Keeping Marriage Strong During Life Transitions

Show notes

About This Episode Our marriages are not exempt from the transitions and seasons of life. Returning after a year-and-a-half hiatus, Aaron and Jennifer recap a 10-month transition of selling their home, building a new one, and living nomadically across more than 30 places. They talk about unexpected circumstances and high-stress seasons, and how emotional breakdowns and dropped routines are not evidence of a weak marriage but a test of its strength. They credit prayer, friends, validation, and remembering they chose this path for carrying them through. When we walk through transitions together and with Christ, they become opportunities for our unity, strength, and faith to grow, because God cares more about our character than our comfort.

About Aaron & Jennifer Smith Aaron and Jennifer Smith are the founders of Marriage After God and authors of Husband After God, Wife After God, and Marriage After God. Married since 2007 and raising six children in Bend, Oregon, they started Husband Revolution and Unveiled Wife to share what God was teaching them, not from a place of having it figured out, but as fellow travelers pointing couples back to Jesus.

In This Episode Where they've been — selling a home, building a new one, and living in 30+ places A cross-country road trip — six to seven weeks on the road as a family Breakdowns aren't failure — hard seasons test the strength of a marriage What helped — prayer, friends, and validating each other's feelings Remember your choice — owning the path you chose together Count it all joy — living in the now and looking for what is commendable

Scripture Referenced Ecclesiastes 7:8-11; James 1:2-3; Philippians 4:8; Philippians 3:12

Resources from This Episode This Episode is brought to you by The Unveiled Wife. This is our first traditionally published book and in it we share those first four years of our marriage. It was definitely a strenuous and difficult time of our lives, one of our biggest transitions as we share the details of getting married … and what we faced was definitely unexpected. So in sharing about life transitions in todays episode we also wanted to give a shout out to this book as it dives deep into how we handled it all and how God led our hearts through those tough times. You can get The Unveiled Wife on Amazon.com Check out our marriage resources! Sponsors: Get our new book The Marriage Gift - 365 prayers for your marriage! Full show notes and blog post

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