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How Having Kids Really Changes Your Marriage—Resentment, Intimacy & Choosing Each Other (with My Husband Mike)
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Married couple of almost 9 years with 4 kids gets honest about what parenthood really did to their marriage—the resentment, the loneliness, and what saved them.
Today I have my husband Mike on the podcast—and we're going there.
We've been married almost 9 years. We have 4 kids ages 6, 4, 2, and 6 months. We've had no family help for 6 years. And there have been seasons where we almost lost each other in the chaos of parenthood.
This is the conversation most couples are too afraid to have out loud.
What we cover:
- What our marriage was like before kids
- The hardest season of our marriage
- Feeling alone—and how loneliness shows up differently for each of us
- How resentment crept in
- The invisible mental load
- How intimacy changed after 4 kids
- What actually helped
- The biggest mindset shift
- What we're still figuring out
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