Saving Us

Sometimes reaching your goals and realizing your dreams can be much harder or take longer than you would like. How do you react when that happens? Do you push through, or give up?

Has busyness, responsibilities, work, kids or other things kept you from spending time with the one you love? Maybe you need to take a break from the grind and spend some unhindered time together. What do you do to take a break and getaway?

It's been a crazy year for all or us! As we near the end of 2020, what's on your mind?

How are you adjusting to 2020? What challenges are you facing and what is it that keeps you going?

If you are married, do you think you and your spouse have a purpose (other than to love each other :) ) for being together? Why or why not? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!

Blended families are both common and at times difficult to navigate. In this episode we talk to our youngest children by zoom to get their thoughts on growing up in a blended family.

How important to you is it that your spouse be your friend; what about "best friend?" Do you think you HAVE to be friends before you enter a serious relationship? Give us a like and let us know your thoughts in the comments!

Is there a difference in "courting" and "dating"? What does "dating" mean to you and how important is it? Let us know your thoughts on "courting" and or "dating."

In this episode, we discuss us preparing to be "empty nesters" and how that changes us. If you're an empty nester, or preparing to be on, please comment on your experience!

In this episode we are discussing finding the love of your life. Is there someone for everyone? Is that even a thing? Is there one specific person for you? And when you find someone, how do you know that this person is THE ONE? Or does it even matter?

We are discussing the positive and negative effects in-laws have on your marriage. When you get married, you marry a whole tribe, not just your spouse. When you have in-law problems, you have marriage problems.

Are there any advantages or disadvantages to getting married early in life or waiting until you're a little more established? Marriage is a decision you don't want to rush into. Ultimately, it depends on factors like your personality, your goals, your purpose in life, and even things like where you live and how you were raised. You'll have to make the final decision, but let's discuss some pros an...

In today’s episode, we are going to continue our discussion on Blended Families – Soups or Salads And specifically, how blended families affect the children. In our previous episode on blended families, we stated that stepfamily studies suggest about 60 to 70 percent of marriages involving children from a previous marriage fail. Since about 46% of marriages are what we consider to be nuclear famil...

Even though blended families are very common, there are still challenges that affect both the marriage and the children if there are any. They can be soups or salads. Are they soup where you can't really tell what's in it, but it still tastes good, or salads, where every thing is tossed together and you can still see all of the individual parts? Either way, they can be successful with a little wor...

Men and Women are different. How they approach relationships is different also. Understanding how your boyfriend/girlfriend, spouse, approaches your relationship may help you understand them. Most of us want to be understood. Someone once said that "Maturity is not when we start speaking big things, it's when we start understanding small things.

In this first episode of Saving Us, we're going to talk a little bit about who we are and why we're doing this podcast. We will discuss friendship in marriage and the thought of being empty-nesters.