Nick StumboExecutive Director driving healing from sexual brokenness

Your marriage can only be as healthy as you are #podcast #puredesirepodcast

19 Jul 2023

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A short transcript excerpt from a July 2023 podcast conversation (Nick Stumbo and another speaker) arguing that a marriage's health is constrained by the individuals in it — 'your marriage can only be as healthy as you are' — and that marriage does not automatically fix individual problems such as addiction or eating disorders. The speakers emphasize personal responsibility and working on individual issues within the relationship context.

There's a little statement that we have had for a long, long time, and we say that your marriage can only.
Be as healthy.
As you are. Now, a.
More harsh way of saying that is your.
Marriage can only be.
As healthy as the least healthy.
Person in it. And so.
If there's an addiction like.
Pornography or gambling.
Or there's struggles with.
Things like an.
Eating disorder or what.
Have you, you know, you want to work on who you are in the context of that.
Relationship.
And so getting married does not instantly heal that.
It doesn't make.
It easier or change that you are still the same person.