how to be vulnerable with each
other, how to be open,how to be honest, and we had
to do a lot of exercises rightwell, we had to turn each other
like right and put each other inthe eye and be vulnerable and tell each

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other how we're feeling and why we'refeeling that way and Whord's coming from.
And I'm telling you though, likewhen we started doing that, I'm telling
you us like God was starting tounlock levels and he was starting to do
levels of deliverance even in that hewas he was starting to do deliverance in
that because it was like, oh, you're not the bad guy here,

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I just have been conditioned and taughtwrong and because of my trauma, I'm
looking at this through a traumatized right, a traumatized wins I'm looking I'm not
looking at this correctly. So Godhad to reframe our thinking and reframe how
we saw things in order to youknow what I'm saying, to truly work
to work that out. But I'mglad that we went through that season.

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Like I said, we went throughthat for like a year and a half.
Almost a year was of counseling,Like and I'm talking about we were
going we went from weekly to buyweekly to mother, you know what I
mean. But we had to startoff like that. And I would suggest
any other couple out there, especiallylike because I'm in a lot of these
groups, you know, like youknow, autism and Asperger groups, especially

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with women, And that's all Ihear is like, oh man, he
doesn't doesn't care about me or myknees or he's this day out there,
and it's just like it's like,okay, but have you guys decided to
go to counseling. I mean,like I said, if he's like now
I'm not going to counseling, thenthere's nothing you can do. But if

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he's willing to go to counseling,but you have never asked him to go.
But you're sitting there saying you wantto get a divorced, you know
what I mean. It's like,why don't you try to work through it
first? Give them a chance?The mayor is a chance, right,
you know what I mean? Becauselike once again, it's like a lot
of people don't take time. Andfor me, because I knew my husband,
like going into my marriage, hetold me, and I know I

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get it because some people don't evenknow. Like some people are walking around
and they don't even know they gotautism or aspergers or they're new or diverse,
right, they just walking around clueless, you know what I mean.
And so that can be hard.And you're thinking that you're with somebody who's
like narcissistic and they have like thisvery selfish behavior and really it's just that's
a part of their condition. Butbecause they've never been diagnosed, and so

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you're with somebody and you're automatic assumingthis, you know what I mean.
That's why it can be good toget that counseling because especially from a person
that deals with autism or a counselorthat's already been training that, so they
can be like, hey, lookhe may want to go and check out
and actually get diagnosed and actually dothis testing for this, try to get
diagnosed for this. Or it couldbe her, you know, she need

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to go check this out to getdiagnosed, you know what I mean.
So I would say, don't giveup on the marriage right away. Definitely
try to work it out. Tryto go get that counseling, even work
on you. You get counseling foryourself. I had to look, we
had a independent him. We hadto do couples and individual counseling. And
there is nothing wrong with it.I know there's a lot of people out
there that is going to tell you, you know, all you need is

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God, and I'm not seeing that. Son, don't talk be going out
here and being like, well Bsaid we didn't need God. You do
need God. But like I telly'all all the time, some people's deliverance
comes instantly. They can I'm tellingyou, like God can heal them from
you know, crack, They neversmoke, They never go smoke again.
And then there's some people God hasto take through a process and they may

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have to go and they're part oftheir process. Maybe they have to go
through a rehab center and get counselingand so on, and deliverance, you
see what I'm saying, instead ofit's getting all deliverance, because he knows,
like if I deliver them, they'regonna die if I do it all
on one saying. You see whatI'm saying. And so I don't ever
want us to put God in abox. And I feel like we do
that oftentimes because we like, ooh, this is how it needs to be.

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But God knows each and every oneof us on an individual level.
So he knows what's gonna work forone person and what's not. And so
you know, same thing when itcomes to salvation. Just because such and
such as ripping and running the street. I mean, there's two people ripping
and running the street. One personGod may just need to send literally a
profit along their path to speak somethinginto them, and they go a whole

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different correct street. The other person, he like, Nah, you gotta
go down in the dump because yougot too much pride. And if I
send somebody allowing your path right now, you ain't gonna listen to them.
So you gotta go, you know, what I mean. God knows what
he's doing, and so that's whatI want to say with that. Amen.
But another thing in the beginning thatwhen it came to communication was to

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forget for this part. Right,I'm not gonna lie, And that still
gets to me sometimes, but itdoesn't get to me as bad as it
did in the beginning. I couldnot stand it. I'd be like,
Eric, I know I didn't toldyou that all the time, three or
four times, are like I said, Like, if I tell you about
like me, I'm good. Likeif I tell you three times, like
I'll tell you three times, I'mlike, okay. You know, maybe

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they ain't get it. You know, people comprehend and understand differently. I'm
okay, I'm gonna tell you again. I'm okay, I'll give you third
time. But after that third time, I'm looking at you like you fully
didn't comprehend what I said. Youdidn't comprehend nothing I said. You literally
just forgot everything I said. Andso but then as God had to show

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me, you know what I meanin the beginning was that look, yeah,
beginning I had to I had Ericto create a little remembrance book,
and in it he had to writedown things I would tell him to remember
so that he knew, like,Okay, this is what this is the

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type of stuff that bring on alife, so that I wouldn't have to
keep repeating because he would ask mecertain things. I'm like, I'm married
to you, you really don't youdon't know this about me. But then
it was like God started having meshift. And so now I start just
writing things out for him in detail, and I know that that helps.
That helps him out a lot,and that and that calms us down.
There's no friction in our marriage.There's no arguments, none of that,

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because I've literally just sat there andlike, you know what this is.
I know he needs stuff in detail. And another thing, you cannot overwhelm
people with autism because their mind willautomatically get fried. Like if they get
overloaded with too much stuff, it'slike a century overload thing. And if
they begin to shut down, theywill shut down and you be sent like

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am I talking to a wall?Like what's going on? I'm like,
it's something going on with you.And you can't get them out of it
until they're ready to come out.Like when they're ready to come out,
they'll be like Okay, I'm good, but it may take a day or
so and you'd be sitting there like, okay, it is not like for
you, you're sitting there like it'snot that serious. But for them,
it's the end. It's the endof the world. And so and Eric

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don't talk about his triggers next week, So y'all, will y'all hear about
that in episode seven? But breakthat down. Yes, people definitely talk
more about that. But like Isaid, you know, you just don't
want to overwhelm them, and soyou might be able to tell them one
or two, maybe even three things, but after that they might they can
be like, huh, listen,it's too much. So in order to

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not do that and overwhelm them,just write it down so they know,
like, oh, okay, Iknow what to do, step by step
by step by step. You seewhat I'm saying. It's just like,
you know, this is just sometips tonight to kind of help you to
learn how to better communicate, bettercommunicate. And then another thing is the
change factor. Right, Eric doesnot like change, and a lot of

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autistic people don't like change. Theydo not like and this is where the
long suffering and the patience has tocome in because it's gonna take a lot
of like Okay, it's like yougotta be like literally, you're gonna have
to like do baby steps. Andif you're a person like me, that's
kind of like listen, I'm it'slike it teaches you to slow down and
be like, Okay, I gottaI gotta walk this process out with you.

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And it can be drainful on yourend, Like I know it's been
draainful on mind because I'm like,I'm like, what in the world,
but Eric does not like changing churches, you know, like changing jobs,
you know, like moving, youdon't like changing habits. Look, you
just said these, and I'm beinghonest with you, like I be having
listening. Y'll know, I'm aprophet. I be having prophetic words and

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be like, listen, Lord,baby, the Lord said we got the
X, Y and Z earth lookinglike, huh, that ain't about to
happen. I ain't doing that,And I be doing like God just said,
like ooh, you know, Godjust said that. And I'll be
like and then I'll go back andbe like, Lord, don't charge it
to us, don't charge it tohis hard Lord, don't charge it to

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him, don't charge it to him. Forgive us. Lord, you know
what I mean. And so youknow I have to ask the Lord.
I have to pray and ask Godfor strategy. Okay, God, how
do I get him to understand whatyou were saying? Like? And so
either sometimes God may have me goin further detail for him, or have
somebody else break the things founding forhim in further detail. I know,

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especially if I can get a personof authority or expertise or somebody that he
trusts, he'll listen to them,especially if they can go into detail and
break things down for him. Likethat's when he'll be a little bit more
comfortable and there'd be a more willingnessto do certain things. But honestly,
to me, just praying and askingthe Lord to send labors along his path
or be like, okay, Lord, when when the time is right,

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we'll do X Y and or showme how to just if I can do
it by myself without him then showingme that, like certain things like like
recently Guy's been telling well, y'allshould know, Guy's been telling us to
prepare right, we need to bestocking back up. It's gonna be a
brutal winner. So me, Ijust been like, listen, I know
that's something that Eric don't want tohear. So you just take it upon
yourself and you go out there andget what you need to get, and

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then it's then you ain't got anargument. Look here looking at like what
are you talking about? Like weheard I've heard this message ten million times.
You know what I'm saying. You'regetting frustrated out y'all trying to play
it all. Okay, yeah withhim like that she does. But yeah,
like good things. So let's talkabout good things. Like I said,

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like my husband is very consistent,he's loyal, he is dependable.
I don't have to worry about Okay, my husband. I'm not saying that
he never would, but just becausehis character, like I ain't got to
worry about like, okay, beencheating on me, My husband gonna come
back home Like whatever he said hegonna do, he gonna do it.
Like he'd be like, baby,I'm about to get your car worked on,

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and next you know, my carget worked on. You know what
I mean? Like I don't haveto tell my husband give me some gas,
like he'd be like, oh,your car low I'm just gonna get
some gas and like that is appreciative. But that's the part of my love
language, acts of service. Ithink to like learning that about your partner
because you can still apply the fivelove languages. I know him, of
course, I feel like every man'shis physical touch, but you I mean,

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but he also needs words of affirmation, like he needs words or encouragement
and so just building up his selfesteem. And so sometimes I'll stroke his
ego. I will stroke his butyou know, but that helps him,
you know. And and this isso crazy because God had to show it.

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God told it to me like this, y'all. This is I'm talking
to the ladies. He said thereand said, and this is what the
Lord said. He said, forRihanna, if I want to be worshiped
and praised, and I like foryou to sit there and tell me how
marvelous I am and wonderful I amand magnificent. He said, man is
made in my image. So yourhusband needs see what I'm saying. That

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that was deep. Your husband needsthose words of affirmation. And so I
was like, oh wow, Ididn't see it like that Lord not saying
that we worshiped, don't worship yourhusband, your husband, and don't be
still on my tide of y'all.I'm working on that. But your husband's
not your God. But still heneeds those words of encouragement and affirmation.

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A lot of times I feel likewe break men down. But our job
is to build our men up.A wise woman what builds her house,
and the part of building her houseis building her husband. And a lot
of time and like, because whatare we we are to help me?
We are here to help our husbands. God came so that we can come
help them in the mission and sobut yeah, so you know, like

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I said, he's very consistent,very lovable. He is lovable, loyal,
very affectionate, very affectionate. Man, I didn't really, I mean
I had that growing up, butnot like to the extent of how my
husband is very affectionate. Like it'sso bad, y'all. I'll be sitting
there like, did this dude justwake me up to give me a kids?

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Like I'm still trying to sleep.He'd be like, bad baby you
And I'll be sitting like I ain'tgonna lie, y'all, be giving this
work. I'll be doing this,like give his look, that's his look.
Whenever he gets frustrated with me,I'll be giving it back to him
when I'm like but then I'll belike, no, don't do that to
him, because what if something happened. You know what I'm saying, Like
you want to always do that.So I'll be like, okay, babe,

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love you. You know what Imean. I'll straighten, I'll get
up, but for the first I'lltell y'all, for the first three seconds,
I'm like, I'm not doing that, and so yeah, but yeah,
you know what I mean. Andlike I said, are there times,
Dope, there's where I've had deathsin my family and Eric will look
at me like just numb, likeI ain't say nothing, and i'd be

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like, you know what I mean, But like they do say, you
know, they said that. Ithink that's the part where they talk about
none emotion, because, like Isaid, you're just seeing that he's a
very emotion He is an emotional guy. Eric cries more than me. But
I know that's that pastor anointing onhim. That's that's that shepherding, you
know, And it's okay for mento cry. I don't't say that,
but it's just you know, tosee my husband like very very passionate and

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compactive, like he has deep compassionfor people, always willing to help anybody
out, shut off his back.Very good, very good man. But
like I said, I have seenthat where it's like dang, no,
not you got nine emotions like mostpeople like but that's like a social cdu
like oh, somebody died, likeyou'd be like, oh, let me
comfort you. Like that. It'snot always automatic for him now after a

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while or like if we talk aboutit, then he'll do it. He'll
know to do it. But youknow what I'm saying, Like I said,
you want some, you lose some, you know, Like I said,
I don't. I don't expect himto be perfect, but he's perfect
for me, if that makes sense, just like I'm perfect for him because
God put us together. He knewthat we would, you know what I

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mean, like fill in the gapsfor each other exactly. And so,
like I said, that's been themost powerful thing. And like I said,
I really do adore and left myhusband his birthday it's coming up soon,
six days I counted. Yeah,he's excited for his own birthday too,

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and so but yeah, so that'spretty much that you guys, yeah
you want to say before we likeclosed out tonight and that Yeah, the
communication, it's been a big challengefor us, like especially at the beginning
of our marriage, as she justspoke about. And I think the thing
that was the hardest for me tounder stand was understanding her and why she

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did the things that she did,like early on. And this is coming
from somebody that said there was nothingwrong with me even when we were dating.
And then I know, I triedto fill in the gaps everywhere I
could, like some wrong me,something wrong with me, like why she
always liked this, She's always youknow, arguing over like something small or
something small like if food wrong orsomething so like flare up. But then

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it just and I just like howwe did our therapy and how that you
know, filled in the gaps ofour communication styles, because it really helped.
It really helped us to understand eachother more, and it helped us
to understand to respect each other moretoo, And like the respecting like respecting
each other as we know about thatscripture that says husband, love your wives,

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and whys of like respect your husband, you know, respecting like each
other that mutual respect goes a longway. And if it wasn't for us
learning and sitting down and having theit was hard doing those hard things that
we initially had to do, ninetimes out of ten, we wouldn't be
on this live talk, you know, sharing this stuff with us right now.
And I, you know, Iused to think something was always wrong

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with me, you know. TheLord like the scripture that And I'll share
this in a minute, and I'mgonna read in two versions. The Lord
just had to share this with me, and you know, tell me my
grace is sufficient for you. SoI'm just gonna go ahead and read it
in the message verse seven through nine. Okay, here we go. I'm
gonna read it seven through ten inthe Message Bible, second Corinthians, chapter

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twelve, seven through ten. Andthis is Paul speaking. And I can
really relate to this because this ismy journey. And it says because of
the extravagance of those revelations, andso I wouldn't get a big head.
I was given the gift of ahandicap to keep me in constant touch with
my limitations. Satan's angel did hisbest to get me down. What he

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did, What he in fact didwas pushed me to my knee, no
danger then of walking around high andmighty. At first, I didn't think
of it as a gift and begGod to remove it. Three times.
I did that, and then hetold me my grace is enough, it's
all you need. My strength comesinto you into its own in your weakness,

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and that that scripture really like setme free with them having a disability,
because I thought I wanted to,you know, it was the thorn
in my flesh other birds and sayno, remove the throne of my flesh.
As you know, the apostle Paulspoke it, and I wanted the
thorn of having aspergs autism being removed. You're like, yeah, I want
to be take this out like Iwant this removed so I can be like

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a quote unquote normal person and fitin. And then of course, as
I told on an early episode,I told about that you know, journey
to Heaven when you know Jesus tookme to heaven and he showed me how
it really would have been without youknow, the disability, and that just
what I just read it just tiesback into that story. How you know

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Paul had to you know, behumble, so he wouldn't be like a
person that would brag about he wasat the top. And I was like
that in that dream, I was, you know, thinking how mighty and
myself. I didn't respect my parentsat the time, and we were together,
but we weren't married, and Ididn't respect her. I was very
vow and terrible to her. Soit just goes to show you that I

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always like to bring scripture back toyou know, our our testimonies and our
like what we've been through and whatwe are going through, because it is
you know, through scripture and throughthe Word of God that that you know
constantly set you free. And I'mI'm just thankful that we've learned how to
not just communicate with each other,but like we learned how to respect each

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other more because at first we wentfrom of course everything was just one sided,
like you had to panda to oneside first to please this person and
please the other one. And thenGod, you know, just merged our
thoughts together. He's like, youknow what, this is a holy matrimony.
I do not want you to toseparate. And the Bible that says

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what God has put together, letno man separate. And like the just
the union that we have, notjust with our communication, but like with
everything that we do, even tothis podcast here. It's just I'm starting
to see the beauty of why whywe're doing this here and why we're married.
And I'm even understanding that why,Like we were fighting so hard to

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you know, first get married,and we were fighting so hard at the
beginning of our marriage. I justwanted to, you know, put that
out there, like it's it's beenan honor and a blessing to be with
this woman of God here and notnot just write me off when I felt
like I was written off in thepast, and allow me to see you

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know, through my own deliverance asmuch as I've seen her through her own
deliverance. You know, Jesus hecame to be the ultimate deliverer and whether
it's you know, our individual salesor like even through our marriage, he's
constantly doing that for us. AndI'm just thankful to God that he's renewing
us day and night and you know, staying at the center of our marriage

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because keeping him at the center muchFruit's gonna show man, he will Amen.
Well, that's the episode for tonight, guys. We're gonna go a
hand, and like we always do, close out this podcast. But I
pray that you guys have been gettingtons of information. We would love to

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hear your testimonies. If you haveany testimonies, feel free to email us
at Brie Smith Global at gmail dotcom and you would love to share them.
If you have any questions, Ifyou have any topics that you would
like to learn more about, definitelydefinitely do write us, right We would
love to cover those topics for youguys in the future. Amen. Well,

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all right, like I said,we're go go ahead and close out,
all right, So, Father God, thank you so much for allowing
us to come together today or tonight. God and Father God, we just
want to cover everyone that is watchingus and everyone that may be listening to
us, Father God, far andwive. Father God. We just pray
right now over everybody who desires tobe married. We pray over everyone who

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is currently married, and we prayright now God for everyone who is currently
engaged, Father God, and weeven pray for those individuals who may be
dating neurodivert or maybe in neurodiverse relationships, Father God, or dating neurodiverse people,
Father God, or people with autismor Asperger's God, Father God,
we pray that you help them throughnavigate those relationships. Father God, Father

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God, we pray that you developsuch a love and such a care and
even patience, that you help thepartner to develop patience along suffering God,
to be able to help their partnerand encourage their partner even during their worst
days, even during their worst times. God, and Father God, we
just pray that you strengthen marriages.We pray that you give them a purpose,

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Father God, reignite the fire backinto their marriages. Father God.
We even pray over their marriage bed, Father God, that the marriage bed
will not be the foul fall God, but they will find love and passion
and all that will be in themarriage Father God. So, Father God,
we just say thank you, andwe thank you for everyone who has

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been listening, everybody who has beensupporting us. And Father God, we
pray a special blessing over those tonight. And it's in Jesus name that we
pray. A man and a manall right God, Right, Well,
we will see you guys next week. Right bye bye. Thank you guys
for listening to another episode. Wewill love to hear from you regarding certain

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topics that you would like your dressedlife changed, your testimonies you would like
to share, or information on howyou can become against on the show.
Please email us at info at merritit with autism dot com. As always,
we love you all with the loveof Christ. Remember to keep Christ's
first in all that you do,including your marriage, and watch the Lord
begins to transform your life. Beblessed,