When Old Wounds Get in the Way of a Happy Marriage (feat. Dr. Edward and Beth Sri) 

What a beautiful couple, they both exude joy and goodness. Oh wow I'm single but am going through a similar breaking down (again) and am on path to healing with therapy and spiritual direction.

Wow! What an amazing couple, so real, so vulnerable, so inspiring for all of us! Yes, we all have baggage & wounds! Thank you for sharing your dark valleys & your joys in discovery & healing to encourage us. Thank You Dearest Jesus…stay with us! We love You & need You!

hope more married couples be able to hear this

I love how raw you two are in your videos. Your down-to-earth paired with your Christ-centered marriage is so inspirational.

Thank you for your openness and vulnerability to help your listeners. God bless you and your family.

I experienced, sometimes, postpartum depression. It made getting back into not only a routine but a new routine overwhelming. Thank goodness it passed. You are a fabulous couple with a lovely family. I have seen the pictures! Thank you for sharing this information and what you experienced. Neither one of you are expected to be perfect! Dr.’s face when you were speaking about the pain and pressure you felt, looked like it was connected to a sad heart! Really, in the end, that’s all we really need is love and compassion along with the ability to be ourselves and share our woundedness. You are truly blessed to have each other because it seems like you truly do have that, Please make sure to also devote time for yourself to listen to quiet music, read a book, exercise, or do something for yourself! Eight children can certainly take all of your time but you must not forget, on occasion at least, to be able to feel less pressure and stress. God bless you!! Thank you for sharing!

Absolutely love this video. Thank you for your transparency and vulnerability! We are all walking wounded people in need of healing.

I am so sorry you went through that very difficult time. I loved your testimony of healing. So many mothers suffer from post partum depression.

Thank you for being so vulnerable and sharing your journey!

Yes to bone broth analogy! That really spoke to me lol Thank you both for your witness.

Wow thank you guys alot for this video!

Darn I could relate as if it were me but we don’t have insurance for a counselor. I guess I will keep praying and hope the mighty counselor will help.

That is a great analogy and makes total sense now looking back on 20 years.

So sweet. God bless you both, your marriage and your children.

Thank you two!

Thank you for sharing your life.

Its hard to find the right counsellor in your area.

Where does one get counseling like that. It is so hard to find and my second marriage ended in divorce because of the types of baggage experience by my wife from childhood trauma.

Wow... I thought it was only us! ❤

Those Whom GOD Hath Joined Together, Let No Man Put Asunder. Just shows the harm Parents separating & divorcing has on their Children. If two people Love each other & Marry with the Sacraments, love should grow deeper as Years go by.

This is a great account. And I am happy for them. But I have so much anxiety about letting go and trusting that everything will be ok. I feel like because I am broken, I need to get myself to a certain level of healing before I give myself and my life’s plan to Jesus. I know that sounds dumb. I could write the post to someone else saying “No”, but it’s how I feel. I am not good enough for that love.

Thanks! Still good a year later

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Bawling 😭

I seem to have a knack at drawing out the dross, or the bone soup junk, during courtship but what I've been failing at is creating and maintaining the trust that is needed with the woman for us to journey into that dross together with the Lord. Some say it's poking at wounds, like Edwards wife said, but to me it's an invitation and calling to much greater union with each other and the Lord. I don't mind having mine picked at, but I always caution my partner not to take offense at my tone and demeanor, because I get charged up when entering into my own junk with another. Doing so makes it hard for them to feel welcome there, so I'm working with the Lord to do that better. I've also found, with my unsuccessful courtships, that women don't like being told when they have an inappropriate emotional response to something. I get that, or at least my old fallen self does, but I don't understand why more of us don't appreciate having a partner who loves us enough to enter into our pain, wounds, and/or sins and tell us when we are blind to something (e.g. a sinful or wrong emotion). Anyway, these videos have been great and you guys are a true boon for us all. Please keep em coming and God bless! In Christ, Andrew

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I've never met a good therapist.. I prefer to talk with a priest.. They seem more caring and try to bring you to God. But therapists want $$ and just has you talk and only asks you"how that makes you feel" ..

You, as a couple, are so honest, so gentle, so comfortable and friendly together.... I just want to say thank you for offering these videos. I pray they will be a tool for Jesus to help my husband and I to heal from the memory of me getting so overwhelmed by our actual wedding that we didn't experience the martial act that night. We didn't go on a honeymoon. We didn't even go to the Ritz Carlton run he got for us locally that night. I just wanted to go home (yes, we lived together the year we were engaged before we got married.. we were both 40 years old and never married before) It is a deep hurt in my husband heart that has wounded our sex live and intimacy for 11 years now. Please pray for us if you are reading this. Thank you. God bless you. ✝️🙏🏻🤍🙂

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that's how married people usually defend the mess they had through marriage, " our marriage problems are opportunities to feel God and show the love of Jesus " hahaha it's funny isn't it?

that's how horrible and messy marriage is. hahaha