Congratulations! You made it to the tenth and final Engaged Encounter podcast. We hope you enjoyed writing and exchanging your Engagement Promises with each other after the last episode. This last podcast is about healing in marriage, and we will focus on showing how our awareness of ourselves and our sensitivity to each other has grown during this podcast series and your times of sharing together. Your relationship can bring healing into your daily lives, just as Jesus brought God’s love and healing into our world. May this last podcast bind you together in perfect harmony and let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts.

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Thank you for listening to the first eight podcasts in this Engaged Encounter series. The eighth podcast was about intimacy and how important it is to our marriage relationship. This ninth episode will look at the important preparation needed for entering the covenant of marriage. You will write your engagement promise to each other as part of this episode’s activities. Please download the worksheet for this episode at encounter.org/engaged-encounter.

Hope is an important part of coping with change, and we covered that topic in the seventh podcast. The eighth podcast talks about how intimacy is vital to your marriage relationship. Intimacy is more than sex, can be experienced in every aspect of our relationship. Our sexual relationship is only a part of our total marriage relationship. You will be using worksheet 8.3 as part of this episode. If you haven’t already downloaded it, please do so at encounter.org/engaged-encounter.

Hopefully episode six helped you be open to listening to each other about planning and finances so you could discuss prioritizing your budget as a couple. This seventh Engaged Encounter podcast is about coping with change. Many things change over the years and those changes can happen in many ways. It is important to learn how to deal with change and be able to communicate your feelings with your life-partner.

Don’t forget the worksheet for this episode. Download it at encounter.org/engaged-encounter.

Building on the foundation of the first five podcasts, including the last podcast that reminded us how relationships with our family and friends will change as your wedding day approaches, the sixth episode deals with planning and finances as a couple. This important podcast helps you consider how you can work together to prioritize and decide what is important to both of you. You will need to use worksheet 6.3 during this podcast. If you haven’t already downloaded it, please take a moment to do so now. We encourage you to be open to each other’s thoughts and feelings on this topic and to listen carefully to this podcast.

Get the worksheet for this episode at encounter.org/engaged-encounter.

After talking about faith in the fourth podcast, this episode helps you consider your relationship as a couple with family and friends. Family and friends are an important part of our relationship, and the couples hosting the podcast will share some of their experiences with you in this fifth episode. You will see how the focus shifts from my family and friends to our family and friends.

If you haven’t already downloaded the worksheet for this episode, you can find it at encounter.org/engaged-encounter.

Hopefully the third episode showed you that Unity is the real goal of marriage. This fourth podcast will center on faith and our covenant with God.

There is a worksheet that goes with this episode. You can download it at encounter.org/engaged-encounter.

In the second podcast, we learned about making the decision to love your spouse and how you sometimes need to make that decision every day. This third episode is about unity as a couple, striving for oneness in your relationship and how the desire for unity overcomes any of our own imperfections.

Please download the worksheet for this episode at encounter.org/engaged-encounter.