Have you and your spouse ever been on a getaway together or a family vacation and it didn’t go so well? We can relate! Today we’ll share a few of our stories, list some reasons you might be experiencing conflict away from home, and give you five marriage survival tips to help you vacation-proof your marriage. 

5 Possible Reasons Couples Have Vacation Conflict 

1.    We’re out of our normal routine.
2.    We’re “living” in small spaces.
3.    We have different vacation styles.
4.    We’re sleep deprived.
5.    We’re navigating challenges with kids.

5 Must-Pack Marriage-Survival Tools for Vacation

1. Accurately assess your situation and realize sometimes it will bring out your worst.
2. Remember that you’ll be home soon and back to those regular, comfortable habits.
3. Fake it until you make it. You know you love your spouse; you just don’t feel like it.
4. Have a common enemy.
5. Laugh about it together and don’t wait until it’s all over.

Us Time Challenge

This week, look back at a previous vacation that maybe didn’t go so well. Talk and laugh about what you could have done differently. Focus on your own behavior and attitudes, not your spouse’s.   

Links Mentioned in This Episode

•    “Your Daily Routines Aren’t Mundane—They’re Actually Keeping You Sane and Healthy (It’s Science)” from RealSimple.com (https://www.realsimple.com/work-life/life-strategies/benefits-of-routines)

Team Us Resources

•    Team Us: The Unifying Power of Grace, Commitment, and Cooperation in Marriage (https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/) 
•    FREE Team Us Study Guide (https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/free-team-us-study-guide/)

Connect with Ted and Ashleigh

•    Website (https://ashleighslater.com/)
•    Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/ashleighslater_author/)
•    Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ashleighslaterauthor)

Have you and your spouse ever been on a getaway together or a family vacation and it didn’t go so well? We can relate! Today we’ll share a few of our stories, list some reasons you might be experiencing conflict away from home, and give you five marriage survival tips to help you vacation-proof your marriage. 
5 Possible Reasons Couples Have Vacation Conflict 
1.    We’re out of our normal routine. 2.    We’re “living” in small spaces. 3.    We have different vacation styles. 4.    We’re sleep deprived. 5.    We’re navigating challenges with kids.
5 Must-Pack Marriage-Survival Tools for Vacation
1. Accurately assess your situation and realize sometimes it will bring out your worst. 2. Remember that you’ll be home soon and back to those regular, comfortable habits. 3. Fake it until you make it. You know you love your spouse; you just don’t feel like it. 4. Have a common enemy. 5. Laugh about it together and don’t wait until it’s all over.
Us Time Challenge
This week, look back at a previous vacation that maybe didn’t go so well. Talk and laugh about what you could have done differently. Focus on your own behavior and attitudes, not your spouse’s.   
Links Mentioned in This Episode
•    “Your Daily Routines Aren’t Mundane—They’re Actually Keeping You Sane and Healthy (It’s Science)” from RealSimple.com (<a href="https://www.realsimple.com/work-life/life-strategies/benefits-of-routines)">https://www.realsimple.com/work-life/life-strategies/benefits-of-routines)</a> 
Team Us Resources
•    Team Us: The Unifying Power of Grace, Commitment, and Cooperation in Marriage (<a href="https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/">https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/</a>)  •    FREE Team Us Study Guide (<a href="https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/free-team-us-study-guide/)">https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/free-team-us-study-guide/)</a> 
Connect with Ted and Ashleigh
•    Website (<a href="https://ashleighslater.com/)">https://ashleighslater.com/)</a>  •    Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/ashleighslater_author/)">https://www.instagram.com/ashleighslater_author/)</a>   •    Facebook (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ashleighslaterauthor)">https://www.facebook.com/ashleighslaterauthor)</a>

The best marriages have a teamwork mentality. Spouses serve each other, support each other, and celebrate each other. They tackle life together, and when one slips, the other gives grace. Husbands and wives can be vulnerable with each other because they know they rise and fall as one.

Do you want a marriage like this? On each episode of the Team Us Podcast, married couple Ted and Ashleigh Slater come alongside you and your spouse as friends and mentors. They talk openly, honestly, and humorously about the betters and the worsts of their marriage, sharing how grace, commitment, cooperation, and lots of laughter have kept them united over the years.

Whether you’re newly married and desire to build a strong foundation, or you’ve been married longer and your relationship needs a little TLC, you’ll gain practical, realistic ideas for strengthening your Team Us.

The best marriages have a teamwork mentality. Spouses serve each other, support each other, and celebrate each other. They tackle life together, and when one slips, the other gives grace. Husbands and wives can be vulnerable with each other because they know they rise and fall as one. Do you want a marriage like this? On each episode of the Team Us Podcast, married couple Ted and Ashleigh Slater come alongside you and your spouse as friends and mentors. They talk openly, honestly, and humorously about the betters and the worsts of their marriage, sharing how grace, commitment, cooperation, and lots of laughter have kept them united over the years. Whether you’re newly married and desire to build a strong foundation, or you’ve been married longer and your relationship needs a little TLC, you’ll gain practical, realistic ideas for strengthening your Team Us.

The best marriages have a teamwork mentality. Spouses serve each other, support each other, and celebrate each other. They tackle life together, and when one slips, the other gives grace. Husbands and wives can be vulnerable with each other because...

Team Us

The best marriages have a teamwork mentality. Spouses serve each other, support each other, and celebrate each other. They tackle life together, and when one slips, the other gives grace. Husbands and wives can be vulnerable with each other because they know they rise and fall as one. Do you want a marriage like this? On each episode of the Team Us Podcast, married couple Ted and Ashleigh Slater come alongside you and your spouse as friends and mentors. They talk openly, honestly, and humorously about the betters and the worsts of their marriage, sharing how grace, commitment, cooperation, and lots of laughter have kept them united over the years. Whether you’re newly married and desire to build a strong foundation, or you’ve been married longer and your relationship needs a little TLC, you’ll gain practical, realistic ideas for strengthening your Team Us.

How to Vacation-Proof Your Marriage

We all feel discouraged sometimes. But what about when our spouse feels beaten down or weary? On this episode, we share some practical ways you can encourage your discouraged spouse.

4 Ideas for Encouraging Your Discouraged Spouse
Speak your spouse’s love language
Become a “megaphone” of encouragement
Be patient with your spouse
See the “hero” in your spouse

Us Time Challenge

Ask your spouse what most encourages them when they’re discouraged.

Team Us Resources
Team Us: The Unifying Power of Grace, Commitment, and Cooperation in Marriage (https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/)
FREE Team Us Study Guide (https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/free-team-us-study-guide/)

Connect with Ted and Ashleigh
Website (https://ashleighslater.com/)
Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/teamuspodcast/)
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ashleighslaterauthor)

We all feel discouraged sometimes. But what about when our spouse feels beaten down or weary? On this episode, we share some practical ways you can encourage your discouraged spouse.
<hr>
4 Ideas for Encouraging Your Discouraged Spouse
<ol>
<li>Speak your spouse’s love language</li>
<li>Become a “megaphone” of encouragement</li>
<li>Be patient with your spouse</li>
<li>See the “hero” in your spouse</li>
</ol>
<hr>
Us Time Challenge
 Ask your spouse what most encourages them when they’re discouraged.
<hr>
Team Us Resources
<ul>
<li>Team Us: The Unifying Power of Grace, Commitment, and Cooperation in Marriage (<a href="https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/">https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/</a>)</li>
<li>FREE Team Us Study Guide (<a href="https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/free-team-us-study-guide/">https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/free-team-us-study-guide/</a>)</li>
</ul>
<hr>
Connect with Ted and Ashleigh
<ul>
<li>Website (<a href="https://ashleighslater.com/">https://ashleighslater.com/</a>)</li>
<li>Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/teamuspodcast/">https://www.instagram.com/teamuspodcast/</a>)</li>
<li>Facebook (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ashleighslaterauthor">https://www.facebook.com/ashleighslaterauthor</a>)</li>
</ul>

How to Encourage Your Discouraged Spouse

Among married couples, sometimes there’s this belief that “an affair could never happen to us!” As a result, safeguards are often not set in place. In this episode, we share four strategies we use to safeguard our marriage from affairs. Perhaps they’ll also be helpful to you.

4 Strategies for Safeguarding Your Marriage from Affairs
Recognize you are not immune from temptation.
Choose your close friends or confidants wisely.
Follow Billy Graham’s example.
Reject keeping secrets.

Us Time Challenge

Sit down and talk through what safeguards you have in place. If you don’t have any, establish and agree on some.

Team Us Resources
Team Us: The Unifying Power of Grace, Commitment, and Cooperation in Marriage (https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/)
FREE Team Us Study Guide (https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/free-team-us-study-guide/)

Connect with Ted and Ashleigh
Website (https://ashleighslater.com/)
Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/teamuspodcast/)
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ashleighslaterauthor

Among married couples, sometimes there’s this belief that “an affair could never happen to us!” As a result, safeguards are often not set in place. In this episode, we share four strategies we use to safeguard our marriage from affairs. Perhaps they’ll also be helpful to you.
<hr>
4 Strategies for Safeguarding Your Marriage from Affairs
<ul>
<li>Recognize you are not immune from temptation.</li>
<li>Choose your close friends or confidants wisely.</li>
<li>Follow Billy Graham’s example.</li>
<li>Reject keeping secrets.</li>
</ul>
<hr>
Us Time Challenge
Sit down and talk through what safeguards you have in place. If you don’t have any, establish and agree on some.
<hr>
Team Us Resources
<ul>
<li>Team Us: The Unifying Power of Grace, Commitment, and Cooperation in Marriage (<a href="https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/">https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/</a>)</li>
<li>FREE Team Us Study Guide (<a href="https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/free-team-us-study-guide/)">https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/free-team-us-study-guide/)</a>   </li>
</ul>
<hr>
Connect with Ted and Ashleigh
<ul>
<li>Website (<a href="https://ashleighslater.com/">https://ashleighslater.com/</a>)</li>
<li>Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/teamuspodcast/">https://www.instagram.com/teamuspodcast/</a>)</li>
<li>Facebook (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ashleighslaterauthor">https://www.facebook.com/ashleighslaterauthor</a></li>
</ul>

Strategies for Safeguarding Your Marriage from Affairs

Do you ever run out of things to talk about with your spouse? After almost twenty-two years of marriage, we do! In this episode, we share some fun conversation starters we found online and model for you how to use them to connect with your spouse.

Conversation Starters We Answer
If you could have any job, whether serious or silly, and money was not a factor, what would it be?
If time travel existed, when and where would you like to visit first?
Who are three famous people, dead or alive, you would want to have lunch with?
If you could only listen to two albums for the rest of your life, which ones would you choose, and why?
What do you think our biggest strength as a couple is? What about our biggest weakness?
What’s a "little thing" in our relationship that you really love?
If our life was a reality TV series, what do you think would be the most appropriate title?
What is one date we have not done you would like to do?

"Us Time" Challenge

Ask each other the conversation starters we used or find additional ones online.

Team Us Resources
Team Us: The Unifying Power of Grace, Commitment, and Cooperation in Marriage (https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/)
FREE Team Us Study Guide (https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/free-team-us-study-guide/)

Links Mentioned in This Episode
“93 Meaningful Conversation Starters & Questions for Couples to Better Connect,” The Adventure Challenge, https://www.theadventurechallenge.com/blogs/news/conversation-starters-for-couples/
“260 Free Printable Conversation Starters for Couples,” WinShape Marriage, https://marriage.winshape.org/resource/conversation-starters-for-date-night/
Bedtime Prayers: Lullabies and Peaceful Worship by Twila Paris (https://amzn.to/4gf4aj5)

Connect with Ted and Ashleigh
Website (https://ashleighslater.com/)
Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/teamuspodcast/)
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ashleighslaterauthor)

Do you ever run out of things to talk about with your spouse? After almost twenty-two years of marriage, we do! In this episode, we share some fun conversation starters we found online and model for you how to use them to connect with your spouse.
Conversation Starters We Answer
<ul>
<li>If you could have any job, whether serious or silly, and money was not a factor, what would it be?</li>
<li>If time travel existed, when and where would you like to visit first?</li>
<li>Who are three famous people, dead or alive, you would want to have lunch with?</li>
<li>If you could only listen to two albums for the rest of your life, which ones would you choose, and why?</li>
<li>What do you think our biggest strength as a couple is? What about our biggest weakness?</li>
<li>What’s a "little thing" in our relationship that you really love?</li>
<li>If our life was a reality TV series, what do you think would be the most appropriate title?</li>
<li>What is one date we have not done you would like to do?</li>
</ul>
"Us Time" Challenge
Ask each other the conversation starters we used or find additional ones online.
Team Us Resources
<ul>
<li>Team Us: The Unifying Power of Grace, Commitment, and Cooperation in Marriage (<a href="https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/">https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/</a>)</li>
<li>FREE Team Us Study Guide (<a href="https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/free-team-us-study-guide/">https://ashleighslater.com/team-us/free-team-us-study-guide/</a>)</li>
</ul>
 Links Mentioned in This Episode
<ul>
<li>“93 Meaningful Conversation Starters &amp; Questions for Couples to Better Connect,” The Adventure Challenge, <a href="https://www.theadventurechallenge.com/blogs/news/conversation-starters-for-couples/">https://www.theadventurechallenge.com/blogs/news/conversation-starters-for-couples/</a></li>
<li>“260 Free Printable Conversation Starters for Couples,” WinShape Marriage, <a href="https://marriage.winshape.org/resource/conversation-starters-for-date-night/">https://marriage.winshape.org/resource/conversation-starters-for-date-night/</a></li>
<li>Bedtime Prayers: Lullabies and Peaceful Worship by Twila Paris (<a href="https://amzn.to/4gf4aj5">https://amzn.to/4gf4aj5</a>)</li>
</ul>
Connect with Ted and Ashleigh
<ul>
<li>Website (<a href="https://ashleighslater.com/">https://ashleighslater.com/</a>)</li>
<li>Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/teamuspodcast/">https://www.instagram.com/teamuspodcast/</a>)</li>
<li>Facebook (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ashleighslaterauthor">https://www.facebook.com/ashleighslaterauthor</a>)</li>
</ul>

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