169: 7 Daily Marriage Challenges to Try This Week

Most weeks, your marriage gets whatever energy is left after everything else. What if this week looked a little different?

We're walking through seven daily marriage challenges, one for every day of the week, pulled straight from what's live in the One Degree Marriage app. You don't have to start on a Monday. Pick any day, go seven days, and see what shifts. Along the way, we share why we started One Degree in the first place, what the "one degree" philosophy actually means for your marriage, and why we're convinced that small, consistent investments are what lead to a completely different destination years down the road.

In this episode:

• The ship analogy: why a one-degree course correction, over enough distance, leads you somewhere entirely different than where you were headed
• Tuesday's challenge: how surprising your spouse with a small treat pushes back against the slow drift of taking each other for granted
• Wednesday's challenge: reading a psalm together and talking about what stands out, even if it's just one line (and why even solid Christian couples rarely do this)
• Thursday's challenge: texting your spouse something you love about them mid-day, not just logistics
• Friday's challenge: invite someone over even if your house is not set up for it
• Saturday's challenge: ask your spouse their five-year dreams and what opens up when you let yourself think past the day-to-day grind
• Sunday's challenge: the weekly marriage meeting and why, seven years in, it is still one of the most transformative habits in our marriage

Resources:

• Download the One Degree Marriage App (free): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/one-degree-marriage/id6776013794
• Free Weekly Marriage Meeting Template: https://onedegreemarriage.com/meeting
• Weekly Marriage Meeting Journal: https://shop.onedegreemarriage.com/

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