About the Married and Love It Podcast
On our weekly podcast, we will be covering anything that has to do with marriage including the hot topics of love, sex, and communication. We'll be sharing from our own experiences and what we have learned along the way through research and helping other couples. We want to provide preventive maintenance and strengthen the good marriages, freshen up stale or boring marriages, heal hurting or dying marriages, prepare people for marriage and stop divorce. Our goal is to hear you say that YOU are married and love it!
What We Teach
Greg and Linda teach about marriage in a fresh and practical way. They use God’s word as their foundation, as well as sharing from their own marriage experiences and from things they have learned along the way through research and helping other couples.
When teaching they don’t just give a fairytale dream, they give the practical “How To’s”. They let couples know that a successful marriage takes work and time. But the rewards are worth the investment.
A few of the topics they cover are love, communication, sex, romance, spouse roles and understanding each other's needs, basically, anything having to do with marriage. Greg and Linda don’t hold back when teaching. They are honest and tell it like it is.
Couples laugh, cry, and say “Oh, me”, “Oh, my” and “Amen” as they hear and learn about the marriage relationship. Couples look forward to applying what they have learned and anticipate learning more.
Fun, serious, practical, intense, informative, humorous, and honest describe Greg and Linda’s teachings.
Being married and loving it is the result.
Where It All Began
It all began at a dance disco for age 21 and under. Linda was still in high school, and Greg graduated High School in 1974. He finally asked her to dance after her friend approached him and said, "Linda wants to dance with you." So, he did. They were married in 1977 and now for the rest of the story........
Being married for over 46 years, with two grown children and grandchild, they have had plenty of opportunities to prove God's word true. They know a couple can be married and love it after all these years. How? Because they are experiencing it. Although it hasn't always been that way.
The First Ten Years
In the beginning things seemed fine and they were even called the All-American Couple but soon the marriage busters began to hit. Linda was badly burned from a grease fire requiring 3 years of plastic surgery; they miscarried their first baby; they had two children really close together; dealt with ministry and work-related situations; had relationship issues with each other; in-law problems, etc.
All of this occurred during the first 10 years of marriage. The bottom began to fall out and separation was inevitable. With God's help and their willingness to learn and change, healing for their marriage came, but with MUCH effort. It had to be on purpose.
Next 35 Years
Throughout most of their marriage they have been in ministry and business ownership together, creating a lot of pressure, which they have been able to overcome.
Here is a high-level overview of their next 35 years when the marriage busters came in and tried to derail them and their marriage and their calling to help people be married and love it.
One of these being that Greg was in a near death car accident in 1999 taking months to recover. During this 35-year time frame both of their parents passed away. In addition, Linda has had to deal with constant health challenges, the most serious ones beginning in 2013. Two major back surgeries, two hand surgeries, four eye surgeries, a near death heart attack resulting in five stents, and a full hip replacement. For a good portion of this time, she was in a wheelchair or used a walker. Thank God healing has progressed, and medical devices are not required. Living with chronic pain and being on daily pain medicine doesn't create a very exciting life and marriage.
During this time Greg has been her full-time caretaker while maintaining their business until it was lost creating huge financial pressure. Then Greg's dad moved in with them----enough said----which brought to the home a whole new dynamic. All of these marriage busters could have easily destroyed their marriage but did not.
The Foundation
They give credit to the things they learned and practiced which restored their marriage in the early years, as they established a strong foundation enabling them to get through these marriage busters and trusting God to work in these situations and their marriage.
Present Day
They are sharing their story so people can know that the marriage busters of life can be overcome. Also, that couples can establish a strong foundation to stand on or even rebuild their foundation if needed. They want to help couples to be able to say that they are married and love it---on purpose; and "You're still the one!"