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The Power of “Yet”: Hope for Couples Who Feel Stuck · Doing Marriage Well

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Doing Marriage Well for March 2nd, 2026 The Power of Yet Hope for Couples Who
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Feel Stuck This week will be a bit different.
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I'm going to share a few things from my playlist to make some points based on them.
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First up, Lindsey Stirling's Eye of the Untold Her. There's a link in the show notes to YouTube.
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The backstory is what makes this hit so hard. In 2010, at the age of 23.
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Stirling made the quarterfinals of America's Got Talent. The male voice at the
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start is Piers Morgan, a judge who savages her performance.
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Among other things, he said, To do what you do, you've got to be a world-class violinist.
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There are times when it sounded, to me, like a bunch of rats being strangled. You're not good enough.
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Then the video cuts to what she's done since then, including playing for 170,000
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fans at Lollapalooza Paris on July 21, 2023.
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At the end of the piece, we again hear Morgan say, you're not good enough.
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And Sterling says, not good enough, yet.
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Yet. A small word with so much power. You don't have a good marriage, yet.
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You don't know how to be a good husband or wife, yet.
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You don't have a good sex life, yet.
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You don't feel loved or respected by your spouse, yet.
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God wants every one of us to have a solid, happy marriage, and the vast majority
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of folks who struggle with that today can have it.
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Don't let the negative voices tell you you're not good enough.
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Keep at it. Work at it. Fight for it.
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Keep reminding yourself you don't have it, yet.
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This week, when you run into something you dislike about your marriage,
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remind yourself that you don't have what you want, yet.
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This is Paul, reminding you that doing marriage well looks different for every couple.