Hello friends and welcome back to the podcast this is but what's next with me

Michelle Reed I'm so happy that you're listening today on this Monday today's

podcast episode is all about things that I didn't expect about getting married and

also just kind of tips if you are engaged things to talk about before marriage

and kind of prepping for marriage. I've done a podcast on things I learned from like the first week, but that was kind of more of an announcement that I married, kind of sharing a few things, but I wanted this one to be just really tangible and helpful because one of the questions that I get the most kind of questions about is all about being engaged.

How do you know that someone's the one? How do you know that you're ready for marriage?

And so I thought it would be really informative to really think even though we've only been married for a few months.

And I just want to acknowledge that we do not know everything.

And I also just want to acknowledge that I'm not an expert.

I'm not a marriage counselor, not any of these things.

These are just things from my personal experience

at getting married at 22, what I've learned so far

and our engagement process, things we talked about, and kind of setting

yourself up for a healthy marriage.

I talk about a lot of different things in this, kind of family histories, getting to know someone in their expectations of you.

I also talk a little bit about kind of sex and intimacy in this, not in like a graphic way, but

just kind of the meaning of it in light of marriage. I also just want to preface if you guys don't know I think most people who

listen regularly do know but I am a Christian and so all of these things are

kind of in the lens of my faith as a Christian, someone who believes that Jesus Christ is my Lord and my Savior.

And this is also the faith that Aidan has as well.

And so I can never talk about these things

without mentioning my faith because they're so intertwined and I know here and

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