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EPISODE #19 WHY DID I STAY WITH REVA HART · WOMEN MAJORING IN MARRIAGE

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Welcome to the women, majoring in marriage podcast with your
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host Janice L. Vance.
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Girl, if you are a married woman that desire is not just to have
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a surviving marriage, you know, the kind that's just on cruise
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control but actually want a thriving marriage.
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can inspire you to prepare for your marriage, before preparing,
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for that expensive, wedding day. Oh, and all my single ladies out
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there. There that are in their season
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of waiting on God, to send your husband.
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We've got something for you as well, girl, marriage is not
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hard, but it certainly is work. So relax.
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What happened? Well, welcome to all of my wings
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to the women major in marriage podcast with yours.
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Truly, Janice Vans, I want to thank you, ladies for continuing
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to rock with me. I see how you're listening to
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those podcasts. And my desire is that it one
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person, one person get blessed. Then it would not have been in
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vain. I am so thrilled to have a guest
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with me real. Heart I told you all.
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When I first started my podcast that I said, one day I want to
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invite years because I was just doing the podcast twice a month.
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I said, one day in God, just blessed answer my prayers and I
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have, I helped interview several ladies and have danced so much
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great feedback on their story because it is a blessed, one
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women come forth and say that they want to tell their story
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people. Are doing that more now than
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ever before. So many women have suffered in
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silence but now that they're seen and I'm hoping that if
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you're out there and you have a story that you will reach out to
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me as well, and I will send you a firm.
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And if your brake feed for my podcast, I would definitely
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definitely interview, but I want to introduce you all to this
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beautiful woman. Reba Hart.
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Reba Hart. Reba Hart is going to talk
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about. Why did I stay?
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And she's going to explain why she did not stay.
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That makes us all curious. Okay, Reba Hart is a wife of 28
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years to Miller car. She is a mother of five adult
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children. She is a leadership, mentor and
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story. Is that worse?
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Story work for work. I can't rely on.
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Write a story were killing coach that that is so often she meant
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to courageous women to men and prosper from their store.
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That's what I'm talking about. That's what I love that does so
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much. And lastly, I'm going to say
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about Rita, is she loved perfume?
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Hard conversations, no deep conversation you and I we could
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chat for a while. Those Hardy conversation And
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barely The Laughing. The barely ate laughs, and she
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loves to laugh. She loved to laugh.
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It is an honor and a privilege to me to have before me mrs.
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Riva hard, and she's gonna come at her own way.
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I told her to just do her, she just tell her story.
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However she feel that it will bless the audience and encourage
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others to not to sit down on their story.
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Riva is all in your hands. Oh, thank you so much mr.
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J. I just one thing reason.
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I give me say this, we then I would never ever met where you
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living in Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia in Atlanta, Georgia or
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even I have never met, she reached out to me after hearing
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a podcast and she said I would love to and she reached out to
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me and God led us here. You never met.
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And hopefully one day we'll be able to meet one day.
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We'll be able to get together meet each other.
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We're not that far from each other.
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Yeah. And we're Diana.
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We visit Atlanta, you know, that's not far.
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But anyway, I'm so glad she reached out to me.
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I am so glad she's obedient, and I know that you have something
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to share. So, just sit back and talk.
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Relax act. As if you sitting in my living
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room, we on the sofa. And we just check because you
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like them, our yes, I do. I do.
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Thank you so much mr. Janus, because your platform is
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definitely ministering to people to women.
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I was met introduce to you by way of your group, your women's
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group, your marriage group. I think someone, one of my one
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of my Facebook friends, you know, suggested that I get into
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your group and you are definitely Ministering and
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supporting women in marriage and I just love it, majoring in
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marriage. So when I started, she did the
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packets. I'm like yes this is amazing.
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It's amazing. It's the reached.
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So I'm thankful that I'm able to come and share a little bit of
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my marriage story. My husband and I have been
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together so long. We met When We Were Young, we
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grew up in the same neighborhood and community.
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And so I'm thankful that we're still here and that God's grace
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and mercy was sufficient for us. Thank you.
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Lord, but I may just podcast why I stay because I believe that as
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I share my story and I believe that as women listening to your
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podcast, that they're going to hear this podcast, they going to
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start listening to more of your other stories.
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That's on that podcast, but it's going to encourage them.
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It's going to encourage, women are in the Deep throws a
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marriage betrayal, because that is my story.
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So I really believe that women are going to be encouraged.
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I got to get some hope and not feel like they and alone.
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Even though, marriage betrayal, there's nothing new right, when
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you're in it, you feel like you alone, right?
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Right. You feel like you're alone.
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And so I wanted to talk about my story from the aspect of why I
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stayed. Why did I Stay?
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It was hard but I stayed. And so, my story starts with the
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fact that it was a horror story before we got married.
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It was a horror story before I got married.
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Now, I don't want to skip over the fact I did.
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I was thinking I was like, Lord, I really want to make sure that
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I share in the beginning that God makes a way of Escape.
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Wow. God makes a way of escape.
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And so, to choose to stay and and allow the Redemptive - of
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the Redemptive power of God to work in.
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Your marriage is hard. It's harder to stay than it is
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to go. And even though I chose to stay
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even though many have chose to stay, God still make a way of
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Escape. He does not want you to be a
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harm. He don't want you to Your
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children to be at harm. If you're in a marriage with
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children, he doesn't want you to be in a relationship that is
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causing you to emotionally mentally or physically be
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devastated. Hmm.
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So he will make a way of escape and I just want to make sure I
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said that in the beginning in the beginning, right?
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So my marriage Horror Story started before we got married.
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Remember, as I shared, we would say we've been together.
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We've known each other. Ever since we were like
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elementary middle school but we started dating like right?
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When I was in like 8th, grade going into the freshman year and
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he was in high school. And so the horror story We had
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really bad behaviors of relational bad behaviors.
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They were bad. They were toxic.
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They were horrible. We both very needy.
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We were young and this carried on over after enduring our
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marriage matters. Just got worse, they got worse,
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we both grew, very resentful. We both became very bitter as
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the years was gone on and, you know, knock.
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Toxic Behavior. It was showing up as the years
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kept going past. It was like them, disrespect was
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growing, the lack of communication was going
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sidelight, the it was less communication every year.
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It was just kind of like bare minimum.
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There was control issues, there was just no honor, no honor, no
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respect, lack of communication. A lot of money.
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You know, we both were emotionally manipulative.
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Each other. Why?
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Because we were trying to get our needs met.
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Both of us, both of us was trying to get our needs met from
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each other and I know some people, probably got some women
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are going to probably listen to me like that.
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She's just being real wrong. She just calling it out yet.
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It is with a love you being transparent.
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Thank you. It is, it is what it is.
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I mean, we were unflexible towards each other.
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We're being so hard on each other.
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We had so many unknown realistic expectations about each other.
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In our marriage. It was hurting.
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We were hurting each other. and, Through that and just being too
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comfortable. I don't know if it's the say too
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comfortable. When I say to complement and we
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took advantage each other. That's what I mean.
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We took advantage of each other and and and then you throw five
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children in the Mist. It is.
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Wow. It was a lot.
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It was a lot. So I Horror Story started before
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we got married, just kind of transfer over in the midst of
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why we were married and then we have five children in less than
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five years that were raising. And we didn't know, God, try to
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think about all of that and try to do life without the father.
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Yes. When I'm the father, it's almost
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impossible. Both of us, not knowing about
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it, was impossible. Abby, we like at each other's
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throats arguing all the time arguments was like that was all
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the way we were able to talk to each other.
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Wow. And that it was, it was
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horrible. It was really horrible
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fast-forward years after We won't marry and current, you
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know, in our current marriage, the secrets of betrayal
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surfaced. And my husband finally confessed
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of the struggles and the Betrayal that he had done before
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the marriage. And while in the marriage, even
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though I was devastated, I was happy because, you know, as
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women, we always like something's not right?
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Yes. Yes, I actually had a dream and
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I don't want to go too much into the dream but I had a dream, the
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lord gave me a dream and I saw the faces.
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And when I said it to him because I remember, I woke up
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that morning and I was so sad because it was like a nightmare.
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He said, what's wrong? I said, I've just had this
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nightmare. I had this nightmare and I saw
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it was get what's a weighted? And he was like, oh, okay.
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Well, you have a good day. I'm about to go to work.
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I know where he hid his, he's going to laugh because that's
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the literally how I act like next day.
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He came in and said, he'd become.
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Some of the Lord was on him, he couldn't withhold.
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He had to tell me. And unfortunately, the women
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that I did that, I saw him. I didn't know I had described
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them to the tee, and that's what, that's what was horrifying
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to him. It shook him.
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Then I was able to Share and see these women in detail who they
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was. I didn't know.
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It was, truly, the Holy Spirit, working through me, through that
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dream. Mmm.
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And even though it was devastating to hear him confess,
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I was relieved at the same time. Yes, because I'm like, I finally
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got an answer for the unexplainable Bloom.
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Wow. It was like taking a deep
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breath. It really was like, Hmm.
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And yes, I was devastated. I was devastated and at the same
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time relieved at the same time frustrated, great of used and
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now I'm like at this point I'm saying, what do I do?
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What do I do? Where do I go from here?
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Where do I go from here? Do I stay do I go, do I just
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live? We haven't, we act like we just
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live in separate wings of the house.
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All these questions started going through my head and so I
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want to share, I have 10 reasons.
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I don't know if I'm gonna get through them all, but I'm, I
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tried to make a really short and I wrote them down.
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So you guys see me looking over? I don't know if anyone would
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ever see this video, it's because I wanted to make sure
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that I was able to capture how I was thinking.
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At that time. Wow.
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I State my reasons have grown since then, of course,
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throughout the course of our years Is of recovery and
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Redemption but in the beginning I wanted to just be really
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honest and Raw on lasting right. Why?
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Well reason, reason, number one is, I felt like I had to I felt
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like I had to stay why many may say why?
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Why she felt like she had to. Well I believed in Tradition and
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culture tradition and culture tell you like you suck it up,
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you do with it and that's it, right?
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You just deal with your marriage, you just get through
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the rough times. You just and so for me, my first
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thought was like, oh my God. Okay, I got to, I got that.
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I got to ride this out because I got to be that woman, right?
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Woman. And just write that out because
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I don't see other women in my community or whatever do that.
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And I would tell myself or even make it work, make it work Reba.
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But then again on the other side of I said I don't want to be
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like my parents and getting a divorce.
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Hmm, I didn't want to see that was my childhood pain, speaking
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to me and Sean up and in the beginning my childhood pain kept
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telling me. No, you can't do that.
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You can't do that, don't leave. Don't don't, don't don't, don't
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repeat what your parents did and so it was a fear there, right?
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Mmm, that's why that was reason number one.
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Even though, like I said, I grew it.
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My reasons, I want to make sure I keep saying, God does with
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make a way of Escape Escape ladies, he makes him a way of
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Escape for you, even though that there was broken covenants,
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sexual immorality, xand band, admit in my marriage, these was
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my wrong reasons again for why I stayed.
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Reason number two, I have five children.
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For the sake of the kids is what I used to say.
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We're raising five kids, I don't want to contribute to the
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wounds, I didn't want to contribute to them, having
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mother wounds, and father loans. Because I decided that I wanna I
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want to deal with him because he didn't did X Y & Z.
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Some then again here, get again, reason, even in reason number
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two, you see how bad it was for you when your parents divorce,
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how it messed? You up.
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Hmm. No you need to stay.
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So here it is. My childhood trauma.
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It's just keep popping up. I'm right.
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I felt that the one thing that I, I sat down and I was real
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serious. About was the fact that if my
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children can see us fighting arguing in Conflict, they
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deserved for us to, at least try for me, for, at least, for me to
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try to show them resolution. Also mmm-hmm, I didn't want to
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just walk away from that marriage and all they start with
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us fighting an argument and run. Didn't try to select them.
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See how to lose all that at the same time.
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Mmm, I was and I kept Romans 5 and 3 in my head a lot.
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Wow, I would think about that. Right?
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So reason number three, I didn't know how my life will look
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without him. I'm just being real.
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I know. Wow, I didn't know how my life
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was going to look like. I've spent more than I spent
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more than half a more than half of more, than half of me, is
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that, you know, I didn't. I really didn't know how.
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Is it gonna look? I was terrified.
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I didn't know how it was going to impact my children
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financially. How I was going to impact me.
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When I be able to make a do I need to walk away and leave kids
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with him all these things going through my head, right?
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And I also thought to myself, you can do this repo.
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Every man deal with pornography every man cheat.
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You'll be all right, you'll be all right, hmm.
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Reason. Number four, The reason why I
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stayed. I had a true friend and
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community that gave me hope. Well, in the beginning, I kept
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it all to myself, but I remember one day, one of my friends.
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She asked me to meet her at a Women's Conference And I was
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very reluctant to go because I was so sad and stuff and I
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didn't want nobody to really know what was going on, but I
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went ahead and met her there. As soon as I saw how I broke
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down and cried and she said, what is?
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And I just like, I just need to tell somebody something and she
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was like, okay so I read. I remember we found somewhere
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inside the church building and we start off into a corner like
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most of the conference talking outside and I just share with
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her. What was Is going on and I told
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her how shame I felt. I didn't know what to do and she
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reminded me, God is a God that can fix anything.
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Wow, and she said, we are you're not alone, you don't have to do
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this alone and she said, and I believe that you two are humbled
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enough that y'all can work through this and that you still
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have a bright future. That gave me the hope I need.
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Wow. And the community gave me the
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support I needed because we had a we had a lot of rough days
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ahead of us, right? Right, it's rough days ahead.
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When you working through restoration, you know, because
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to be honest, we wasn't restoring anything.
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We were starting something we never seen before and write
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something we had never done before, which was pursue a
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healthy marriage. hmm, so reason number five I just wanted to win
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Janice. I wanted the W.
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I wanted the W. I wanted the miraculous
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testimony, I wanted people to look at my story and be like
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God. Oh man, I serve your God, right?
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Wanted that I wanted the strong testimony and he had guy had did
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so many things in our life in our family.
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So Any Supernatural Miracles and things that he did for us.
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I'm like, this got to be small. Yes, got this is not the say
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him. He is hard for me, but nothing
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for him. Mmm, so I surely want it.
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The big testimony. I wanted the strong testimony
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reason. Number six.
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I saw my husband, he was very desperate for change.
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I saw it. My husband really wanted freedom
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and transformation. He really did.
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He wanted our marriage to be something new and he would say
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that all the time. We've, I believe we can have a
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new marriage. We can have something new and
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something different. So I said to myself, okay, So
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he's Desiring and wanting help. I'm Desiring.
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Wanting help. And we as a couple are Desiring.
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Wanting help. Why?
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Not? Why not?
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Hmm. Galatians 6:1 and three says
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brothers and sisters. If someone is caught in sin, you
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who live by the spirit, you should restore that person in
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the spirit of meekness. Keep watch over yourself.
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Lest you be tempted. This reminded me, I got a whole
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lot of failures. That means that I need to be
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forgiven to, like, I got, I had my own issues and so, I'm like,
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oh wait, if I'm looking to be this, like, who am I tonight to
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restore my brother? My husband.
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Mmm. So it was very crucial, we
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sought professional help individually and together.
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As a couple great reason. Number seven, I simply loved
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him, y'all. I love that man.
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Better work. Honestly love.
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Timmy wanted to be part of the solution.
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This commitment was not easy, huh?
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It was not easy but by far the most rewarding decision I made.
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Hmm. I was able to hide him and cover
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him in love. Why?
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He did the Deep work while I watched him being delivered by
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God, why I watched him being healed and changed and
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transformed by God, I was able to cover him with love and I
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loved him reason. Number eight, I didn't want to
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risk walking away, from what we built.
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Hmm, I didn't want to walk away from what we started to build
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with our family. Although stand was a risk.
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Remember y'all? I keep saying, gotta give you an
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escape. It's, that was a risk and it was
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much hard work walking walking through this process, but I
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didn't want to risk what we had. I spent a lot of years building
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with our family. It was some good stuff.
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We had good fruit, we had good children, a good foundation and
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I didn't want to risk that reason.
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Number 9 Love Is A Verb. Love is a action.
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It's not just a feeling, it's the feeling that not just, the
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feeling of Love or showing love. Love is more than just the Ebbs
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and flow of things. And even though I did, I Feel
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Love most of the time. My commitment.
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My Covenant, I still had a commitment and I still had a
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covenant and I wanted to trust that my commitment in my
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Covenant will hold our Union together through the rough
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times. Reason.
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Number 10, He was my biggest cheerleader for my healing
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Journey. Wow.
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I saw the fruit of change in him, he was just like, oh, you
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just need to get out and read the right.
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Just, you just need to come on now, I said, I'm sorry, you
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know, I saw the fruit of change in him which was he became
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concerned about me because most of our marriage, it was really
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about him. Hmm, what he wanted to do, what
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he wants to do it, right? And I saw the fruit A change.
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When he became my biggest cheerleader at my healing
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Journey because even though, ladies, I hope that you hear me
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correctly. I'm not taking blame for what he
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did. But I know that I played a part
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because marriage is a mirror. Hmm.
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We weren't doing things to each other.
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Wow, saying things to each other, right?
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You know, and so when he started to grow and change and be
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transformed, I couldn't stay the same even though he hurt me, I
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had to do the work and she was so happy and I change.
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Wow. I had to I saw the fruit of
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change in him. I watched him become a new man.
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A new father, a new friend. I watched him do.
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Whatever was needed to see me here.
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If we went to our mentors and they said, you need to do x y z,
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because this is what she's going to need to get through this hit.
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He's like he said, yes, I'll do it.
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If it was our counselors, he said, I would do it and he did,
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he did. What was the restoration
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process? Perfect.
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No. Was it hard?
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Yes. I mean, it was more hard days.
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going through it, then it felt like good things but now that
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we're on the other side of it it was like We needed our marriage
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to blow up Ms. The role we was going down was not a good road.
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Hmm, and now we've been able to change the trajectory of what I
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children. Thought marriage was.
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Wow that is so awesome right there.
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So that was the reason number 10 y'all and I'm not going to go
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any more, I can probably keep talking about it because I'm
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super passionate about speaking of the Redemptive work of God in
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a marriage. I mean.
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Wow, I thought I thought that marriage was about.
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Okay, me being happy. Well yes we found that out.
28:43
That's not. He is yes.
28:46
And one thing about marriage, It is with this.
28:49
How I got believe that God gave me women.
28:52
Majoring in marriage is because we have to constantly major and
28:58
you and your husband got married.
29:00
Really early age. Like my husband and I, we, my
29:03
husband. I start going together.
29:06
When junior high school, sweetheart.
29:09
And this year, we celebrated 44 years of marriage in September.
29:15
Yes, but I tell everybody that That you still have to
29:20
constantly major you constantly learn and you constantly grown
29:25
up. And that's a good thing.
29:28
Yeah, that's a good thing. When you can see growth and your
29:31
testimony. Oh my God.
29:36
Oh, my God, is so powerful and I hope that it gives so many hope.
29:45
So men who are trying to decide should I stay should I go?
29:53
What should I do? What people going to say?
29:57
Because you know, it's so many people are suffering and sound
30:01
is so many people. Now that we have social media,
30:04
they I called act. Why my picture?
30:11
Why did that? Can you see me?
30:14
No, I seen your picture. But I can still hear you.
30:22
There. No.
30:35
Okay everybody. Hold on.
30:39
And that I never had this happen before.
30:46
Why is it just showing my there you go.
30:49
Erica why? I don't know why they happen.
30:52
I do not know why. I never I never seen that
30:55
happen. But nevertheless the devil
30:58
trying to be be his if he don't, he don't want to go out but he's
31:01
going to go out. And I was saying on social
31:04
media, you know, people you people looking at the old a so
31:09
have over there. The perfect couple.
31:11
Oh, she always posting pictures. They don't trip.
31:15
Oh, she posted. He bought Bought her this.
31:17
All my boo. This is my boo that but those
31:20
people never tell of their stroke.
31:23
And some people looking like all these a perfect mayor's part of
31:27
me or they got it going on, they don't tell what they've been
31:31
through. Yes.
31:33
And there's other people, there's people that are engaged.
31:37
They are ones that are desired who I want to be.
31:39
I want to be like that. Oh God, every time I turn
31:43
around, she's posting all these great pictures and, you know, we
31:47
as women we like to show off, you're gonna actually you go
31:50
most of the see us talk about us but you don't give, no, no, no,
31:55
he bought me this. Oh he bought me a pair of shoes.
31:58
Yeah, Reba like perfume impressed, they tell all these
32:11
and people outside of just looking in and thinking is just
32:14
a fairytale marriage is work. You have to continue to Major.
32:19
You might not be in the same season.
32:22
You were 10 years ago but you want a different one.
32:25
So you have to learn how to you have to learn how to work with
32:31
that season that you're in. In because that's something I
32:35
just tried 63. I am not the same person.
32:38
I was 20 office in 20 years ago. I need the same person.
32:43
I was two years ago. Yeah, learn each other.
32:47
You have to change your different.
32:49
Yes. My computer making me mad job.
32:53
Why I want to keep doing me like this?
32:56
Come on, come on. Do me like that.
33:02
I know y'all can hear me, but it's it.
33:04
Don't wanna, you don't want to show my video.
33:15
It's sands on able to detect the camera.
33:19
Come on camera. My camera is trying to go.
33:47
You are. Just hold on, hold on, hold on
33:50
them. I never.
33:54
I never had this the word wise, my camera.
34:00
I can I can look at it until the camera's not on, but the
34:03
microphone is on. I'm going to get back with y'all
34:14
and you see if I can figure it out.
34:31
Hmm. I tried to come on, just then.
35:35
I think you came back on. I think it's trying to come back
35:56
on them. Yeah, but look like it's trying.
36:04
If not, I'm going to just keep talking long as I can see you.
36:07
That's what's important. The camera is on.
36:49
It looks like it's trying. Anna saying that it's on.
37:09
And I see the light as it was on.
37:14
There, go to picture. but I'm going to, I'm going to,
37:29
I'm just going to continue to talk and I never had this to
37:36
happen. I'm so I'm glad we got almost
37:39
finished. But nevertheless what I was
37:42
saying is marriage is work in the hear your to hear your
37:47
testimony of how you continue to major in your marriage that you
37:52
can stand here today. With that powerful testimony,
37:57
that will be able to encourage other women.
38:01
That if God did it for her, I know that he can do it for me
38:07
and what's one in your marriage renewal, how many years have you
38:12
been married? When when the struggle began, it
38:16
was like around the well, 12 year mark, maybe.
38:21
Hmm. It was like around the 12 year.
38:25
12 year, mark I had just kind of like turned around in my 30s.
38:33
I was feeling like a new woman change was happening.
38:39
He had just changed, I think he was going into his maybe late
38:43
30s at the time and, you know, we change we never equated that
38:47
or even thought about that. In the beginning when you get
38:49
married like what are we going to do?
38:50
When we start changing as we started getting older and things
38:54
like that? I never was a discussion and it
38:56
was around the 12 year mark. Wow, we started started talking
39:02
less. Hmm.
39:05
Started being more agitated with one another.
39:11
Hmm. Just not it.
39:18
Barely, speaking of even about the children's like oh I did
39:21
this with an OK in or he'll be like you going Do some
39:25
softening? Yeah.
39:26
Uh, it was, it was wow, short and good.
39:31
Like I do not know that a lot of people living like, No
39:37
communication, no respect. They're living, just like
39:42
roommates. Yes.
39:45
Marriage on actual on life support.
39:49
Barely breathing. I support barely breathing.
39:54
Yes and some are at a point where They saying, aye.
40:04
I'm too far in this. I've invested too much and I
40:08
listened closely to your 10 worries and a lot of people.
40:15
Well, we'll have to talk. We were married this.
40:17
Many of you who just going to do our own thing.
40:19
He do his thing. I do my thing, but we just stay
40:22
in the same house and just smile around others.
40:25
There's some separate. And doing their own thing.
40:33
Haven't decided. We're going to get back together
40:37
with not going to get the back together in the longer.
40:39
They stay apart, the more comfortable they get with it.
40:44
Yeah, they just shacking up. Yeah.
40:49
They just shacking up and we have to ask ourselves.
40:52
Is this a God? Is this marriage seek?
40:56
Help? Get him.
40:57
I love that. You said that you all had
41:00
mentals that you all sought out the help.
41:04
I love the fact that when you went to the convention that lady
41:10
pulled you aside and talk to you, she has a girl.
41:16
I wouldn't put up with that girl.
41:18
I wouldn't staying it girl, you crazy.
41:22
What you doing next? You young you got a lock point
41:26
then say there and you have a lot of women telling women that
41:30
they'll tell you to leave your husband and they putting up with
41:33
something way worse than what you're going through.
41:37
Then yes, they'll tell you, they won't put up with, how are you
41:40
need to leave? Yeah, but I thank God that you
41:44
did and not only that you was able to recognize That God
41:49
restored your mayor and that you want to help others.
41:53
Yes. You want to mental other women.
41:57
There are so many women that are In their seasonal waiting on
42:02
God, to send them their husband believe in God, for them to send
42:08
their husband, and they might be out there looking at the
42:12
fairytale lifestyle. But marriage is work and super
42:19
happy who put in the work, even though you all have went through
42:23
all of that. Y'all still constantly working
42:27
on it. Yes.
42:29
Constantly working on and the devil really want to fight
42:33
because he know y'all got a testimony.
42:37
Let's see here, we really want to stick his head up, you know,
42:42
have a testimony having, you know, a book, not pertaining my
42:49
marriage yet. We're working on it individually
42:53
and together, but not yet. Yeah, not yet.
42:59
I can't wait till they will come out.
43:04
Yeah, I know. I know that when this, you know,
43:11
when you're in the midst of it, you just you feel confused.
43:15
You like, man, should I stay or should I go?
43:17
Is it worth it? Uh, you know what, clean some,
43:22
even go to the have you know, act like it's not happening
43:26
happening, you know, it's not happening but it comes to a
43:30
point eventually just have to deal with it and it is far.
43:33
But It's worth it. If the two people in the
43:39
marriage is willing to do the work, right?
43:42
It can't work. If one person wandering work, it
43:45
takes to. It takes both people that have
43:48
to do the work and so I pray that I said something today that
43:54
can allow someone to grab onto hope a little bit tighter.
43:59
Wow, another day. Wow, because God is with you, he
44:03
sees all he knows all All he wants the best for both you and
44:09
your husband and the wife. Yes.
44:11
Yes he loves you both. Yes.
44:14
Yes. Really.
44:16
I just want to thank you. I try to try my video again for
44:19
those. You all might just be tuning in
44:22
or scroll down to the middle every, trying to figure out why
44:26
you don't see me some reason, my camera went out, but
44:28
nevertheless, we're still able to I'm able to see Reba and I am
44:33
able to choose able to hear me and I know, Old for fat.
44:38
I know for a fact that this episode is going to bless so
44:45
many ladies, Reba Hart. You can connect with her on
44:49
Facebook, she's in my Facebook group, sometimes you think
44:53
you're not reaching out to people and And you are.
44:58
And I thank God for that because I wrote a book women, majoring
45:03
in their marriage and I talks about what majoring in marriage.
45:06
I talked about when the mayor's violent sickness and health been
45:10
challenged, I talk about all those different things in my
45:13
book and it's under my website at www.jennychapin.com and then
45:19
God led me to do that Facebook. Which is constantly growing and
45:23
I'm not all about numbers. I'm about changing lives.
45:27
We can have fit and I know that I know that we will see it
45:31
better. Janice I don't I'm not a
45:34
minister. You got the foreperson said that
45:39
I'm in. I'm in the strength to Yamin, I
45:44
guess in that area but I'm not a diagnosed.
45:47
I just want this podcast and get gas on him that don't talk and
45:51
not a me, do all the talkin and failed and tell this until Store
45:58
and I'm getting so many great feedback on my interviews.
46:03
So I know without a shadow of doubt, this is the this is the
46:06
direction. God is taking, I didn't know
46:09
when I first started I just stepped out there and just did
46:12
it. And I was like interviews, I
46:16
like animals or people just women to share their story that
46:20
will bless ugly women. And so I want some money.
46:24
I do my podcast twice a month but But once a month, I
46:29
interview a guest. And when we reached out to me, I
46:35
greatly accepted it. And I'm so glad I was obedient
46:39
because she is really, really, we hadn't talked about any of
46:44
this. We got this.
46:48
So it really it really, really blessed me.
46:52
I want to thank you reason for that.
46:55
I'm gonna post a flyer you and everybody else see the flyer and
47:00
went when they can go on Spotify app while Spotify, lays download
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the Spotify app so you can see these podcast twice a month and
47:11
I think you the feel person I think I interview I interview my
47:16
sister, my sister was my first interview and hers was when the
47:20
marriage vow to death. Do us part my sister lost her
47:26
husband. Several years ago, he went
47:31
walking on the track and had a massive heart attack.
47:36
And she tells her story how God has brought her through his not
47:41
easy even today, but she shared with women.
47:45
How they to appreciate their husband.
47:49
Why are you have to be able to be a blessing to each other and
47:54
how they both was in a good place at the time when he died?
47:58
She said she was so glad that they were in a good thing.
48:01
They weren't mad at each other and they were in a good place in
48:05
life was really good. And the children was young, and
48:10
all they saw was their future. But my sister this to this day.
48:15
She says she she don't understand why I haven't gotten
48:19
any better for her. She meets him so bad, so many
48:23
things to remind her. So these interviews have I got
48:27
so many feedback on these interviews.
48:31
Oh, God is interviews and I really appreciate y'all.
48:34
And once again we've I want to thank you so very much are, you
48:39
know, when that, you know, when this podcast is out, I do hate
48:43
that. The video stopped and never had
48:47
that to happen. So I really, I really don't
48:49
know. It.
48:50
Just it just saying I'm not shocked.
48:52
I'm not sure. So you'll get the straight
48:54
stuff. Yeah.
48:59
But to God be the glory again Miss.
49:01
Janice, thank you so much for your service.
49:04
Thank you so much for servicing. Married women in your group on
49:09
your podcast. And again, I can can be found on
49:13
Facebook Instagram. G YouTube at Reba Hart are Eva
49:19
haart. You can and if you're interested
49:23
as a woman that you want to walk through the wombs of your heart
49:26
or your soul, I am your girl. Well, I help women win from the
49:31
inside out. We deal with sole issue.
49:35
So won't issues heart issues and then if I teach how to take lead
49:44
in your life, if That's kind of dominating in your sphere of
49:48
influence, at work, or in your community.
49:54
I teach leadership skills and personal development skills.
49:57
And so in through that all, I promise that you will be able to
50:01
tell your story and share your story so powerful that it will
50:07
draw others unto the Lord. Thank you, give Miss Janice, you
50:12
are more than welcome and your own you said you on YouTube You
50:15
as well. Yes.
50:16
Okay why? I didn't know, I didn't know
50:18
that you're on YouTube YouTube. My favorite station.
50:23
And I love. What did you do?
50:26
Yes. You think you think you really
50:30
know those people like you and your family out, say that?
50:34
I said my YouTube friend. I never meant.
50:36
I love you too. I love you know, just just just
50:40
listen to inspiring messages and teaching all of their.
50:46
You have truly, you have true literary will bless my heart if
50:50
you have blessed. Anybody else?
50:52
You're Clear all, thank you so much.
50:54
You're really, really blessed me.
50:57
So, ladies, I want to thank you so much for your support.
51:01
How you continuing to support me on these podcast?
51:06
Thank you. All of your part of the women,
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51:13
That's the Facebook for women measuring their marriage.
51:16
And I want to thank you all for that.
51:18
And on the 28th this podcast will come out on December 20.
51:23
2:00. You can go to that group and you
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You can see it. Or if you have your notification
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but you will be reminded constantly.
51:38
You're going to see the flags. I'm getting ready to drop the
51:40
flyer like as soon as we get off, I'm going to drop the
51:44
flyer. So mark your calendars into it,
51:48
be a blessing and and share this with other ladies.
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Share this. Who chose friends Shadows
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51:58
You don't know who need this. Because I'm telling you people
52:01
walk around with a smile and face on.
52:04
Yes. And you'll know what they're
52:06
going through. Oh no.
52:07
She only. I'm not going to sing her go to
52:09
her. No may have a great man.
52:11
Pass this when this, when this park has come out.
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52:26
These people on social media. I love social media because
52:29
that's my platform, but people on social media, there's some
52:33
good actors you'll be shocked. Then when they hear people to
52:36
broke up, they be so sharp because all they saw was all the
52:41
good. Food and a happy moments in.
52:43
Yeah, the would seem to be the perfect time.
52:47
So ladies share, share, share and I thank you all so much for
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continuing to rock for me. Again.
52:54
I'm Janice fans, the founder of the marriage major.
52:59
And the Riva, I want to thank you, and you have a blessed rest
53:03
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53:08
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