Welcome back to the Marriage Day podcast. I'm your co-host Jimmy Evans. Today, we have

a special episode for you, and we're giving you a preview of one of our other great podcasts

at Exo Marriage. The Creative Marriage with Ed and Lisa Young exists to talk about the

art of keeping your love alive no matter what life throws at you. Ed and Lisa are some

of my dear friends. I know you'll enjoy their show. For more from Ed and Lisa Young, check

out the Creative Marriage podcast. Hi, we're Ed and Lisa Young, and this is the Creative

Marriage podcast. We're so happy to be with you today. We're just going to talk about what

life throws at your marriage and how to deal with it successfully because it's all about

creativity. That's right. Basically, the question should not be how I become creative.

It should be what are the blockades that are keeping me as an individual and as a spouse

from unleashing the kind of creativity that God has for our lives because people talk

about romance. Really, it's creativity. We want our marriages to just shine above any other

marriage because of the creativity reflecting what God has built and poured into us. He's

God is a creative God and he wants us to be creative in our marriages. Today, Ed, we're

following up on creatively communicating during conflict. We talked about the number of

issues that marriages face with conflict. We talked about money, housework and chores,

children and family, physical intimacy, and then just sometimes people are arguing

about nothing. It's more about the emotions that they bring into the situation. They're

upset about something that may have happened three hours ago, but it's still resonating

and they bring that conflict to the spouse and blame them. We always need to say that.

I remember when we wrote this section, I remember thinking, I wonder if I can't

alliterate this. I love alliteration. I don't know why I just do. Is that because you're

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