Marriage After Addiction: Take Back Your Life Together

The Naked Marriage with Dave & Ashley Willis

XO Marriage

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Relationships

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Welcome back to the Naked Marriage Podcast with Dave & Ashley Willis! In today’s episode, we’re sitting down with Eric and Kristin Kennedy to dive deep into their incredible journey through recovery and how addiction has shaped their relationship. They opened up about their love story—the highs, the lows, and everything in between—and how they’ve learned to stand by each other with respect and support through the toughest times. We also get a peek into Eric’s new book, *Marriage After Addiction*, which is all about helping couples who are facing addiction find hope and healing. This conversation is packed with real talk, honesty, and encouragement for anyone walking a similar path. We hope you find it as inspiring as we did! ----------------- For all links mentioned in the episode & more XO content, visit https://linktr.ee/nakedmarriage ---------------- Chapters 00:00 Introduction to the Naked Marriage Podcast 01:00 The Journey of Recovery and Sobriety 02:25 Love Story: Eric and Kristin's Connection 08:47 Navigating Relationships with Addiction 16:03 The Importance of Mutual Respect in Recovery 19:08 Introducing the Book: I Do Recover 23:56 The Resource for Couples in Recovery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Introducing Laseldisei by Issemyake, a tribute to today's masculinity that gives men the desire to live intensely,
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0:28.0	Issemyake.
0:29.0	Hello and welcome back to the Naked Marriage Podcast we are Dave and Ashley Willis and on this
0:36.6	podcast we address the truth about sex intimacy and lifelong love and if you are watching
0:41.9	on YouTube which I hope you are for those of you who are listening you might want to watch because this is going to be a great conversation we had dear friends of ours with us in the studio and Dave is going to tell you all about them.
0:52.0	That's right, Eric and Kristen Kennedy, two of my favorite people. They really, really are. I had the privilege of officiating their wedding. Yeah, you did. How many years ago was that? May it will be 10 years.
1:04.2	10 years? What? A decade ago a decade. And you guys haven't aged. I look 20 years
1:08.9	older. You look the same.
1:10.9	Seriously. My hair got longer.
1:12.0	Well since. Same. My hair got longer. Well, since then, they've had a beautiful daughter.
1:17.0	Their family has just grown.
1:19.0	Their influence has grown.
1:21.0	And they, they're just amazing, authentic, incredible credible people I'm honored to get to work
1:24.8	alongside Eric at Stephen's Creek Church and and just do life with them in that way
1:29.8	but today we're going to talk specifically about a new resource that I'm so incredibly
1:36.0	excited about. XO is his partner with Eric to kind of help share his story and
1:40.0	through his story create a resource to help anybody in recovery or struggling with
1:43.4	addiction, them or their spouse.
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