Episode 190 – Your Best US – Marriage is Easier Than You Think – Ted Lowe – pt 1

Episode 190 Show Notes for Ted Lowe Interview

Every marriage is unique. Every married couple is unique. Sometimes, couples are
like a unique romantic, marital snowflake. Sometimes, couples are a uniquely,
unromantic hot mess. No matter where couples find themselves, they can still
experience more moments of awesome and less moments of awful in their
marriage.

MarriedPeople is the marriage division at The reThink Group (also known as
Orange), a non-profit organization devoted to influencing those who influence
the next generation. Before working at Orange, Ted worked as Director of
MarriedLife at North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Ga. And before that,
as a youth pastor at Saddleback Community Church.

Today’s guest has experienced the AWESOME as well as the AWEFULL…and in his new book, “Your Best US: Marriage is Easier Than You Think,” Ted Lowe uses humor, Biblical wisdom, research and a massive amount of practicality – Ted guides couples through four easy, doable habit (which we go over on the program today) – that will help them become their best, what he calls, their US…

Welcome to the program, Ted Lowe!

Married People – which is part ORANGE –what IS Orange?

Now Ted…first, congratulations on the book. I have gone through my copy and folks, I’m telling you – it is chock full of examples and insights that is almost virtually guaranteed to resonate with you, your spouse and elevate your marriage to a higher level. Amen!

This book, Ted, is such an easy read! It’s not very long…what, 100 pages or there about…so it can easily be read in just an hour or so…

I want to start at the beginning…and I love how you describe the decision to get married…I love it…let’s start there…describe for our listeners how you found the “love of your life” and made the decision to get married…

And then, you became associated with Saddleback Church – tell us how that helped you to enter the ministry you are in now…

Then, with the blessing of Andy Stanley – what happened?

In your book, you describe what MOST people consider to be the secret to a successful marriage: Hard work, communication, great chemistry and also compatibility. But you say those things are not necessarily so…how is that?

The three one-liners that changed our marriage:

• We know tragedy and this ain’t it.

• We have first world problems.

• Do you want me to feel it or fix it?

Explain the barriers to having fun…

The term “US” in your book – how did you come up with that?

The best thing you can do for your kids – is leave. (How date night saves
marriages)

You tell people to stop doing what the people around them are doing, stop focusing on what culture is telling us to begin developing the right marital habits that work FOR you…explain…

Great habits in marriage are relational = emotional = Awesome

Bad habits in marriage are relational as well…and therefore emotional = Awful

RESOURCES:

Website:

www.tedlowe.com

Email:

tlowe@rethinkgroup.org

Book: Your Best US: Marriage is Easier Than You Think

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