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6 Things We Learned in 20 Years of Marriage

How many emails do you have in your inbox?

How many emails do you have in your inbox right now? We were talking about this on Instagram stories a few days ago and someone sent in the above photo showing how many they had in their inbox.

I’m guessing most of you don’t have over 400k emails in your inbox, but if you have 47 or 407 or 4007 or 40,007 emails in your inbox (or more than that!) and you feel like you wish you had a better system to feel less overwhelmed by emails and to keep your inbox decluttered on an ongoing basis, I want to help you!

Join me for the 5-Day Tame Your Email Inbox Course & Challenge where I’ll teach you my system for staying on top of the hundreds of emails I get every day! It starts Monday, so don’t miss out!

Sign up here for the 5-Day Tame Your Email Inbox Challenge!

A pre-recorded Tame the Email Inbox Class: You’ll get access to a 20-minute class where I’ll walk you through my email system.
Simple daily projects to clear out and organize your inbox: There will be simple daily projects from me for 5 days to help you clear out your inbox and set up a system for keeping it under control.
Real-time accountability: Plus, if you’d like added accountability, you can join the Facebook Group where we’ll be interacting and walking through each of the daily projects together

I’m so excited to help you feel organized and efficient with emails — once and for all!

ARE YOU IN? HERE’S HOW TO JOIN US:

1. Pre-order The Time-Saving Mom from any retailer. The best price right now is directly from the publisher (Baker Book House) as it’s just $13.97 with free shipping!! It’s also available on Amazon as an ebook or hardcover with the Pre-Order Price Guarantee which means that if you order it now, if the price goes down any time between when you order and when it releases, you’ll get the lowest price! Plus, you can get it from Barnes & Noble, Target, ChristianBook.com, or ask your local bookstore to pre-order it.

2. Fill out the form at the bottom of this page here. That’s it! Once you fill out the form, you’ll get an email from me with all the details!

I hope you can join us! Any questions? Just leave a comment and I’ll do my best to answer them promptly!

Sign up for the Tame Your Email Inbox Challenge here.

Note: The challenge runs January 23-28, 2023. However, if you sign up, you’ll get access to it for the next few months, so you’ll have time to work through it at a slower pace, if need be!

6 Things We Learned in 20 Years of Marriage

Jesse and I celebrated a milestone anniversary recently – twenty years of marriage! In some ways, it feels like it hasn’t been that long, and in other ways, it feels like we have been married even longer than that (especially since we’ve known each other since we were 9 and 10. We sat down and recorded a podcast episode discussing the biggest lessons that we have learned over the past two decades.

The last few years have stretched us more than ever. Walking through foster care licensing, fostering 6 precious kids of differing ages, saying goodbye to the beautiful boy C who stole our hearts for 8 1/2 months, continuing to love and walk with his mama and be involved in his life for the past two years, saying yes to David and being thrust into the world of special needs and medical complexities, countless doctor’s appointments and therapies, many scary medical moments, surgeries, saying yes to adoption, having a senior and walking through all the college stuff and preparing to launch a child, saying yes to our daughter dating, countless sporting events, two miracle pregnancies, so many nighttime wake-ups with three little ones… life is full and never dull.

There are constantly opportunities to trust the Lord and work together. Some days we do it better than others.

Having three teenagers and three little ones and a full-time business from our home is always an adventure. Every day requires organization, communication, adaptability, creativity, flexibility, and patience.

We have our moments when we are really irritated and annoyed with each other, but we’ve learned more and more that it’s worth it to fight for our marriage and for each other instead of just fighting to be right or to prove the other person wrong.

Some days we are tired. Some days we wonder how it’s all going to work out. Some days we miscommunicate.

But we keep choosing each other. We keep choosing to love, even on the days when we don’t feel like it or when it’s hard or when there are tensions.

In this episode of The Crystal Paine Show, Jesse and I share a few things we’ve learned in the last 20 years:

Say I love you often.
Go out of your way to make each other laugh.
Give your spouse time and space to do things that they love and that bring them life.
Flirt every day.
Find the good and call it out.
A strong marriage doesn’t just happen, but it’s so worth the time, intention, and sacrifice. Listen below as we unpack each of these and get really practical as to what this looks like in our every day lives.

Happy 20th anniversary, Jesse! Thank you for continuing to choose me and love me — even on the hard days! I’d marry you all over again! I love you so much!

In This Episode

[00:35] – We recently celebrated a milestone anniversary.

[01:56] – We are sharing lessons we’ve learned in twenty years of marriage.

[02:22] – Don’t believe everything you dream.

[04:09] – I just finished listening to the audiobook The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek.

[06:49] – There is a sequel to that book as well.

[08:09] – What’s saving my life this week?

[09:40] – Pre-order my new book coming out on March 7th — lots of fun freebies coming for people who pre-order!

[11:33] – Baker Publishing Group is offering the best deal on my new book.

[13:14] – I have learned to tell Jesse that I love him often.

[15:43] – Jesse defines love as commitment, action, and feeling.

[16:00] – We have learned to go out of our ways to make each other laugh.