090: Walking Through the Seasons of Your Marriage with Debra Fileta

Debra Fileta is a wife of nearly 13 years, mom of 3, licensed professional counselor specializing in relationships, podcaster, author, and runs the relationship advice blog True Love Dates. She joins me on the show today to share about her newest book, Love in Every Season: Understanding the Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, and how we can make the most of each season of our relationships. What She Chats about in Today's Episode: ~Debra's new book,  Love in Every Season: Understanding the Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, what led her to write it, and what readers can expect ~What the four seasons of spring, summer, fall, and winter represent in relationships, and how we can navigate those well ~Planting seeds in the spring of your relationship, shedding your layers and being vulnerable in the hot season of summer, the season of fall when your true colors start to shine through, and the season of winter, where things begin to cool down a bit emotionally ~Conflict as an opportunity ~What compatibility is, and what it is not ~The wrong view we have of typical, normal marriage of always being in the season of winter ~The reality that each season is necessary and lays the foundation for the next season; how this has proven true in Debra's own marriage ~What God's job is in the hard seasons of marriage of making a way in the wilderness, and what our job is of just moving forward ~The reality of God working in and through our day-to-day lives, and how we can apply that reality to marriage ~Romance in marriage ~And more! For full shownotes, head to www.hargraveshomeandhearth.com/podcast