Love Your Marriage: Podcast for Catholic Married Couples

It's almost Christmas! This is the time to prepare to celebrate, to enter more fully into a beautiful life together with your spouse! Listen in to find out more! Join our free resource library platform here Catch our other podcast, A Word from Our Outpost, here:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out upcoming events here:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ouroutpost.org/events/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If...

Our spouse might not be the bester listener in the world...in fact, odds are very good they're not. So what can we do about that? Listen in to find out more! Catch our other podcast, A Word from Our Outpost, here:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out upcoming events here:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ouroutpost.org/events/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you're a Catholic husband, sign up for 45 minutes wit...

It's really easy to slip into parallel lives in marriage, and to keep passing each other by. Whether you're just coming out of the flush of the honeymoon phase, drowning in children, becoming empty-nesters, or figuring out retirement, finding out what to do when the two of you don't share interests is incredibly important! Catch our other podcast, A Word from Our Outpost, here:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://our...

Magnanimity, or greatness of soul, is the path to a great marriage. Listen in for three keys to a magnanimous marriage! Catch our other podcast, A Word from Our Outpost, here:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out upcoming events here:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ouroutpost.org/events/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you're a Catholic husband, sign up for 45 minutes with Joseph here:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bookme.name/ouro...

The holidays can be stressful enough without adding spouse vs. spouse conflicts. Here's an episode with a couple of helpful tools for navigating the holidays! Catch our other podcast, A Word from Our Outpost, here:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out upcoming events here:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ouroutpost.org/events/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you're a Catholic husband, sign up for 45 minutes with J...

As a follow-up to last week's episode, here's how Catholic wives can embrace their femininity! Catch our other podcast, A Word from Our Outpost, here:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out upcoming events here:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ouroutpost.org/events/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you're a Catholic husband, sign up for 45 minutes with Joseph here:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph⁠...

Rather than bewail the emasculating forces at work on husbands, in this episode, I offer several things for Catholic married men to do to reclaim a healthy sense of masculinity. This episode is for any man who would like to be more competent and confident at running a beautiful, evangelical home (and for the women married to such men). Catch our other podcast, A Word from Our Outpost, here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠h...

Marriage only really makes sense when both spouses enter it believing that life is worth living, sharing, and multiplying. If any one of those points are lost, marriage becomes a whole lot less sensical... Catch our other podcast, A Word from Our Outpost, here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out upcoming events here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ouroutpost.org/events/⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you're a Catholic husba...

There's a bit of common wisdom that your spouse should be your best friend, so it's worth taking a few minutes and asking what kind of friend we are to each other! Catch our other podcast, A Word from Our Outpost, here: ⁠⁠https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/⁠⁠ Check out upcoming events here: ⁠⁠https://ouroutpost.org/events/⁠⁠ If you're a Catholic husband, sign up for 45 minutes with Joseph here: ⁠⁠htt...

Chesterton famously wrote, "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair." It's a great quote-- and Joseph twists it up a bit for this episode. Rather than hoping things just get better, or hoping that improvements will happen by way of unthinking passion, maybe we should spend a little more time and energy thinking about our marriages and what we can do to better them! Catch ou...

Ever feel like marriage is a bit like a see-saw-- one spouse has to descend for the other to ascend? One spouse has to do worse for another to do better? One person's slice of pie has to be smaller for the other's to be larger? (Granted, that last one is true for literal pies...) It's a weird idea, and horribly destructive, and yet...sometimes, even Joseph thinks that way. And we don't have to. Li...

What if someone set your life to music? What songs would your marriage be set to? If you want to see what we have going on in the upcoming months, check it out here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/ We have a retreat for husbands on Nov. 2nd in Jackson, MI: https://youroutpost.stellarwebsystems.com/join?euuid=69ef3daf-7cda-11ef-9a03-16256db603cb And a retreat for wives on Nov. 9th in Jackson, MI: ht...

On the day we die, we pass through our particular judgment. If we're married, have we considered how important how we love our spouse is to who we become? Check out our website here: ouroutpost.org If you're a Catholic husband, Joseph would be pleased to chat with you! ⁠https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

What we say and how we say it makes the world we live in. Starting with how we dialogue with God, and moving on to how we talk to our spouse, our whole world is colored by our speech. If you're a Catholic husband, Joseph would be pleased to chat with you! ⁠https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

If you're worried about the state of the culture, remember that you are the culture. You and your spouse get to create a whole way of life, and get to share it with others, too. This episode is inspired by a talk by Anton Colella at a recent Catholic leadership summit that Joseph went to. If you're a Catholic husband, Joseph would be pleased to chat with you! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost...

For Catholics, the definition of marriage is a pretty set thing-- and that's freeing! It means that God's grace is operative to help us pursue the ends of marriage with our spouse! Traditionally, there are three ends of sacrament of matrimony-- conjugal fidelity, procreation/education of children, and the permanence of the sacrament. There's a minimalist approach to them, and a maximal...

Our culture isn't the most celebratory of cultures when it comes to the sacrament of matrimony. But the culture you two form in your home can be! For the Catholic husbands, find time to chat with Joseph here: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph Check out our website here: ouroutpost.org And please share, rate, and review!

If we find it hard to love our marriage, it helps to find other couples who love their marriages. No family is perfect (literally, no family is complete unto itself, it needs the larger community), so let's find the other couples who love their marriages and spend time with them. If you're a Catholic husband, I'd love to pick your brain for a bit! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minu...

Sometimes, I think we make our goals a little too small, a little too inward-focused. What if we worked to have marriages so good, that we couldn't help but overflow into the rest of the world around us? Check out our work at ouroutpost.org , and send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.org!

The phrase "helpmate" gets thrown around from time to time-- here's a little episode to figure out how best to help your spouse! Check us out at ouroutpost.org , and feel free to email us at hello@ouroutpost.org!

What kind of home have we made so far? And what kind of home do we want to have? If hospitality is a virtue, what would we like to change about our home to make it more hospitable? What kind of message do we want to send to our guests? These are discussions we can have with our spouse! Feel free to pass this episode on to them, too! Check out our website at ouroutpost.org , and feel free to contac...

A lot about marriage can be useful or pleasant, but marriages can't be built on usefulness or pleasure. Fortunately, there's a third way to be a friend! As always, check out our work at ⁠ouroutpost.org⁠ , and send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.org! If you know any Catholic singles, we'll be starting a 12-week program called "Save the Date" on July 10th-- find out more here:...

What makes spousal love different from other kinds of love? What are some of its characteristics that set it apart? Dietrich von Hildebrand addresses this question in a little book of his, called Man and Woman . Joseph talks about three of these characteristics, and what they mean for our marriages. As always, check out our work at ouroutpost.org , and send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.org! If...

It's easy to get complacent, to take each other a little for granted, or to plateau. If you want to try something that will shake you up and give you something to work on together, may we suggest learning something together? Let us know what you two try at hello@ouroutpost.org And check out our work at ouroutpost.org And please, rate, review, and share this episode!

The novelist/poet Wendell Berry observed that we are all the children of divorce. Both grim and accurate... So what do we do about it? Your marriage is not just the union of man and woman, but also an opportunity to restore and re-integrate things in the world that have been torn asunder! As always,  check out our work at  https://ouroutpost.org/ send us an email at  hello@ouroutpost.org and pleas...