Keeping your Marriage Merry during Christmas
"All I want for Christmas is you..."
If Mariah Carey lived in our house she might have rewritten her classic song lyrics to say, "All I want for Christmas is you ...not overspend...help with the shopping and wrapping and cooking and cleaning...tell your family that's not going to work for us this year..."
Christmas is (supposed to be ;)) the most wonderful time of the year but it can also turn us into the Grinch if we aren't intentional about keeping the merry, or should we say "marry", in the holiday season.
That's the topic of this week's An Intentional Marriage podcast episode. We'd love for you listen in to our conversation about our own Christmases past and laugh with us as we share our thoughts on how to not act like a Scrooge when it comes to holiday spending and more!
No one wants to be the Grinch or married to Scrooge so let's be intentional about communicating and staying connected this Christmas season. Together we can enjoy the holiday one...Marriage Minute Monday at a time.
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