24. What Do You Believe About Mixed Faith Marriages?

Here I ask a series of questions to explore what you believe about your mixed faith marriage. Your brain is a powerful tool that will bring you evidence to support your belief system. Are you setting yourself up for success or suffering with your current belief system?

23. Selfish

Selfishness is often at the root of many marriage problems. Here I challenge a common definition of selfish and suggest an alternative one.

22. Grief Cycle

A faith transition and a mixed faith marriage may cause you to feel grief and loss. Maybe you have experienced the loss of your same faith marriage, loss of community, loss of standing in that community, loss of family traditions and foundations. It can be helpful to take a look at the grief cycle in this context to help you navigate all the emotions. Here I talk about how the grief cycle applies to a Mormon mixed faith marriage.

21. Boundaries (Part I)

Boundaries can be an important part of a mixed faith marriage and participating in a mixed faith extended family. Here I talk about the difference between a boundary and a request and how to implement a boundary.

20. Fear

In this short but important episode I talk about fear. Fear can present as a series of questions with very scary answers. Fear can undermine how we show up. And it doesn’t have to.

19. Being on the Same Page

I hear a lot that it is important to be on the same page in a marriage, especially in parenting. Here I discuss that for many having different faith journeys is an example of not being in the same page. This can cause incredible pain. One approach is to look closer at the belief that you and your spouse need to be in the same page. That belief may be hurting more than helping.

18. Passive Agressive

Acting in a passive aggressive way is unfortunately common in a mixed faith marriage. Here I tell you about common ways passive aggression may appear in a marriage and why we often default to it.

17. Phases of a Mixed Faith Marriage

There are often several phases that are part of a mixed faith marriage. Here I talk about the – Ignore it and Hope it Goes Away Phase, The Walking in Eggshell Phase and Why Can’t They Just Change Phase (among others). There is also a Happily Ever After phase. It’s also known as acceptance.

15. Foregiveness

Here I talk about how to deal with those painful things our spouse’s sometimes dish out to us in a mixed faith marriage.