Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - January 10, 2020


REPLAY: Husband Q & A


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00:00:00.000 Hello, relatable listeners. I am here with my husband, Timothy, and we are answering
00:00:07.020 your relationship questions. We got so many relationship questions. We're probably not
00:00:13.420 going to be able to get through all of them. We'll try, but I don't know.
00:00:16.080 Yeah, I don't think we're going to. But before we get started, I do want to talk to you guys
00:00:20.120 about Unplanned. Now, I know a lot of you have probably already seen the movie. If you haven't,
00:00:24.300 you have to go do that. You've probably already heard about the controversy that is
00:00:28.280 surrounding it. They're looking at, a lot of people are looking at the MPAAs. Do you say that?
00:00:35.420 I don't know if you say it like that. MPAA, MPAA. They're looking at the R rating that was given
00:00:40.940 to the movie, and they're saying, okay, well, maybe I shouldn't go to the movie because I'm a
00:00:46.660 Christian, so it's R rated. They're kind of worried that maybe the R rating is going to steer away young
00:00:52.400 people, but I really encourage you to go see it. Now, it is a little bit disturbing. It's hard to
00:00:59.160 watch. I spontaneously burst into tears, but it's really good to see the reality of abortion.
00:01:07.300 Abby Johnson, the person who the movie is about, she had two abortions. She worked for Planned
00:01:12.160 Parenthood. She was a staunch supporter of abortion. Even her mother and her husband
00:01:18.400 couldn't change her mind. They couldn't get her to think differently about it. So while she was at
00:01:23.540 Planned Parenthood, she rose so quickly throughout the ranks that she became director of the Planned
00:01:28.280 Parenthood clinic where she worked. But one day she was asked to go in and actually assist with an
00:01:34.960 abortion procedure, and she saw for the first time what goes on. I mean, that's kind of crazy to think
00:01:40.480 about. She was already director of this clinic, but she didn't know what really went on. But she saw
00:01:45.200 one went on an abortion, and she walked out completely changed. It totally changed her
00:01:49.760 perspective. So this movie is that story. This is a quote. It gives an eye-opening look inside the
00:01:56.640 abortion industry from a woman who was once its most passionate advocate. So if you guys want to see
00:02:01.960 that or just learn more about it, go to unplannedfilm.com. Unplannedfilm.com. It is playing right now.
00:02:08.820 I promise you that if you're anything like me, you are not going to leave the theater the same way
00:02:15.360 that you came in. And so make sure that you go check that out. Okay, so now we are going to answer
00:02:20.780 some of these questions. Are you ready? I'm ready. Okay. Well, some of them I think are going to be
00:02:26.700 easier than others. And what you'll probably figure out about our personalities is that one way that we
00:02:32.580 compliment each other is that I talk a lot. And I'm a little less talkative, but a little less
00:02:38.620 talkative. I'll try to make sure I can talk a little bit more, give my insight, give some answers. He has
00:02:42.580 really good insight. And so I'm going to give him the floor as much as he wants the floor. If you don't
00:02:47.660 want the floor, you can just let me know. Yeah, that's fine. I appreciate it. But we all know what
00:02:52.680 we're here for. Yeah. Okay. Well, first, I think we should start by telling people because I got
00:02:57.220 I got a few questions about this, how we met. I've shared this story on the podcast before,
00:03:03.760 but I think it's important to set up this context for people who don't know. Or maybe you should
00:03:09.880 tell a little bit about you and where you come from. About me? Yeah. So I am from Georgia,
00:03:16.360 originally. Georgia boy. Lived there my whole life until two years ago, whenever we decided to uproot
00:03:22.120 and move over to Texas. Love it in Texas. It's great here. But... Grew up in a small town. Yeah.
00:03:28.600 Small town in Georgia. Small town there. And went to school a couple hours north of where I lived at
00:03:34.540 the University of Georgia in Athens, where we met. And that'll be a part of our story. It is a part of
00:03:39.740 our story. After school, worked there for a little bit. Got a job out in Texas. Moved out here with my
00:03:47.320 Texas girl. And so, yeah. Here we are. So when we both lived in Athens, we obviously didn't know
00:03:54.200 each other because I went to school at Furman in Greenville, which is about an hour and a half away,
00:03:58.440 a little bit more, from Athens. And I got a job at a PR firm there. And so I was working. You were
00:04:06.540 selling mortgages in Athens. And I just happened, I think it was like probably in August of 2014,
00:04:13.740 I found out about this gym called Tribe that was like a pseudo CrossFit gym. Is that how you describe
00:04:21.200 it? I would say as much, yeah. And you were also a personal trainer there. Yeah, I was. I'd been
00:04:26.500 working out there for a little bit. Really enjoyed it. Loved the owners. They were great people.
00:04:31.760 I would say that they were just a good part of our lives in general. Yeah, they were great.
00:04:36.420 Yeah. And so that's kind of probably why I was attracted to this gym. I'd never really done
00:04:42.660 CrossFit a little bit, but I just decided to go. And it was after like a few weeks of being there that
00:04:49.380 I noticed him. Honestly, to be perfectly honest, not in a way that was like, oh my gosh, who is that
00:04:56.320 person? Not that I didn't have that reaction, but it wasn't one of those things where it's like,
00:05:01.980 oh my gosh, I know that's my future husband. It wasn't like love at first sight. Actually,
00:05:06.260 the first time I saw him, I was in a class. He never worked out with the classes. He was like
00:05:10.960 way too cool for that. Naturally. Yeah. And then we just started talking in classes. You started
00:05:15.880 coming to the classes, which I kind of thought was intentional. I thought it was purposeful
00:05:19.800 that he started coming to the classes and then he would, I don't know, you just kind of started
00:05:25.580 talking to me just like super casually. Yeah, definitely. I was a little bit nervous to be
00:05:31.400 talking to another girl again, but I was excited and I was like, hey, she looks awesome.
00:05:35.380 Like she's cool. She's fun to be around. She was talking in the classes to everyone,
00:05:40.540 really nice person. So I got to talk to her a little bit. So I tried to flirt a little bit.
00:05:46.400 Yeah, it worked. I actually remember the first time that I was like, oh, I'm going to like,
00:05:51.300 this is my move. I'm going to make a move was when I remembered he told me, he must've just said it
00:05:57.580 in passing in class. Like, oh, it's my birthday or something like that. But I didn't say anything.
00:06:04.340 And then the Monday after his birthday, I remember he had told me that he went home to celebrate his
00:06:10.200 24th birthday. Yeah, it would have been 24th. Yeah, 24th at that point. And when he came into the gym
00:06:15.500 the Monday after, I wished him happy birthday. And I was like, he's going to know that I remembered our
00:06:21.060 conversations and it worked. It was impressive. It did work. I was like, wow, it was my birthday.
00:06:26.620 I barely mentioned that to you. I know. And yeah, that was meaningful. I logged away. That was my,
00:06:30.880 that was my move. And from there, we, so we were talking in classes, but then we started talking
00:06:36.600 after class. Yeah. And you would just kind of like walk me to my car and. We just happened to leave at
00:06:42.660 the same exact time. And you happened to start going to all of the same classes that I was going to.
00:06:47.700 If you were like, just happened to be talking to someone else and it was taking you a long time
00:06:51.280 to leave. You know, I just felt like I probably just by coincidence needed to stretch more that
00:06:55.840 day. Yeah. So I would just stretch more. You needed to fill up a few water bottles. Yeah. Yeah. And
00:06:59.720 then by the time you were starting to walk out, I was like, oh yeah, I'm good too. So yeah, it just
00:07:03.680 happened to be like that. It just happened to be like that. So coincidentally, we would walk out the
00:07:07.460 door at the exact same time and we would talk outside of my car, not even in my car. Cause it was still
00:07:12.920 like it was warm outside. And so we would talk, but eventually the like five minute conversations
00:07:18.580 and he like, he didn't, he wasn't asking me for my number. He didn't have my number. We
00:07:21.580 weren't texting. He didn't ask me on a date. Cause you would, I mean, you had just gotten out
00:07:26.220 of a relationship. And so we were just talking, but eventually the conversations just got longer
00:07:32.740 and longer. So after like a, probably a couple of weeks of talking outside my car, one day we
00:07:39.160 talked for like four hours from like six 30 to 10 30. And it's like, okay. Yeah. And we
00:07:46.900 just like, just couldn't stop talking. Just shirking all of the responsibilities. No other
00:07:51.200 friends, no other, no eating dinner, nothing like that. Just work out real hard, skip dinner
00:07:57.460 and talk for four hours in a parking lot. And I didn't even think of it. And I don't even
00:08:01.300 really know what we talked about. It was a mix of a lot of things, you know, your love
00:08:07.120 of Backstreet Boys, your love of C.S. Lewis. Uh, we talked a lot of small things, definitely
00:08:14.500 not like intellectual things always, but then we would talk about theology. You would share
00:08:18.980 all of your opinions. A lot of the same things you bring up on this podcast all the time.
00:08:23.120 Yeah. And it was, it was really what made me fall in love with just the fact that, Hey,
00:08:28.340 this girl is different. She could really articulate a lot of, a lot of things.
00:08:32.140 Yeah. And he was just so easy. He was so easy for me to talk to. And after about a couple of weeks
00:08:38.380 of us just talking outside my car, again, him not asking for my number. And I don't even remember
00:08:44.040 caring, honestly, him not asking me on a date. I also don't really remember caring about that. I was
00:08:48.620 just really enjoying talking to him. I texted one of my friends also named Allie and said, I think I met
00:08:54.520 my husband, which was ridiculous sounding because none of them knew him. And you know, like we hadn't
00:09:01.580 gone on a date, like I said. And like no reason for anybody to have known me or for any of my friends
00:09:05.360 to have known you because it wasn't anything. It was just chatting at the gym. We were just working
00:09:09.760 out. Yeah. Um, but I just knew. And I remember before I met him, like when I was dating other people,
00:09:18.620 I would ask married couples, how do you know? Like, how do you just know? They say, when you
00:09:24.540 know, you know, when I just always thought that was so dumb. Like when you know, you know, I don't
00:09:28.460 know what that means. It's almost like not helpful. You're like, Oh, when you know, you know, I know,
00:09:33.180 but it's true. It's, I mean, at least for me, that's not true for everyone. Like I have friends
00:09:38.640 that, you know, they went through a lot of doubting. There was a lot of back and forth. They dated for a
00:09:42.700 long time on and off before they got married, which is totally fine. Everyone's story is different.
00:09:47.200 Right. But for me, I just knew I was so sure. So immediately, probably before you were
00:09:53.480 probably, I mean, I just, that's also kind of like my personality. I just, when I know
00:09:58.200 something is right, I just do. I knew pretty, pretty soon too. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but then you
00:10:04.840 did ask me on a date. I did. There's some dispute on what our first date was. Yeah. So like we just
00:10:09.980 went to the local Chick-fil-A, which is fitting, I think because of how much we eat Chick-fil-A
00:10:15.720 right now. Still, it is still a big part of our lives. We just went there and just chatted. I
00:10:19.660 told you some personal, maybe two personal of, of things. And then. Oh yeah. He divulged
00:10:24.360 like his whole life story at this Chick-fil-A. Just let it all out. And so that was Chick-fil-A.
00:10:30.220 So you don't consider that our first date. Also don't really consider the next date really.
00:10:34.280 Yeah. It was the first date. Yeah. Yeah. But I think it was when he told me, like you told me
00:10:40.920 your background, you told me the things that had happened to you in college or that you had done
00:10:45.480 in college and you'd had a little bit of a rough past few years and you just wanted to be totally
00:10:52.060 honest with me. Even though I think it was before that maybe that I thought, okay, I could definitely
00:10:57.960 see myself marrying this person. It was then just his like total and complete vulnerability with me.
00:11:03.080 Like no pretense whatsoever. I was like, oh my gosh, this guy is different. I mean, any of you who
00:11:08.800 have been dating for any period of time or who have dated multiple guys, you know, that it's hard
00:11:16.580 to find someone who is genuine and who is honest and who isn't afraid to show their flaws or their
00:11:22.280 faults. And I just loved that about him. Like there wasn't a part of me that was like, oh, now that I
00:11:27.920 know this stuff that you went through in college, like, is it really something that I'm okay with?
00:11:34.000 I thought that it showed a lot of character that he was that honest, that fast. It did not scare me
00:11:39.500 or overwhelm me at all. Yeah. And I was thankful for that. Yeah. And I remember like, I tried to
00:11:45.680 respond by saying, well, you know, like here's some stuff that I've done. Like I was stupid in college
00:11:50.120 and he was literally like, please stop. Yeah. Like that wasn't the intention. Like,
00:11:54.460 yeah, I'm telling you about this. You don't have to say anything else. Yeah. And then,
00:11:58.980 so we kept talking or whatever. Actually, I remember it was the beginning. It was the beginning
00:12:05.020 of November. I remember it was like the weekend of November 2nd. So it must've been sometime after
00:12:08.900 that, but before our official first date, I don't remember, but, um, I went home for a friend's
00:12:15.620 wedding and, uh, you were texting me. He had finally gotten my number. You were texting me and I texted you
00:12:21.940 back and he just didn't text me back for like three days. And it wasn't one of those texts.
00:12:29.780 He's looking at me like, he doesn't know what I'm talking about. Well, I remember this. It wasn't
00:12:34.040 one of those texts that was like an end of conversation text. So I was a little bit worried.
00:12:39.280 That was like the one time I can look back and be like, what was happening? I don't know.
00:12:44.400 I was probably just trying not to bug you or something. Yeah. Just trying to be cool.
00:12:47.880 I didn't want to be too desperate. Yeah. Well, that changed really fast.
00:12:51.260 For both of us. Because soon after that, we were like all in a hundred percent. And we went on our
00:12:56.500 first date. He took me to a Mexican restaurant. Yeah. Attached to a gas station. It was the best
00:13:02.280 one in Athens though. It was a great, it gets a bad rap because it is. Low bar. Low bar. Okay. So my
00:13:08.840 thought process was she's from Texas and she loves Mexican food. So I'm going to show her some subpar
00:13:14.980 Mexican food. Yeah. I didn't know that she likes Tex-Mex and that, that's the distinction. I failed.
00:13:19.660 A bunch of people. They call it cheese dip and it's white. Yeah. It's true. That's okay. It was.
00:13:24.900 The food's not as good there. But it was cute. It was sweet. And it was my fault. I got a taco salad.
00:13:30.080 You did get a taco salad. Yeah. You didn't eat any of it. I, well, you know, that's my fault. I think
00:13:35.460 I was still in that stage where I like didn't want to eat a lot in front of him. That also changed
00:13:39.740 very quickly. But, and then what did we do after Mexican food? But I was very thankful
00:13:44.380 that you went with me that afternoon because I had also scored us great tickets to the Georgia
00:13:49.880 Auburn game. It was, it was going to be a fantastic time. And then you had a wedding to go to instead.
00:13:55.300 But that was okay. It was. Yeah. Because what did we do after the Mexican restaurant? We went and
00:14:01.100 walked around downtown Athens and it was great. That's all you want to say? Yeah. Okay. Well,
00:14:07.220 that, well, now it sounds sketchy. Okay. I got a tattoo afterwards and that it was something we had
00:14:12.860 talked about doing and we had made, you know, plans to do this thing. And I was like, all right,
00:14:18.760 after our first date, after we get lunch together, we went and got a tattoo and it was. He got a tattoo.
00:14:25.120 Not like a tattoo together. No, no, no. A tattoo that he had been wanting, you had been wanting to get. I had been wanting it. And you had been talking to me about getting a tattoo for like the whole time that we had been getting to know each other. And so we did do that on our first date.
00:14:37.000 We did. But I remember thinking as he was getting his tattoo, like, this is going to be really weird if we don't end up getting married. It's going to be a tough story to tell.
00:14:44.740 This is going to be odd. But we did. And then after that, someone asked, one of the questions was, how long did you guys date before you got married? Five?
00:14:54.800 Not long. Yeah. Five months. Five months. And then I proposed and it was a four month engagement.
00:14:59.740 Four month engagement. Real fast. Everyone's story is different. I don't recommend that for every single person.
00:15:07.380 But we just, I mean, we just knew.
00:15:09.920 It's based on personality. We're very much those type of people. And we were ready. When we knew, we were ready to go in for it.
00:15:16.420 Yeah. And I haven't, I mean, obviously, but just in case anyone's wondering, like, I obviously haven't looked, I haven't looked back.
00:15:24.460 Absolutely not.
00:15:25.460 I'm so thankful. So thankful. And someone did ask, this would be a good transition. What is your favorite thing about the other person?
00:15:35.240 Hmm. Favorite thing about the other person? I've always, about Allie that I've really loved and that I loved in the beginning before she started doing what she does now was just her drive and her ability to create out of nothing is what I call it.
00:15:51.400 Essentially, she's always wanted to be an entrepreneur. She's always had this entrepreneurial spirit and drive. And I really like that about her. She's a self-starter, thousand percent.
00:16:02.840 That's the reason why we're on this podcast now, because you just had an inkling in your eye that you're, I'm just going to do something. And you went and do it, did it.
00:16:10.280 And not a lot of people do that. And a lot of people have that drive. Like, it's one thing to want the entrepreneur lifestyle. That's another thing to actually start it and to get going for it. And that's one thing I've always loved about her.
00:16:21.720 Thanks. What I love about Timothy, there's a lot that I love about Timothy, obviously. That's why I knew I was going to marry him from the very beginning. But the one thing that I really love is his discipline. Like, once he sets his mind to something, he's like, well, I'm just going to do this.
00:16:37.580 And I always go back to the original thing that I learned about him, which was that even though when I met him, he was like super in shape, all into CrossFit, he told me that at one point he was not, that he was what you would call skinny fat.
00:16:51.820 Oh, yeah, for sure. Skinny fat, a little chubby.
00:16:55.300 Yeah. Was it in shape at all? And I remember seeing pictures, but you decided to do something called the TB12 method.
00:17:01.800 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's Tom Brady. What's he called?
00:17:05.420 Tom Brady. It was something else, something I found on the Internet. This guy's small town program.
00:17:10.340 I'm getting confused with all of the fitness things that you have done over the years.
00:17:14.380 Essentially, it was like a 70-day program. I was like, I've never stuck to anything in my life. I'm going to this time. And I did. And it changed me completely.
00:17:22.340 It was really beneficial. And you became like super healthy.
00:17:24.860 And this is the reason why I love fitness. Maybe not as much now. I'm probably not as fit as I was, obviously, in college.
00:17:32.040 But it just helped me out of a time when I was not feeling well. I made stupid mistakes. I was feeling almost like in a state of depression or something like that.
00:17:43.280 And it was what pulled me out of that was being able to have a goal to work towards and be able to accomplish that. And it was helpful.
00:17:50.900 You did. Like, you started out not being able to, like, run a mile, basically, right?
00:17:55.460 Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
00:17:56.240 And then by the end of it, I mean, you've done a lot. And now he's still super in shape, much more in shape than I am.
00:18:02.540 But I love just his ability to set his mind to something. It's the same thing at work.
00:18:07.280 I also love that he takes care of the, like, the managerial or the administrative stuff, all the money stuff in our house.
00:18:15.220 I am, like, very much a big picture person. And I don't like little tasks that I don't feel like advance what I need to do.
00:18:25.320 And he is a very good caretaker of our home that I don't have to worry about, that, you know, obviously, like, bills are going to get paid, that whoever, someone who is working for us or working with us or did a service to us, that they're going to get paid.
00:18:41.420 Like, he's just really good about all that kind of stuff, which I think goes back to discipline, too. And that is something that I do not have.
00:18:47.460 Yeah. I've learned that, you know, it doesn't always come naturally. But, you know, if it doesn't, I don't do it. So nobody's going to.
00:18:55.360 Yeah, no one's going to.
00:18:56.040 People are going to be coming after us. So it's got to get done.
00:18:58.660 And he makes really good eggs. Any kind of eggs that you want. Scrambled eggs, fried eggs. Those are the only kind of eggs that I like. But you're good at it.
00:19:07.460 I can poach eggs.
00:19:08.360 You can poach. I don't like poached eggs, but I'll take his word for it. Someone did ask us, which one of you is the better cook and who usually makes dinner? Two different answers.
00:19:16.820 I usually make dinner. But I would say he is the better cook for most things. Maybe not for all things.
00:19:28.580 Yeah.
00:19:29.340 I don't know. Maybe there's something that I make better than you. But he's, I would think he's, I would say he's a really good cook.
00:19:35.280 I do like cooking.
00:19:36.420 A very messy cook.
00:19:37.400 A very messy cook.
00:19:38.180 I don't like cleaning up after myself when I cook.
00:19:39.900 Or while it's happening.
00:19:40.820 Yeah, I enjoy cooking. And I got really good at it whenever I was trying to eat healthy. And it's like, oh, you've got to be able to actually cook something to make that happen.
00:19:51.620 Yeah.
00:19:51.860 But now it's less of a, something I do.
00:19:55.220 Yeah. And he's, I mean, he's always like happy to cook, but he gets home pretty late from work. And so I always cook. I'm not a bad cook. I'm not one of those people that's like, oh my gosh, everything's on fire. I can't cook. It doesn't taste good.
00:20:06.420 I just am not as good at it as he is. He's also, you're much better at watching things to where they all finish at the same time. I'm like, oh, chicken's done. About an hour until the potatoes are ready.
00:20:19.160 Right. So that's not really good. That's also part of just me not.
00:20:23.440 That's what the microwave is for.
00:20:24.800 That's what the microwave is for. Okay. Here's a money question. Do we merge our earnings into one thing, one money pot, this person says? Or do we keep my money and your money?
00:20:37.640 Oh, good question. So yeah, we joint bank accounts in it together completely. Joint try to do budget meetings to make sure that we're on the same page with what we're going to spend our money on. But it's definitely a joint endeavor. Got that from Dave Ramsey, somebody that really, I've listened to all, I've listened to his stuff. I've read his books.
00:20:58.720 Yeah. I mean, it's just advocating for a married couple needs to have joint accounts, in my opinion.
00:21:04.540 And that's never been a problem for us. I mean, money is always, it can be a stressful conversation. And it probably was more at the beginning of our marriage when we had less money than we do now. When we were, you know, like in the very beginning, living in Athens.
00:21:20.020 We were basically college students. Yeah. Neither of us were making very much money at all. And that was a much more, and we were also making stupid decisions with our money.
00:21:27.840 Yeah. I mean, we were eating out as much then as we do now, but we have more money now than we did then. Yeah. And we would be, we were stressed whenever we talked about money. For sure.
00:21:38.680 Now it's, it's better. And I think that's what helps with the joint accounts or merging your finances together. This question is worded because it makes it to where that's a less difficult conversation to have.
00:21:52.300 And it keeps from one person having their own side and their own money problems that you don't know about. There's less secrets involved.
00:22:00.040 Yeah. Secrecy. And I do think that there's, especially in a Christian marriage where God makes it clear that you are not just one flesh, but you are also one in spirit.
00:22:07.840 And you are on the same path. You may be doing two different things. Like I have one job, he has another job.
00:22:13.780 But this mentality of, well, hey, I earned this money. Or, well, I'm the one, either one of you, I'm the one who brings home the most money.
00:22:22.220 So are you really going to tell me that I can't buy this? That kind of mentality, although we've probably fallen into that.
00:22:29.400 But it is a sinful mentality because it causes bitterness and it causes resentment and it's just, it's not unifying.
00:22:41.460 Yeah. I think that's what marriage is for is to help each other whenever one person is down or one person is in sickness and in health, it says, you know, you got to be there for the person no matter what.
00:22:51.900 But I think it's the same with money. It's for rich or for poor. Well, if you're not in it together and one person is out of work or something, but that's their money, then I don't feel like that's a good way to live it.
00:23:03.800 Now, obviously, I feel like in those scenarios, people, married people are going to help each other out, even if it is separate accounts.
00:23:08.680 I'm not saying people with separate accounts don't help each other.
00:23:10.520 But I've found it easier when you just think this is our pool together.
00:23:15.660 Yeah. And we're both contributing to it, contributing to it. And this is what we're supposed to do.
00:23:19.580 And we've both had stages to where like there's been two stages where I didn't have like a steady paycheck because I've been transitioning from one job to the other.
00:23:28.920 Or I was trying to get my footing in in this job. And he he has always had a steady paycheck.
00:23:36.580 But there have been times also where like I've had to, you know, like we've needed to cut into the money that I earned to help pay for something.
00:23:45.960 And so it really is. It has to be the mentality that this is ours, that we are one person.
00:23:51.560 We're on the same team. We're not competing against one another.
00:23:54.620 And that also helps you be proud of one another for whatever accomplishments you have, not saying, well, how much did you make this month?
00:24:01.560 That's just not healthy, in my opinion.
00:24:04.300 Definitely.
00:24:05.700 Speaking of podcasts, someone asked about what podcast you listen to specifically.
00:24:12.280 And if there's any we listen to together, you said we do listen to Dave Ramsey together.
00:24:16.140 We do. Yeah, that's a great question.
00:24:17.440 I love podcasts like almost too much to where, you know, it's always in my ear and I can't just think of something, have my own thoughts sometimes.
00:24:23.860 But I do, obviously, I love this podcast.
00:24:27.480 I love listening to what Allie has to say about culture and politics.
00:24:31.400 I keep up with it as much as I can with political, on the political side.
00:24:35.840 But then the breath of fresh air with the theological side, I really find fun and interesting.
00:24:42.220 And I like your take on culture.
00:24:43.140 But outside of this podcast, I listen daily.
00:24:47.460 I try to listen to in the mornings, two podcasts that Wall Street Journal puts out, What's News and Your Money Briefing.
00:24:53.280 It just keeps me up to date.
00:24:54.740 I work in the financial world, so that's why that's interesting to me and I like to stay up to date.
00:25:00.280 That, Dave Ramsey, we listen to that one together, mostly on airplanes, whenever we're flying together.
00:25:05.380 Yeah, he has, you know, he has AirPods.
00:25:07.380 He's one of those people.
00:25:08.840 And so I take one of the AirPods and I put it in my ear.
00:25:11.740 Yeah, and it's always good.
00:25:12.900 It's fun.
00:25:13.160 To hear about other people's questions and struggles and how you can learn from that.
00:25:18.820 Other things.
00:25:19.480 I like sports podcasts a ton.
00:25:21.900 And I'll even listen to sports podcasts with him.
00:25:24.160 Like, you were listening to a golf podcast a couple weeks ago.
00:25:26.980 No Laying Up.
00:25:27.820 It's a great podcast.
00:25:28.780 Yeah.
00:25:29.080 I know.
00:25:29.640 I mean, I did used to play golf, but I don't want to listen to a golf podcast.
00:25:32.480 But I'll listen to just about anything with him.
00:25:36.220 Okay.
00:25:36.440 What's a good way to find like-minded conservative Christians in the dating world?
00:25:40.720 I mean, that's, it's obviously our story isn't necessarily the most relatable to anyone because
00:25:49.080 it was just kind of a matter of, oh my gosh, we found this person and we didn't realize
00:25:54.540 that that's what we were looking for.
00:25:56.880 But I do have a lot of friends.
00:25:58.360 I have friends that are single that are kind of in the same boat.
00:26:01.540 And I think it's just a matter of being a part of communities and being a part of places
00:26:06.600 where other Christian people are.
00:26:08.480 I'm not sure it's something that you can force.
00:26:10.960 Of course, some people have had success with dating online, and I'm certainly not going
00:26:17.720 to categorically condemn that.
00:26:19.900 But I also have seen a lot of luck and just really healthy starts of relationships with
00:26:25.540 people who have found someone at church.
00:26:27.400 So you already have that kind of core commonality who have found someone through a friend who have
00:26:33.500 been part of like chamber of commerce or junior chamber of commerce in their areas.
00:26:38.480 And just being a part of groups where other like-minded people are.
00:26:43.120 And I know that might not be the most satisfying answer.
00:26:46.060 Of course, that's something that you can also pray for as well.
00:26:50.060 Now, I've talked about on this podcast, not making you like a future husband or a future
00:26:55.800 wife in idol, because the Bible does say it's better to be single than to be married.
00:27:01.600 As long as you can stay away from temptation, sexual temptation outside of marriage to fully
00:27:07.080 dedicate yourself to the Lord.
00:27:08.900 And so you can, of course, find full contentment in Christ without being married.
00:27:13.460 It's not wrong to desire being married.
00:27:15.380 It's not wrong to want a spouse or to be looking for a spouse.
00:27:18.820 But I do think it's a balance of constantly praying that God would grant you contentment in
00:27:24.160 Christ because he has already offered us that.
00:27:26.300 But also, if it is his will, that he would put you in the right situation or give you
00:27:32.020 the right opportunity to meet the person that you want to spend the rest of your life with.
00:27:36.140 I think that's, there's nothing wrong with that.
00:27:38.340 Yeah.
00:27:38.920 Would you add anything to that or no?
00:27:40.200 No, I agree with you there.
00:27:41.480 I think, like you're saying, being active in the places where you think you might find
00:27:45.440 those people is a valuable way to try to meet that.
00:27:49.320 And I think that's also an easy answer to give.
00:27:51.400 So it's not really too much insight, but.
00:27:53.520 Yeah.
00:27:53.980 But there's no, I mean, it's so different for every person that it's really hard.
00:27:58.320 It's hard to say, well, this is the one way that you do it.
00:28:01.200 Yeah.
00:28:01.620 Because it is very different.
00:28:03.400 Which one of you is responsible for washing the car?
00:28:07.320 Washing the car?
00:28:08.400 Me.
00:28:08.980 It's definitely me.
00:28:10.600 I am in charge of.
00:28:12.360 I'm just kidding.
00:28:14.480 I'm kidding.
00:28:15.560 I'm not.
00:28:16.020 I will never wash my car.
00:28:17.520 No, I think the local car washing place down the street is.
00:28:21.640 We just take it through there, zip it through.
00:28:23.820 But it's you.
00:28:24.700 You're the one that makes sure.
00:28:25.800 It's me that does it, yeah.
00:28:26.360 Like the $6 wash just gets it, and then I'll go and vacuum it out.
00:28:29.780 So I do that with our cars.
00:28:30.840 Yeah, and he's very frustrated with me when he looks at my car.
00:28:33.900 He's like, your car is disgusting.
00:28:35.720 Yeah.
00:28:35.900 And the car wash is right there.
00:28:37.580 I guess it's my fault.
00:28:38.340 You're not supposed to do it.
00:28:39.380 But see, that's one of those menial tasks that I don't want to do.
00:28:43.020 Because I'm a typical millennial in a lot of ways, and I don't want to be inconvenienced.
00:28:46.700 Yeah.
00:28:47.520 Okay.
00:28:48.080 One person asked how pregnancy has changed our relationship, for better or for worse.
00:28:53.080 I think it's been what I've liked, and this is for the good.
00:28:57.760 It's the excitement of the pregnancy.
00:28:59.840 Yeah.
00:29:00.320 It's given us something else or another person to be talking about.
00:29:04.340 It's like, oh, the baby girl is coming.
00:29:05.740 It's like, we're going to talk about her and think about how she's going to be and speculate on what she's going to be like.
00:29:13.240 Yeah.
00:29:13.740 And then the whole planning of, you know, where is she going to sleep in our house?
00:29:17.740 Which we've just started to do.
00:29:19.820 And why do we have so many animals?
00:29:20.980 And why do we have so many animals?
00:29:22.100 That's what we ask ourselves every night.
00:29:23.680 Why do we have so many animals?
00:29:26.260 We have three animals, if you don't already know.
00:29:28.100 We have two cats and a dog.
00:29:29.880 We have Reagan.
00:29:30.800 That's our dog.
00:29:31.700 She's our mutt.
00:29:32.760 And we have Rachel McAdams, the OG, the cat that we got when we first got married that he named.
00:29:38.040 And then we've got Sweatpants, the totally superfluous animal that we did not need, but who is also our best behaved animal.
00:29:44.540 Yeah, for sure.
00:29:45.500 That's the other cat, Sweatpants.
00:29:47.200 We have really odd names for our animals.
00:29:50.020 They're great names.
00:29:50.660 They're endearing.
00:29:51.420 Yeah.
00:29:51.820 And they're great animals.
00:29:53.140 But, yeah.
00:29:54.560 So I think as far as pregnancy, I mean, it's changed for the better.
00:30:02.120 I think we're excited.
00:30:04.160 Someone did ask how we decided when we were going to have kids.
00:30:09.000 Like, how did we make that decision?
00:30:11.380 I think for me, and I think this would be the same for you, it was just, I think it was just natural.
00:30:17.800 It's like, this feels right.
00:30:19.080 We're both comfortable.
00:30:20.540 Yeah.
00:30:20.720 We had just moved out in Texas.
00:30:22.560 Not just moved out, but we had moved out here.
00:30:24.280 We were getting our feet, like, planted here.
00:30:27.420 Yeah.
00:30:27.900 We had our house.
00:30:28.780 We knew we weren't going anywhere for a little bit.
00:30:31.700 And I had a stable job.
00:30:34.220 You had a stable job for the first time.
00:30:37.080 Well, not the first time, but, you know, you knew what you were in.
00:30:39.360 Yeah, it was like a career.
00:30:40.880 For good.
00:30:41.260 Yeah.
00:30:41.560 And I think it was just time.
00:30:44.040 Yeah.
00:30:44.360 It was new.
00:30:45.340 Well, we had kind of planned.
00:30:46.980 Like, I wrote in my, like, goals journal at the beginning of 2018 that maybe we would start trying at the end of 2018.
00:30:55.900 Um, and obviously it happened a lot sooner than that.
00:30:59.920 It was just, there was actually, like, an opportunity that I was entertaining at a network.
00:31:05.000 And I had filmed a pilot for a network.
00:31:09.040 And I told myself, okay, like, I don't want to try until I know whether or not this pilot is actually going to become a show.
00:31:18.160 And, um, it didn't become a show.
00:31:20.780 Thank goodness.
00:31:21.580 I mean, I mean, there's, there would be nothing wrong with that.
00:31:23.880 It would have been an awesome opportunity.
00:31:25.140 But thank goodness, because we ended up getting pregnant and everything has worked out really well.
00:31:30.420 Um, so God's timing and God's plan is obviously always better than ours.
00:31:36.760 But it just kind of, like, it just kind of happens.
00:31:39.360 Now, it wasn't terribly easy for us to get pregnant, actually.
00:31:43.800 It wasn't a lot of people.
00:31:44.920 It's like, okay, first time got pregnant.
00:31:46.780 For us, it was a few months.
00:31:49.000 Um, I had thyroid issues.
00:31:51.980 I had a kidney issue.
00:31:54.200 It was kind of on and off.
00:31:55.640 And we had kind of decided when we did get pregnant, okay, let's just not try anymore.
00:32:01.300 Let's not try because I was, you know, it had been five months or however long of trying and it hadn't happened.
00:32:07.020 So I was like, you know what, maybe it's just not time.
00:32:09.440 It's just not time right now.
00:32:10.540 And so I don't want to worry about it.
00:32:12.200 I don't want to be stressed out about it.
00:32:13.380 I don't want to track on the app and all this stuff.
00:32:15.840 It's just too, it's too much pressure.
00:32:17.680 I don't want to think about it.
00:32:18.880 And it was kind of like as soon as I just said, let's stop thinking about it, that it ended up happening.
00:32:25.540 So when it did happen, even though we had been trying technically, I was really surprised.
00:32:31.620 So we're very grateful for that.
00:32:34.060 Yeah, absolutely.
00:32:35.160 She's going to be here really soon.
00:32:38.040 Um, let's see.
00:32:41.400 What is something that you didn't know about each other until you got married?
00:32:44.740 Hmm.
00:32:47.680 You go ahead.
00:32:51.620 I feel like even though we only knew each other for a short amount of time, I feel like I knew a lot about you because he's pretty messy.
00:33:00.920 But I knew that because he lived in an apartment with three other guys when I first met him.
00:33:08.140 And that was disgusting.
00:33:11.040 It was disgusting.
00:33:12.780 It was gross.
00:33:13.680 If any of those guys are listening to this podcast, I don't even care.
00:33:16.880 It was disgusting.
00:33:18.300 I don't even know.
00:33:19.120 But I would still go over there because I was a nice girlfriend.
00:33:21.740 And I would still eat the food that you cooked in that disgusting kitchen.
00:33:26.940 Now, thankfully, you're not like that anymore.
00:33:29.020 Yeah, I'm not that bad.
00:33:30.400 No, it was just the combination, I think, of four guys living together, probably.
00:33:35.020 Absolutely.
00:33:35.860 But I don't know if I found out anything new.
00:33:39.180 It was four guys and the rent was like less than $200 a month.
00:33:42.760 You snore.
00:33:42.960 And you said I could say that on the podcast, so I'm not just trying to embarrass you.
00:33:46.680 Okay.
00:33:47.100 But, yeah, he does snore, but that's okay.
00:33:50.700 Yeah.
00:33:50.940 I forgive you for that.
00:33:52.000 Is there anything that you didn't know about me?
00:33:54.660 Well, I mean, I knew that you were going to do something cool with your life.
00:34:00.460 I knew it was going to be, all right, she's talented, she's special, she's different.
00:34:05.820 I knew that you were going to do something great, but I figured it would just be like, okay, PR.
00:34:10.540 You were going to start your own PR company one day or you were going to do something like that.
00:34:15.080 I don't know.
00:34:16.060 I had no idea it was going to take off into this field of politics or this field of, you know, being an influencer of any type.
00:34:22.540 And I think that was the big surprise for me.
00:34:26.200 I'm not surprised, what I found out about you.
00:34:28.960 Yeah.
00:34:29.440 And I don't think either of us did.
00:34:30.480 When we first got married, we didn't, I wasn't doing this.
00:34:33.520 It wasn't until after we got married that I even started speaking to sororities.
00:34:37.340 So he's been along for that ride.
00:34:40.620 And one thing, even though this wasn't a question that was asked, but one thing that I love about him, actually, someone did ask about like competing interests or something.
00:34:48.580 But one thing that I love about him is that he's always been so supportive of everything that I want to do.
00:34:54.320 Actually, actually, I'll take that back.
00:34:56.980 You have been very supportive of this career.
00:34:59.080 But every time I have a divergent dream, I'm like, oh, I want to start a biscuit company.
00:35:04.840 I want to open this kind of fitness place.
00:35:07.920 He's like, no, no, you're not doing that.
00:35:11.680 That's keeping you grounded.
00:35:12.540 Yes.
00:35:13.440 He does keep me grounded.
00:35:14.440 Keeping you focused is what that is.
00:35:15.500 Because like he said, I do have an entrepreneurial spirit.
00:35:18.200 I am really good.
00:35:20.240 I'll just say it.
00:35:21.080 I'm really good at coming up with ideas for businesses.
00:35:23.680 Like if you want an idea for a business, come to me.
00:35:26.040 Like I truly believe I'm one of those people that can that believes I like believe in you and I believe in people.
00:35:32.480 That's one of the things I love.
00:35:33.600 I like I love encouraging people and I love calling out people's talents and be like, this is the name of your company.
00:35:39.060 This is what you need to do.
00:35:40.800 And you just need to run for it.
00:35:42.540 Like I would love to just have a service where I do that for people.
00:35:47.140 But I also sometimes do that with myself.
00:35:49.060 I'm like, I have a great idea for biscuit cards.
00:35:52.480 And I really do have a good idea.
00:35:54.440 So if anyone wants to take that over, let me know.
00:35:57.500 But he is really good at saying like, you know, we need to stay on track.
00:36:01.200 Here are the good parts that you need to keep pursuing.
00:36:03.920 But as far as this media career, he has been so supportive.
00:36:09.520 And that's just not true of all guys.
00:36:13.020 Like I just think that marrying someone who is secure in himself and secure in his own strengths and strong and able to encourage me and has never been threatened by anything that I do or threatened by the fact that I'm super opinionated, that was really important to me.
00:36:31.140 And I've never felt that.
00:36:32.640 Again, I think that would cause resentment against between us.
00:36:35.580 Someone asked if you are as passionate about politics and stuff as I am.
00:36:42.540 I would say no, just because it's not what I do professionally.
00:36:45.360 So I don't, I'm not as passionate about it.
00:36:48.500 But am I, am I not up to date?
00:36:51.400 Or do I, do I not keep up with politics?
00:36:53.980 That's no either.
00:36:54.660 I mean, I do keep up with it.
00:36:56.800 And I do, I do read plenty about it.
00:37:00.520 And it does get me worked up and fired up for sure.
00:37:02.640 But I'm less opinionated about it.
00:37:04.940 I don't even know if that's true.
00:37:06.480 You do have a lot of opinions.
00:37:07.760 You might not tweet them.
00:37:08.920 Yeah, okay, yeah, for sure.
00:37:10.460 You do have a lot of opinions.
00:37:11.300 I tell them to you.
00:37:12.100 Yes, he does.
00:37:13.120 And thankfully, someone asked the question about like divergent or differing political views.
00:37:20.400 I think it would be hard.
00:37:21.640 If you're both passionate about politics, it would be hard to marry someone who has different views.
00:37:26.400 Now, if neither of you really care and you have some differences, okay.
00:37:30.740 But it would like, it would be hard for me.
00:37:33.000 To ever be, to ever have been with someone who wasn't a conservative.
00:37:38.400 Yeah, definitely.
00:37:39.360 But I got lucky because his entire family is conservative.
00:37:43.020 Okay, one question is, how do we honor God in marriage or keep Christ the center of our marriage?
00:37:51.580 Yeah, that's a good question.
00:37:53.580 I think, yeah.
00:37:54.580 It's something that we work to do and improve on, I would say, every day.
00:38:00.000 I've heard you say this before to the listeners, but trying to read particular things.
00:38:06.720 So we have a devotional, I don't read at night.
00:38:09.000 That's just like what you have to do to be centered, but I think it helps us.
00:38:12.820 And we try to read that almost every night.
00:38:15.380 And trying to be in the Word separately is really the key factor because it doesn't come down to what you can do together always.
00:38:25.640 Because at the end of the day, your relationship with Christ is a personal thing.
00:38:30.500 But then that will bleed into your marriage.
00:38:32.800 So if Christ is the center of your life, then Christ will be the center of your marriage just by proxy.
00:38:39.060 Yeah, and I think we also really try to talk to each other.
00:38:44.040 Not always, like we can definitely get better at this, but talk to each other about what the other person is learning.
00:38:50.180 And talk about how we can pray for the other person.
00:38:55.160 And he's always really good at if I'm worried about something or if I'm distressed about something.
00:39:00.560 Like we've been having a hard time in my family for the past couple of years.
00:39:05.720 And he's been really good about saying, okay, well, can I pray for you?
00:39:10.680 Or let's just pray about it right now.
00:39:12.460 Or just kind of starts praying.
00:39:14.300 That's not something that comes as naturally to me.
00:39:17.980 And he's been really good about that.
00:39:19.920 And I just always know that he is going to point me in that direction.
00:39:24.620 And I think that he feels the same way.
00:39:27.580 Yeah, another practical means just outside of the answers of praying and reading the Scripture together.
00:39:33.640 I feel like that's a common answer to that.
00:39:36.820 One that I've found has been beneficial is also relates back to an earlier question about money.
00:39:44.520 What you do with your money, how you give your money, knowing that money can drive certain behaviors in people
00:39:52.000 is a way to stay grounded and centered in Christ, I think.
00:39:55.840 And I find living within your means on a budget and giving generously and ferociously, I think,
00:40:02.280 has been or can be a key tenet to a thriving Christ-centered marriage.
00:40:08.400 Yeah, it feels good to be contributing to the same causes together and to say, okay,
00:40:14.240 we're making a difference in this area or to these people.
00:40:17.840 And we always agree on that.
00:40:20.020 We always decide, okay, this is how much we want to give and this is who we want to give to.
00:40:22.840 Not just financially either, it's just service, serving other people and serving other groups.
00:40:27.000 I think it can help not only you as a person, but then together with your spouse and we'll help your marriage out.
00:40:32.740 Yeah, and that's something, all of these things are areas that we can improve on and are improving on all the time.
00:40:38.900 We certainly don't have it figured out.
00:40:40.180 For sure, yeah.
00:40:41.040 Okay, last question.
00:40:42.620 There's so many questions that we didn't get to, and so we'll just have to do this again because, thankfully, he can't get away from me.
00:40:49.540 He's married to me, and so he's permanent podcast guest.
00:40:52.700 Sorry.
00:40:53.860 So we'll get to some more questions hopefully in a future episode.
00:40:57.320 But last question, what is your favorite part about being married?
00:41:02.740 Favorite part about being married?
00:41:04.220 Yeah.
00:41:04.380 It's going to be a little cheesy, but having your best friend at your house constantly is pretty cool.
00:41:11.500 Like, being able to be like, okay, I want to watch a movie.
00:41:15.340 Oh, somebody else will watch a movie with me.
00:41:17.500 Yeah.
00:41:17.800 Most likely.
00:41:18.680 Sometimes you won't because you have work or something or vice versa.
00:41:22.040 Yeah, same thing with you.
00:41:23.040 But whenever you're going into your endeavors.
00:41:24.480 Especially with sports.
00:41:25.060 Spring is tough for movie watching.
00:41:27.440 Oh, yeah.
00:41:27.460 It is.
00:41:27.860 Because there's always a sport that he needs to watch.
00:41:29.900 I mean, basketball is winding down.
00:41:31.600 Baseball is starting up.
00:41:32.740 Golf is in full swing.
00:41:33.880 Yeah, literally.
00:41:36.660 But, I mean, even in that, though, I mean, that's my favorite thing, too.
00:41:40.300 Even in that, like, I mean, I don't really like watching sports that much, especially not basketball.
00:41:45.360 But I love just being in his presence.
00:41:48.520 I really do.
00:41:49.440 Like, if I'm doing something else, if I have to work on my computer, I don't want to go in my room.
00:41:53.180 I don't want to go in another room by myself.
00:41:55.540 Like, I just like being with him.
00:41:57.560 Like, I genuinely hate when he leaves for work.
00:42:00.260 And it's good because I wouldn't get anything done because we would just be hanging out all day.
00:42:04.860 But I just love hanging out with him.
00:42:07.720 And just the freedom of being married.
00:42:12.120 It's different than being boyfriend and girlfriend and living together.
00:42:15.560 We did not live together before we were married.
00:42:17.520 But it's different than that because you have this security that no matter what, at your very worst, no matter how freaking annoying you are.
00:42:28.080 I mean, people just go through, like, annoying stages of life.
00:42:30.640 It's like, wow, you've just been really annoying about that one thing recently.
00:42:33.800 Whatever it is.
00:42:34.380 I'm talking about myself here.
00:42:36.060 But that person, they're not going to leave.
00:42:39.260 Like, in a Christian marriage, like, it is to have and to hold from this day forward, sickness and health, rich or poor, whatever it is.
00:42:47.080 The only thing that separates you is death.
00:42:49.480 And having that assurance, waking up to that person every morning, having that constancy and that unconditional love.
00:42:56.360 I say, too, I tell people this all the time.
00:42:59.120 Sorry, I know I'm going long.
00:43:00.220 But there's just a lot that I love about being married to him.
00:43:03.880 I don't think that I would have started what I do.
00:43:08.420 I don't think I would have had the confidence to do what I do without him.
00:43:11.980 And it's not because he was constantly telling me, hey, you need to start something.
00:43:15.580 But just because he gives me confidence just in his unconditional love of me that I have never felt like I'm too much.
00:43:22.080 Like, I'm not enough.
00:43:23.140 Like, I need to be a certain way.
00:43:24.540 Like, I need to look a certain way.
00:43:26.020 Like, I need to act a certain way or to impress him in a certain regard.
00:43:31.500 I've never felt like that.
00:43:32.800 I've always felt like this person loves me for everything that I am.
00:43:36.260 He knows everything to know about me that I even know to know.
00:43:41.260 And he loves me and doesn't judge me and it's just unconditional support.
00:43:47.600 And because of that, I have so much confidence to do the things that I do because I have that anchor.
00:43:56.120 You always have a cheerleader whenever, like, in this marriage or in a marriage, you know, you have somebody that's there to support you, there to love you.
00:44:05.540 But they're also to, like, give you a swift kick if you need it.
00:44:08.680 And you're like, hey, I'm in a funk right now.
00:44:12.080 Can you remind me of who I am?
00:44:13.960 Or, like, you would just naturally do that.
00:44:15.560 Just be like, okay, this is who you are.
00:44:16.800 This is what you have.
00:44:18.280 This is who you are in Christ.
00:44:19.360 And knowing that you can still get over and still accomplish the things that you need to accomplish, no matter how you're feeling, really.
00:44:27.320 Yeah.
00:44:27.660 We both do that for each other.
00:44:29.440 We both try to remind each other, like, you have so much potential and so much talent.
00:44:34.980 And God has given you so much, and you need to use it.
00:44:39.640 We try to encourage each other to be good stewards of all the things that God has graciously given us.
00:44:45.040 Sometimes we're stupid, and we spend three hours watching Netflix instead.
00:44:48.280 Yeah.
00:44:48.580 Spend three hours watching Netflix, order food from somewhere.
00:44:51.680 Like, it definitely happens.
00:44:53.240 We're not.
00:44:53.620 Yeah.
00:44:54.420 We try to encourage each other in discipline.
00:44:57.080 Um, but, yeah, I just, I love being married.
00:45:01.660 It's the best.
00:45:02.500 It's really great.
00:45:04.140 Uh, okay.
00:45:04.980 Well, I guess that's a good note to end on.
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