The Art of Cherishing

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

**JOIN US FOR OUR 2024 COUPLES' RETREAT!** Too often, we enter marriage with expectations of what it will provide for us, without fully understanding the promise we are actually making—to love someone who is dramatically different from us. When we first fall in love, this seems easy enough, but as we face the difficulties that come when two individuals start the real work of creating a life together, resentment, anger, and even hostility can creep in. In this NEW episode Dr. Finlayson-Fife joins Dan Purcell of the Get Your Marriage On! podcast to answer the question of what it means to really cherish a spouse. Dr. Finlayson-Fife's answer leads to a beautiful discussion on the importance of gratitude, what love is and what it is not, and the impact that deliberate cherishing has in our lives and in our relationships. The episode offers practical advice on how to live in gratitude, be more present in relationships, and navigate conflicts with integrity and love. Listen to the full episode to learn more about: The difference between needing, wanting, and cherishing a spouse How marriage reveals our own immaturities Why cherishing requires courage How to move beyond feelings of resentment and entitlement What it means to actively choose your partner

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0:00.0	to cherish your life is to live in gratitude for the fact that you get to live it,
0:04.4	that you're here at all.
0:05.9	It's very easy to think about all the things that went wrong today,
0:09.4	but the fact that you were able to wake up
0:11.9	is a privilege that a lot of people didn't have today.
0:14.9	And you were given the gift of a day and people in your life that you take for granted because it's
0:21.3	our default.
0:22.6	But if you could imagine losing them suddenly, right?
0:25.9	How deeply your life would be devastated, right?
0:29.2	And so it's just allowing your gratitude and the acknowledgement of relationships, sexuality, and more, all featuring Dr. Finlayson Fife.
0:58.0	Hello my friend and welcome to the special episode of the Get Your Marriage on
1:05.9	podcast. We have reached a major milestone today with episode number 200.
1:11.0	Can't believe it. I didn't think that when I started this
1:14.2	podcast I'd be releasing an episode every week consecutively for 200 weeks on
1:19.9	something to do with sex and intimacy in marriage.
1:23.7	Now I've been looking forward to releasing this episode
1:26.6	and I wanted it to be extra special, something different than any other episode I've released
1:30.6	so far.
1:31.6	And while pondering that a few months ago, a tragedy has
1:35.2	struck our family. My wife's cousin, she's a very bubbly, very happy person,
1:41.6	29 years old, three kids ages 7, 4 and 1.
1:45.0	She went jogging with some friends on a Monday morning like she usually does,
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