Engaged Encounter

Congratulations! You made it to the tenth and final Engaged Encounter podcast. We hope you enjoyed writing and exchanging your Engagement Promises with each other after the last episode. This last podcast is about healing in marriage, and we will focus on showing how our awareness of ourselves and our sensitivity to each other has grown during this podcast series and your times of sharing together. Your relationship can bring healing into your daily lives, just as Jesus brought God’s love and healing into our world. May this last podcast bind you together in perfect harmony and let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts.

Hopefully episode six helped you be open to listening to each other about planning and finances so you could discuss prioritizing your budget as a couple. This seventh Engaged Encounter podcast is about coping with change. Many things change over the years and those changes can happen in many ways. It is important to learn how to deal with change and be able to communicate your feelings with your life-partner.

Building on the foundation of the first five podcasts, including the last podcast that reminded us how relationships with our family and friends will change as your wedding day approaches, the sixth episode deals with planning and finances as a couple. This important podcast helps you consider how you can work together to prioritize and decide what is important to both of you. You will need to use worksheet 6.3 during this podcast. If you haven’t already downloaded it, please take a moment to do so now. We encourage you to be open to each other’s thoughts and feelings on this topic and to listen carefully to this podcast.

After talking about faith in the fourth podcast, this episode helps you consider your relationship as a couple with family and friends. Family and friends are an important part of our relationship, and the couples hosting the podcast will share some of their experiences with you in this fifth episode. You will see how the focus shifts from my family and friends to our family and friends.

Hopefully the third episode showed you that Unity is the real goal of marriage. This fourth podcast will center on faith and our covenant with God.

In the second podcast, we learned about making the decision to love your spouse and how you sometimes need to make that decision every day. This third episode is about unity as a couple, striving for oneness in your relationship and how the desire for unity overcomes any of our own imperfections.

Communication and trust are vital to your relationship. This second episode talks about how you can always make the decision to love and how there are several different stages of love in any relationship. We hope you will listen closely to this podcast and come away knowing that you can choose to love your spouse, even if you don’t think they’re acting very lovable at the moment.

This is the first in a series of podcasts that are important to your engagement and future married life. Thousands of couples before you have attended these presentations in-person and found it to be beneficial. We hope you and your fiancé will be able to listen to each of these episodes and experience the same benefits. It’s best to listen to them in order, as each builds on what you learned in the episode before it. This first episode will introduce you to the two couples who will be sharing their stories in these podcasts. It also focuses on the beginning of your marriage journey together.