Ep 1170 ｜ I Used to Be Pro-Choice — a Facebook Comment Changed My Mind ｜ Q&A
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How do you deal with a husband who is deconstructing his faith? What is my favorite part about being a mom? Why are conservatives always fighting each other? What are we even fighting about? I am answering all of this and more on today s episode of Relatable.
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How to deal with a husband who is deconstructing his faith.
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Why are conservatives always fighting each other?
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I am answering all of this and more on today's episode of Relatable.
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It's brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers.
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Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far.
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We're going to do something a little bit different today.
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If you have stuck around for any of my maternity leaves, you know that we do a lot of these
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when I'm on maternity leave because it's easy content.
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But I also like to just make sure that I am addressing the things that you guys are curious
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about when I can in kind of like a rapid fire way.
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Now, rapid fire might be I spend 20 minutes on one question, but typically I try to go
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They're just maybe too theologically deep for this kind of format.
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I don't ever want to riff on something that really requires a lot of biblical exegesis.
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I want to make sure I dedicate like a whole episode or segment to that.
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So if you don't hear your question here today, it's not because it wasn't good, but it might
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And this is a theological one, but I do have the verse on hand.
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A lot of people have asked me this question before.
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How do I deal with a husband who is deconstructing his faith?
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If you don't know what deconstruction is, that usually means that someone is dismantling
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They are starting to question their beliefs and they are taking it apart.
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Now, all Christians are called to ask questions because we are to love the Lord, our God with
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That is one thing that distinguishes Christianity from cults.
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The biggest thing being that Christianity is actually true, but cults shut down questions.
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They'll tell you to put questions on a shelf or hide them away or even tell you that you
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But Christianity encourages theological inquiry.
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We encourage apologetics, but we do believe because God is the source of truth that he created
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all things that our answers will be best found in scripture, in his revealed word, not somewhere
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A lot of people who say, who are deconstructing, they say that they are just asking questions.
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They're asking questions to enemies of the faith.
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Like they're asking questions to the atheists, to the skeptics, or they are looking for a justification
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And they are finding that in their non-believing friends, but they're finding conviction when
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And they're looking to ease that tension that they feel without repenting.
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That is a lot of times how deconstruction starts.
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And so it's not just about disentangling from false teachings that maybe you grew up with.
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Deconstruction typically results in destruction of the faith.
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And it is usually a person who has decided that they are progressive politically, that they no longer
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believe that homosexuality is wrong, or they no longer believe that there's only male and female,
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male, maybe because of their own struggles or because of someone in their life.
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And so that is often like that opens the floodgates for all kinds of heresy, for questioning the
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So that is very difficult if you are a believing wife and you are watching your husband not just go
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through a season of doubt, not just struggle, not just say, huh, that thing that I believed growing up,
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I don't think that's true because I'm reading this in scripture now, and that contradicts that.
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That's all well and good, normal part of sanctification.
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But you're watching your husband, the person that you are one fleshed with, maybe that you
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are raising kids with, the person who you thought you knew when you first got married.
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You probably got married because of that shared faith.
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Now they are questioning Christianity altogether.
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So I just want to like sympathize with you and say that I'm sorry that you are going through that.
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That is really tough, especially if you are parenting children with this person,
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Even if you have people who are very similar, who have the same shared faith foundation,
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it is even harder, sometimes maybe seemingly impossible with someone that you don't have
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the same set of biblical values with, who don't share that with you.
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What the Bible says about wives winning over their unbelieving husbands is something that
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is really tough for me, that would be really tough for me.
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Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husband, so that even if they do not obey the word,
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they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives.
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So you, in being faithful, in being gentle, in being kind, in being gracious, in being loving,
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in being long-suffering, in being charitable, you are showing an example of Christ to your
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unbelieving husband that God can use and has used many times to soften your husband's heart
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That does not mean that you cannot ever use words.
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It's just saying that husbands can be won over without you using words.
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Because the reality of male and female and husband and wife still exists.
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The reality of gender roles still exists, that you can't have two, you can't have two capitans.
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You got to have someone who is the head honcho, who is making the ultimate decision.
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That reality still exists, even if your husband is not a Christian, which is very, very difficult.
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Now, of course, you never follow your husband into sin.
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You never allow sin for yourself or your children, even if your husband says it.
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Don't use this verse to justify that kind of thing,
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because I do not want you putting yourself or your children in danger.
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We are simply talking about an unbelieving husband.
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Maybe he's not going to church with you anymore.
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Maybe he's acting in a way, talking in a way that is not Christ-like.
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Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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And he sees every part of you, has forgiven all of your sins, and cherishes you,
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even when you feel uncherished and betrayed by the person that you married.
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You are completely dependent upon the Lord to be your good character, to be your righteousness,
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You continue to raise your children in the Lord, and you do what you can to share the
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I also say, like, surround yourself with solid believers.
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Because, like women, we really don't like relational tension.
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Most women, not all, most women don't like confrontation.
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Because they can just, like, tell a guy, dude, that was not cool.
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And then they can give each other a hug and be fine.
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But, or they can punch each other and then be fine.
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Women, it's like layers and layers and layers and years of passive aggressiveness
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And even if they do, then they pretend like it didn't happen.
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Or they just, like, allow the friendship to grow apart.
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And so, like, women will tend to follow their husbands.
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If their husband says, yeah, I don't think this is true about Christianity anymore,
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then a woman hoping for just to ease that relational tension, to reconcile, and to follow
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her husband might be like, well, yeah, maybe he's right.
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And it can be very difficult to push against that.
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It can be very difficult to live in a worldview that your husband does not occupy anymore.
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And so, to be strong, to be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might, to put
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on the whole armor of God, you not only have to be in the word every day, you not only have
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to pray for your own strength, not just your husband's repentance, you also have to surround
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yourself with like-minded believers who are so strong, so unwavering, who are praying for
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Try to get around Christian couples with a strong Christian husband, but make sure you are
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If he ever gets to the point of belittling your discipleship of your kids or belittling
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your faith, you've got to stand so strong and be gracious, okay?
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What's something that you've changed your mind about?
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Well, I have told this story, and I tell this story quite a lot when I am speaking specifically
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to pregnancy centers, and I'm talking about the moment that we're in with abortion.
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But there was a comment that was left on one of my Facebook posts, maybe 2017, maybe even
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So I was giving my conservative political commentary online.
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I didn't have a podcast yet, so I was really just starting out.
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I just have known reflexively, and because I was raised in a Christian household, that abortion
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is wrong, that it's killing a human being, and that that is wrong.
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But I also knew that, you know, there were these rare exceptions that I thought needed
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And I posted something to that effect on Facebook.
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I guess maybe I just adopted the general Republican position that, yes, abortion is wrong, should
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be illegal, but there's rape, there's incest, there's fetal anomalies.
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And I thought that was a sophisticated, nuanced, but fully pro-life position.
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So in the comments of that Facebook post, I said something like that, I don't even remember.
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Someone commented, what's the difference in a baby that's conceived in rape and a baby
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And I don't remember if I changed my mind in that moment.
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That was a couple years or maybe a year or so before I got pregnant for the first time,
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and I think that really had a big effect on how I started thinking about abortion.
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But I realized, either in that moment or just over time, that I was thinking about abortion,
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even as someone who called myself staunchly pro-life, as an abstract issue, as a political
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issue and not from the perspective of the baby, and not really as murder.
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I was just thinking about it as, yeah, like a procedure that, of course, is wrong, but I
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wasn't thinking about it in the realistic, stark terms.
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And that humanity of that person that's being killed does not change based on the circumstances
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And so once I started thinking about abortion from the perspective of the baby, and I started
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asking the question every time someone brought up this exception, this tragic story, this
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And why should the circumstances surrounding someone's conception justify their killing?
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And why should the possibility of having a hard life and a difficult future justify killing
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And why should a diagnosis of special needs or some life-limiting anomaly justify killing
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And then I started thinking, well, if we used all of those things as justifications for killing
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someone outside of the womb, say two weeks old or two years old, that they have special
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needs, that they might be poor, that they have a hard life, that their parents don't
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want them, that they're smaller than someone else, that they're younger than someone else,
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that they're in a different location than someone else, that they're not as developed or smart
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Well, none of those seem like really good reasons to kill someone outside of the womb.
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You see a two-year-old that was conceived in rape or is a product of incest.
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And yet, simply because someone is younger and smaller in a different location inside
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the womb, we use those reasons to say, yeah, that's fine to abort them.
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So when people say that arguing on social media is useless, that it doesn't change any
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minds, that you should never do that, that could be mostly true.
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And I don't know who that commenter was, but I'm thankful for them.
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And you just never know how God is going to use your insistence upon speaking the truth
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And that person has no idea that they changed my mind.
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And you may have no idea that you changed someone else's mind.
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Maybe you talked to someone five years ago in Instagram messages and you told them the truth
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about the gospel, about abortion, or about something else, about immigration, whatever it is.
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But God used what you said to plant a seed or to push the ball down the field just a little
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We will not know how our words, how our actions, how our obedience in what we say has affected.
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We will not know how it has affected different people, all the people that our words have
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Then we will see this amazing tapestry, I think, of how all of our testimonies are so intertwined
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and how this one thing that we said that we didn't even think about or one thing we did
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that we don't even remember anymore, how God used that to push someone further to him.
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He doesn't need us, but he chooses to use us, our prayers, our obedience, our evangelism
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So I would say that you can, through God, change people's mind.
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And once you realize that the result is up to him, it takes a lot of pressure off of you
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to be perfect or have the perfect argument or have the perfect answer.
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That's a really good practical guide to changing people's mind.
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You are one tiny part of someone's testimony, one tiny part of someone's story, one small
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part of their trajectory, their path to changing their mind.
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You just have to push the ball further down the field by being faithful and truthful.
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I think that there is a way to do it that is honoring to God.
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I think that there are probably some apps and some websites.
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Do people even use websites for like online data anymore?
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But there are probably some tools that are better than others.
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I definitely know that Bumble and Tinder are run by progressive people.
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And I think it's tough out there to have your, to swipe against someone because you don't
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I'm not saying that's wrong necessarily or superficial.
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I think you should absolutely be physically attracted to the person that you are with.
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However, you find different people attractive when you meet them in person versus just seeing
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Because the confidence or the personality or the humor that a guy has for a girl can be
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extremely attractive and can take them from like a three to a seven real fast.
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I know people who are married because they met on a dating app.
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You have to check your own heart, making sure that you're not becoming, you know, really
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Make sure that you are representing yourself completely accurately, both in the pictures
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that you're posting and modestly, by the way, if you're a Christian, but, but also like
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I've seen so many people and I know this anecdotally of a friend's brother who did this.
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And I've now seen this talked about a lot online that guys, because women, young women
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tend to lean left, especially nowadays, that they are saying that they are moderate on dating
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apps, even though they're conservative, just to like try to talk to the girl.
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There are so many layers of sadness within that reality.
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The reality is, I think that the guy could probably change the girl eventually, but you
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Like I said, marriage is already work just because you're two sinners and life can be
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hard and you go through so many different changes and seasons.
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And if you're a Christian guy, you don't want to date a liberal girl.
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You don't, because that means she doesn't have the same theological views as you.
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And plus it's lying and lying to sin and you're starting your relationship based on sin.
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So anyway, I won't say it's always categorically wrong.
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I will just say that Christians dating online should look and sound and act different than
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Christians who are not, or people who are not Christians online dating.
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And also remember, just because you meet someone via an app does not mean that they
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Christians should never be ghosting people ever.
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Unless it's like you're fleeing some kind of stalker abusive situation and that's the
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Just because you lose interest or you decide you're not attracted to someone, you don't
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That's not treating someone like an image bearer of God.
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That's not treating someone with respect and dignity.
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And people that you meet on dating apps are just as valuable as people that you meet in
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person, people that you meet in church, and you need to treat them like that.
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That takes more time and more investment, and maybe you get fewer swipes that way, but I
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It seems like, this is the next question, there is currently a lot more infighting with
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Okay, here's what I always say, because there's always fighting.
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I think there's always fighting between conservatives and Republicans.
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But right now we got a big fight because you got Christless conservatism and you've got
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actual conservatism who understands at the very least that this country, and therefore
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the conservatives who want to conserve the principles that this country was founded on,
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was established by people who believed and wrote into our founding documents that we were
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made by God and that we were given certain inalienable rights by him.
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And because he is the creator of the universe, he is authority over the universe, and his power
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supersedes the power of any man-made government.
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And so the rights that that superseding authority gives us, that God gives us, cannot be taken
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away by a power that is less than him by the government.
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Our rights to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of property, those are
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They cannot be arbitrarily taken away by the government.
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And so you have to, at the very least, believe that in order to be a cohesive, coherent conservative.
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If you believe that the government is the highest power that we have, then there really is no
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basis for the argument that we shouldn't be able to make up rights and take away rights
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There's no basis for you believing that the Constitution should stand.
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That is all based, again, at the very least, on the idea that there is a God.
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And I would argue, especially if you look at the charters of the colonies, of the original
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colonies, that there was an emphasis not on just this belief in a deistic God, but in Jesus
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And it used to be a requirement that you had to be a Bible-believing, gospel-believing Christian
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People who say this is not a Christian country, they're just wrong.
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Like, ask Grok to write you out, like, what were the requirements to serve in office in
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And if you abandon the God who created right and wrong, the God who created the truth, the
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God who gave us our inalienable rights, then everything is arbitrary.
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Because science can tell us when life begins, but it can't tell us why ending life is wrong.
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Science can tell us that there is only male and female, but it cannot tell us why external
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reality trumps someone's inner feelings about who they really are.
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Science and pragmatism and secular logic can only get us so far, but it's really the Christian
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And so that is where, like, a lot of our disagreement really comes from.
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You've got the pragmatists versus the Christians.
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You've got the moderates versus the Christians.
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But then, you know, there are people who are presumably on the right who don't believe that
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women should be a part of the public sphere at all.
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You don't believe that women should talk about politics or culture, that they shouldn't have
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So you've got those people in addition to the, like, center-left moderates that are there.
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In some ways, it's good because we've got a bigger coalition than we've ever really had
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But why, at the end of the day, like, you don't really see them attacking each other quite
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as much as we do on the right because progressivism destroys.
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They've made that very clear time and time again.
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And when you're in the business of destroying something, it doesn't really matter what you
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As long as you all have the same goal to tear down the building, one person can have a
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hammer, one person can have a bulldozer, one person can have a bat.
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But when you're trying to build something, everyone has to have the same materials.
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What is the foundation of this building that we are trying to build?
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We can't agree on what kinds of bricks we're going to use, if we're going to use bricks
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at all, who has what tool and when they're going to use it and how.
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We have to be a lot more united to build than you have to be to destroy.
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So that is why we have so much infighting on the right.
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But it all stems, I think, from the Christless conservatism versus those who understand what
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I will read the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and I'll read the Washington
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If that's who's got the scoop, I do want to read the first article that read it.
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But I have become extremely discerning in sussing out the language that is used.
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And toxic empathy, I think, if I do say so myself, is a really good guide to helping you
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read articles and ask good questions and think, wait, what facts are they leaving out?
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They're trying to evoke a particular emotion so you will support a certain conclusion and
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a certain policy that they want you to support.
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And once you realize that, once you start asking yourself, what are they trying to get
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And you really have to break down every single little word and every sentence and what's
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And then once I realize, OK, this is one side of the story.
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And of course, it affirms what a progressive would want to believe about Trump or whatever.
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And I honestly think that X is a really good place for that.
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I will type in like the headline of a story or the person involved in a story that's going
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And I will look at posts because a lot of creators on X spend time fact checking things
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and busting myths and they will include their sources.
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And it's a really good way to see what other people are saying about things and suss things
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I'm also not ashamed of using sometimes if I like really want to try to figure out things,
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like if I really want to try to figure out like what's behind a narrative, you can use
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You really have to ask the right questions, though.
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Nothing's going to replace the human mind or critical thinking.
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You still have to ask the right questions because Grok and ChatGPT, they're all programmed
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And I was also given this at a speaking engagement.
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And I really like taking this on all of my trips.
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It's just the regular ESV, but it has lots of cool depictions in it.
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We pray, uh, every night and we do, obviously we go to church and all of that.
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Um, we try to do that every morning and every night praying, reading our Bible, singing, um,
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almost every morning I am singing a version of this is the day.
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And I'm sure the older they get, like when they get into their teenage years, they won't appreciate that.
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This is the day that the Lord has, this is not counted as a devotional, by the way.
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And rise and shine and give God the glory, glory.
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That's what our morning looks like at the Suggie household.
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Would I rather listen to Kamala's laugh on repeat for three hours?
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Okay, the pit bull, because you didn't put any restrictions on this, I would not let him inside.
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And I, because if I had to listen to Kamala's laugh for three hours, that could cause like PTSD.
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That could get stuck in my head and not be able to get out of my head.
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And that would be at least be one hour that I would make sure that a pit bull is not eating a toddler.
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So, I would see it as a service to the community if I were making sure that the pit bull was behaving.
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What is your take on how Trump is doing so far?
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Okay, I do have a take on this because I know that there's a lot going on with the market.
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There are so many disparate thoughts about the tariffs.
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So many thoughts from people that I really like and respect and that I agree on a lot.
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I do not consider myself an expert on tariffs and global trade wars.
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And my dad, as you know, he was in investments for decades.
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And he reminds us that the market is not the only indicator or the primary indicator of how the economy is doing.
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And that Trump has talked about this for a long time.
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I don't know the answer to all of the tariff questions.
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And let me tell you, as someone who has been, I think, very fairly critical of Trump when I need to be.
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Even just things that he has said and ideas that he has represented over the years.
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I am kind of in the season of my Trump support of, you know, I think I just trust that he knows what he's doing.
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Is that, I mean, that's kind of surprising coming from me.
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And I think of the pain that we have been through with Biden's presidency.
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The pain that we would be going through with Kamala Harris's presidency.
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He has every incentive to make sure that the economy does well.
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And I do think that we're going to come out on the other side of this.
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I'm not someone who's like, oh, Trump is just doing 40.
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But I just think that they know what they're doing.
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And I think deportations could accelerate even more.
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But I think as far as executive orders, they've been good.
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Protecting women's sports on the congressional level.
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I mean, Democrats have blocked that every chance they can get.
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I just think about the alternative, which we were so close to and was going to be so bad.
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And yeah, I'm just I'm I'm very happy that Trump won.
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That doesn't mean even if you're happy that Trump won, you can still criticize him and you
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can still not like some policies that he's implementing.
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Um, and that's not because, oh, it won't affect me.
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Tips for managing sibling conflict between toddlers.
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And I think that the home is a really good time to teach is a really good place to teach
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And that's why I think if you can having siblings close together is so important because it's
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really a training ground for friendships and all kinds of relationships that you have throughout
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You have that connection, that familial tie and just the reality that you are stuck together
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and that you are going to have to share a room or share a house and you're going to
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Now, here's something that I'm trying to get better at is not always interjecting to
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That's tough for me because I don't like to hear the whining.
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And so I really want to interfere and help them figure it out.
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But I also know that the older they get, the more capable they are of figuring it out
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Now, here's one thing, though, I can't stand and that I will not tolerate my husband.
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I will not tolerate is bullying and like just insisting on getting your way every time.
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That can be difficult is teaching, sticking up for yourself while also being gracious and
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We don't allow bullying, but we do try to get them to resolve conflict and figure out
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But know that, know that siblings will have conflicts.
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My husband and I were basically only children for a period of time because he's got two sisters
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I've got two brothers that are much older than him.
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So we didn't have like we didn't have to deal with that when we were young.
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So we feel like we are learning what that looks like.
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All of our kids are two years apart and they get on each other's nerves.
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And I'm really trying to get better at letting them figure it out.
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So I wish I could say I've got all the solutions.
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I'm telling you like what I'm trying to do and what I'm trying to learn right now.
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Now, it's just like what I found in that if you allow them to get bored, they find something
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Usually, not always, but usually if you let them try to figure out the conflict, they
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Sometimes you do have to intervene when it gets to the point of them just like getting
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But my hope and prayer is that my girls, that they love each other, that they just love each
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other their whole lives because I meet siblings that are great friends and they rely on each
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other and their kids are still friends and their husbands are friends or spouses.
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So I want to create an environment where they are friends, where they work out their differences,
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where they are each other's best friends before anyone else.
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And so I'm trying the best that I can to create an environment where they just really
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love and forgive each other and look out for one another, giving them responsibility, the
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older one's responsibility to take care of the younger ones.
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And like they love when they get to help with the little ones.
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Um, and even my youngest one, she like wants to turn around and then like help her babies
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She calls every one that is her size or smaller a baby.
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And so, yeah, just trying to also help them be helpful, I think, um, is a good way to do
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I don't, a lot of people have different views on like sharing rooms, but some people would
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say that having your kids share rooms helps them bond and helps them resolve their conflicts
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Um, I, there's a lot of mini therapy sessions that we have in our home with girls and that's
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There's a lot of talking through things and external processing in our home that does seem
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Um, but one of the most extensive recipes that I've done that I haven't done in a long time
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And she also makes, um, these recipe books, but, uh, cookbooks that her, um, her chicken
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You marinate the chicken and pickle juice overnight.
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And then you, in the morning, you, or the next day you bread them and whatever, and then
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you cut up your potato and fry it in beef tallow.
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Uh, gosh, how much my kids make me laugh, how like loving they are.
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I mean, we just like, we just all love each other so much and love spending time together.
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That doesn't mean that it's never like overwhelming, but we just genuinely have so much like affection
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I love hearing their new thoughts and their new words.
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They're just like, like fun little people to be with.
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Um, there's another question in here about breastfeeding.
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This is my first time in six years not to be breastfeeding or pregnant.
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It's so six and a half years because that was fall and it's kind of sad.
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I'm trying not to cry about it all the time, but it's also nice.
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It's like, okay, you can take a vitamin without thinking about six different layers of things.
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And if you're able to take it, it kind of feels freeing, but it's also like, oh my gosh,
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I'm out of that stage, at least, at least for right now.
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Um, so yeah, different for now, it's a different stage of, of motherhood and everyone just gets
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I know everyone tells you that, but it's really true.
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And I've been seeing those posts lately on Instagram saying, you know, like depicting that
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hypothetical fictional scenario of like you're an 85 year old.
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And you wake up or you dream that you're 35 again, and you wake up without any pain in
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You hear little steps coming into your room to wake you up.
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You don't rush at all because you know how quickly it goes.
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Y'all are all in the same house for the first time that you can remember it.
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It's so easy to rush through those little years, but the little moments in the little
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But I'm really trying to remember that because sometimes I think, oh my gosh, where did the
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So I really try to cherish every moment as much as I can.
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Hope you enjoyed today's episode of our Q&As, and we will be back here soon.