The Real Marriage Podcast

It almost sounds like an outdated word.

What does modesty look like is 2023?  Is it even something worth focusing on?

In part two of our "Set Apart" series we dive into this topic.  You will hear Griff…

The longer we are married the deeper our conversations get about who we want to become.  

We talk a lot about our foundation, the growth areas of our lives and what we truly care the most about.

For us…

Whether it is at work, with kids and parents, your faith and any other relationship you can think of we all prefer values more than rules.  

No one wants to be dictated to or forced to follow a rigid …

There is a difference between being busy and being fruitful.  

Life is jam-packed.  You've noticed that there aren't enough hours in the day and that you always have more to get done.  

The tendency is…

Have you ever been told you are too emotional?

What about hearing that you don't show enough emotion?  Most likely, your emotional makeup is different between you and your spouse.  One of you wears th…

Do you have clutter in your life? 

As the weeks and months fly by it becomes so easy to get busy and overwhelmed with everything.  We get farther away from what our goals were at the beginning of the …

The real reason we feel like we have a successful and growing marriage is because of God's involvement in our everyday lives.

We talk often about how God has led us or shown us something.  So, can you…

Last episode we tried to answer a common question people ask us.  How do you balance it all?

The truth is that it is very difficult.  It's a constant conversation of where we are lacking and how we sh…

One of the most common questions people ask us is how do you balance it all?

It's a great question and it's forced us to really think hard about how we approach all that we have going on in our lives…

Fights and disagreements happen for various reasons.  Whether it is stress induced, miscommunication, using the wrong tone at the wrong time, etc. conflict is just a part of the marriage equation. 

S…

It's been nine months since our last episode and so much has happened with the Gilstrap in that time.

Covid, new home, new job, new school for the kids and a new baby is just the beginning of our last…

In this episode Griffin and Heather give an update on their move to North Carolina and what that means for the future of The Real Marriage Podcast.  

Thank you for taking this journey with us!  We hop…

Your greatest strength is your greatest weakness.

At first glance it keep seem a bit odd.  But the more you think about personalities it makes total sense.  Your strength in one area of your life is g…

Stress can come unannounced.

Life seems to pile up the challenges quickly.  Circumstances can change in an instant and so many things can happen that you just aren't ready for. 

Griffin and Heather ha…

Ten years of marriage.

The old cliche is definitely true, time flies when you are having fun!  It feels like yesterday that Heather was hitting on Griffin on the first day of our freshman year at Stet…

Life is full of surprises!

We didn't anticipate taking a break this early in the year but so much has happened in March for our family.  As overwhelming as our two announcements are we feel incredibly…

Should your marriage make you happy?

It seems like an obvious answer.  I mean, we didn't get married to feel unhappy with someone for the next 50 years.  We want it to be fun and positive.  We want to…

"Rut" - A habit or pattern of behavior that has become dull and unproductive but is hard to change.

Yep, we've all been there.  Whether it's your job, your schedule, your marriage or even your parenti…