My boyfriend and I are moving in together soon, and I am so grateful for the wisdom your podcast has given us, especially in this transition to living together! I appreciate you sharing your stories and helping us as we continue down a path towards our future together. ❤️

@beautywearsboots6458

2 жыл бұрын

My (now) fiance and I moved in together right around when they started the pod. So helpful! I would highly recommend reading the 5 love languages book as a couple also. Shawn and Andrew talk a lot about love languages, but the book is so good! We did the audio book on a road trip and it was such a fun way to start some powerful conversations. It's a tough transition. Be prepared to feel all the feelings and learn so much about each other and yourselves. But if you are consuming this kind of content, then you're probably very well prepared to put in the work to build a beautiful partnership. I wish you both the absolute best!!!

Bring Mike onto the show!! As someone who’s heading off to college soon, it is especially enlightening and refreshing to have role models who are rooted in faith and integrity. I love seeing how you two have honored one another before the relationship even began. I hope to find someone someday who will honor me like Mike has honored his future wife and like you two have honored each other! ❤️

@skatedog8233

3 жыл бұрын

Amen to that!

I saw your couple things come up on my screen and immediately went to watch it. you both are so authentic to what marriage and life with children are like I love your honesty and commitment to each other and to let us all share your journey

I love this I was pregnant many moons ago. Lol and my ex husband took on a new role while I was pregnant and that was cheating with my best friend. My heart was broke ..I had a baby..a home..in nursing school and couldnt keep it all had to make drastic changes.. I am so glad you all are making it work and love each other. Remember thru life there is many..many major life events but just being able to love each other thru it means so much..I finally had another happy ending after meeting someone who loved this child and me thru everything. ..love you guys GOD BLESS

Shawn completely nailed it on the head. You are absolutely correct. People think sex means they love me. No sex can easily be done with anyone for a moment of pleasure and you can completely not give a crap about that persons feelings or who they are. It should be used to bring a connection together after you have gotten to truly know someone.

@geno5169

2 ай бұрын

I totally agree with you! Intimacy doesn’t have mean sex! I only wish my wife would show her affection! Her intimate nature back like in our early years of marriage! It feels so good for me to show her! Give her a romantic kiss in our kitchen! Stopping her in a room to give her hug with a kiss! I enjoy drying her when she comes out of the shower!

I love listening to this show and recently got my husband (we were just married 2 months ago!) into it as well so now we listen together! We usually talk about how the topics relate to us and often comment on how we would love to hear more biblical references and reasons behind things. We both became Christians in college and it seems that you both are Christians as well, so we’d love to hear more about your stories and how Christ influences you both daily! Also, we just got tickets to see you all in Indianapolis and are so excited about it!!

As I was listening to Shawn talk about pregnancy and intimacy I completely thought back to how I felt with my two pregnancies. I felt so lonely and not myself and it is hard to think you can have those feelings when you are growing a human inside you. I have never talked to my husband about how I felt during pregnancy and postpartum because I thought it was me with the problem. Sharing your story and being honest about how pregnant makes you feel makes me feel like I am the same as women all over the world and like I can tell him about it now.

Just a thought on the “when to have babies question.” I think there is huge benefit to giving yourselves time to grow and understand each other. But I also think that people shouldn’t be anxious if they get pregnant right away because it’s also a beautiful thing to grow your relationship through that process. My parents had us young and it was challenging for them but they always told me that it was super cool to get to learn how to do life together as parents. Hope this makes sense! Love your podcasts!

There are so many people who need to hear about these topics me included. Thank you guys so much for not being afraid to share your story and the truth with your views. You guys are such an inspiration for us. Thank you so much again!

I absolutely love the perspective of looking at it as a phase and temporary. I had a really hard time with that after my son was born. But my husband did a great job in helping me through that, and I finally feel like we are back in track.

Once I saw your new video on couples things I definitely watched it I love all your videos and all your thoughts on everything you all talk about, it definitely helps me mentally and physically and I appreciate you both so much, thank you both so much

One of the best episodes! And I love the way you two word everything with care ❤️

Love to listen and watch these conversations with you all. Thank you so much for sharing! It’s interesting, Shawn, that you feel disconnected while pregnant- I felt more intimate feelings during both of my pregnancies and my husband didn’t feel comfortable being physical during the last 4-5 months of my second pregnancy. Crazy how each person can go through their own experiences and they can be entirely different than the next person. Much love and respect to you and your family!!❤️

👏👏 Cannot like this episode enough! So good, guys!! I laughed! I shook my head as I have felt the very same things Shawn was talking about. I clapped in agreement at other points as if you guys were preachers. All the things! Y'all are awesome!

I love how much he appreciated these talks. I wish my hubby and I could talk so in depth about a variety of topics

@lavudyalakupathi2221

3 жыл бұрын

I'll send u a mail

I’m so glad you’re putting out another vedio on intimacy! Love these kind of vedio’s! Thank you 🙏!! I enjoy watching your videos

I really like your discussions. I like how relatable your relationship is.

Love listening to you both and how you both together hear each other. Your wisdom and communication in your young marriage is wise beyond your years. Sadly enough some marriages never figure this out. It's hard when you have a spouse who will not communicate openly and dig deep to make things better

This is such an amazing, purposeful, well spoken conversation! ♥️ great job y’all.

I HAVE BEEN DYING TO HEAR THIS ONE AGAIN!!!!

I was once told that making love wasn't about the physical touch of sex, you can make love without having sex. I had to think about that for a long time and to grab hold of it, but when I did it opened my mindset on a whole new level of love & love making. It's not at all about the performance of the act it's about the conversations that can come out of just being together whether it's being intimate or just lying in bed holding hands, talking, crying & laughing. Also, I always had two rules for my bedroom. One there would never be a TV in there A TV can be a make it or break it moment for a relationship, now I did have a radio in my room because a little music can go a long ways in a romance. Two, never fight in the bedroom, it's a safe haven where you come together in love & rest only. Loads of Love!

Intimacy during pregnancy and postpartum were pretty easy for me, but I’m also a very physical person (my love language is physical touch). There is such a wide range of emotions and feelings surrounding pregnancy and postpartum intimacy and that’s ok!

Love your perspective and appreciate how you approaches the subject

Thank you so much for sharing your story. You guys are wonderful.

Thanks for the great sound quality! So appreciate not straining to hear.

You guys are adorable....love the style and how you guys are relatable.

This might be your best vedio you two! Loving the intimacy topic

I really appreciate Andrew bringing up pregnancy and having young children being a phase in the relationship and that those things don't have to define the entire relationship, it can just define that phase. My boyfriend is on deployment right now, which is a phase, but being in it feels like FOREVER while I am in it. This was a very good reminder for me in that. Thank you.

These guys are so great 😍

I love this so much 💗

Great conversation!!! I think a conversation about intimacy always includes vulnerability.

My 3 year old son just walked in and said, "Her hair good. I like her hair!" Soo looking good Shawn! 😆

I relate so much to the disconnection between yourself and your husband - especially postpartum for me. It’s definitely a difficult season but for anyone going through that…it gets better! 🤍 Love this conversation!

I can totally relate to feeling like my body is no longer my own while pregnant. With my two pregnancies, but the time I got to my 3rd trimester I would just sit in the shower and cry. Most women don’t talk about the negatives of being pregnant but I appreciate you being completely open about this. Doesn’t mean you or any other woman isn’t grateful for the gift of being able to carry a child, but there are some not so fun things to the process.

@detraed8962

3 жыл бұрын

Your body isn't even your own when on your period, so with pregnancy that's that times 10..

Your a great couple of motivaters for the public.

Andrew and Shawn I am elated. Our lil man is here. I can't wait to hear all about him and see how you are doing.love love love.

23:00 favorite part of the video Bible study s2 you guys are the best ;*

More of these please!

I love watching this vlog....you are both young but so insightful and well spoken....funny goes without saying ( hit it like rabbits lol )....its nice to see respectful young people in this world we live in...we need more people like you....take a page from Shawn and Andrew young people out there....they're on the right path

I think for both marriage and babies, being "ready" has to do a lot with being ready to quit being selfish. When you're ready to stop doing things only for yourself, you can fully commit to a spouse; when you and your spouse are ready to stop being just you guys, you can commit to adding to the family equation.

Shawn I loved this episode of the bachelor too and I thought the same thing when they were leading up to this I was so nervous for Mike and just felt so disappointed in the show for making a mockery of sex. When Mike did his speech I had the same reaction as Andrew “I got the chills” I also started tearing up. Great episode thank you

You got this!

Good one.

I was watching Colleen Ballinger yesterday and she was so upset and crying that she doesn't feel herself that she can't even look at herself. She loves her babies but her body is not her own anymore.

@NL-tk1ou

3 жыл бұрын

I would LOVE for them to talk more about this, I feel like its a part of pregnancy that is almost never highlighted but impacts every aspect of the life of the pregnant person

Dont feel guilty Shawn… It’s big what you and your body are doing. You have the best husband. Don’t feel guilty ♥️

I just want to say thank you for being a positive couple with Godly values & convicted TRANSPARENT morals expressed because it is helping me on feeling hopeful that there are good loyal honest Godly men out there after just having experienced the opposite. I’m so happy watching hearing learning ur guys story:)

@tldawns

3 жыл бұрын

Question, what is your guys opinions on the variants of men being turned on visually by other women when the man is in a relationship with a woman? I just am super curious on people’s opinions on this since I just experienced an extreme upset from being in a relationship w a guy who was obsessed with every women online saving instagram pics etc & in person gawking flirting. Trying to now just get a healthy perspective for myself moving forward because it hurt soo bad & I don’t want to be with anyone that is like that. But trusting that there are (if there are?) men who are just wanting to be with one woman & not going to think about others isn’t what I’m believing right now. Thanks so much. God bless all ur beautiful family so inspiring:)!!

@sharondavis6322

2 жыл бұрын

@@tldawns I want to encourage you that there are good moral and godly men out there! I have four sons that are waiting for godly wives. 😏

when u truly love someone u love them.no matter what u go through.( not abuse tho of any kind) .

Mike reminded me of the character Dorian on a Different World when he announced to Lena that he was saving sex until marriage. It was a beautiful and powerful scene 🙂

The make up sex comes after the apology/ reconciliation. It’s the passion that comes along with realizing that neither one of us want to fight and our silly argument isn’t worth the heartache. Who wants to continue an argument when you can just say I’m sorry and embrace your partner and be intimate together. Also, Andrew…Shawn did say she wants to try the make up sex approach in the future so keep that in mind ❤️

Living together is for marriage only with God's blessing between a man and a woman 🙏❤

shawn and andrew since my husband had 3 heart attacks started at his age of 48 sex has neen pretty much off the table but i love him just as much as i ever did and we make ut work.marrige is forever.i get upset when people divorce over sex( cant do it re health) because marriage is so important and more than just sex altjough i do agree sex is important fin and great if its no longer possible .....u find a way to express love....❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Can you please activate CC? Thanks.

just saying.😁👍👏❤

I very much disliked the pregnancy process, and my husband and I had been trying to conceive for 4 years. I just could not wait to meet my new best buddy! Once I found out I was pregnant I just wanted my baby there instantly and to skip the next 9 months.

Instead of saying Sex..Let's call it what it is.."Making Love"🥰

Loved this!!! I completely agree with y'all! The world wants us to look at sex in a different way than it was meant to be. God made sex to be shared between husband and wife. When it's not done in that way, I agree with Shawn, it's backwards. When a man waits on a woman til marriage, it puts value there. I felt valued that my husband waited on me. And after 21 years of marriage,it just gets better and better!!! Great show!!

Courious, do your love langusges have an affect on your intimacy?

Shawn saying she has a hard time because she feels high jacked even with emotional intimacy! I feel that soooooo hard! I am 20 weeks pregnant after going through a miscarriage! And I feel sooooo consumed by my symptoms and my body and everything going on, that sometimes my husband gets the short end of the stick.....

@detraed8962

3 жыл бұрын

You can't help your hormones. They guide us like crazy. It may be our body's way of protecting us and the baby and everything else. I feel pregnancy is like a rest stage, whether people understand that or not and it's nature's way of of slowing a woman down so she's not overactive in order to protect the child. The way she gets tired, moody etc. Hopefully the guy understands that.

Hey Shawn and Andrew! I don't know how you choose couples to interview on your podcast, but with the olympics almost upon us, I was thinking that it would be so cool if you could interview Mykayla Skinner and Jonas Harmer once she's home from Tokyo!

I agree with giving’ showing intimacy without sex! Then see what happens to play!

Yes sex is a part of a relationship but what about when one partner doesn't want to engage at all? Can a marriage survive without sex? There is affection and love but no passion. One relationship theory says you need all aspects in order to be successful. What do you think?

I love love being ‘ showing my intimacy towards my wife! I’ve seen myself grown to show my wife more intimate affection! In our marriage! My wife used to be able to shower me with a lot of intimacy! Her affection! It feels like her intimacy isn’t there for me as I love to give it! We’ll be celebrating 33 years together of our marriage next month!! I find myself with my love’ my affection is more stronger for her

Have an interview with Vanessa Marin, and her husband Xander! She’s a sex therapist. I think she would have another side to intimacy and how people connect.

Sex is fun, but it is the easiest part of the relationship. There's a reason that the divorce rate is over 50% in this country, and it's not because of sex; sadly, in such an era of narcissism, couples forget that their roles are to be there for one another, that their days should start by asking "What can I do today to make her day better?" If couples can think of one another first, the phases are survivable. Easy? No. Worth it? Oh, yes.

You only married 4 or 5 years still on honeymoon, let see in 10 years if it goes that long..Andrew will only take soo long of iit .he's only pleasing Shawn right now!!!

I tell my wife my love tank is getting low! So I need some romance! Some affection from her! To help fill my tank again!

Aw. That IS SAD! Sex during pregnancy is fantastic!! But we like it all the time, so...

Broach some new topics?

A big lie,Andrew is a man and young, he had no choice, but it won't last....