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Ryan and Agnes introduce their new book, So You Think You're Ready to Be Married, and its companion on tax problems, and explain how the podcast became an audiobook, then a paperback and a Polish edition. They walk through the topics the marriage book covers, including finances, family, faith, intimacy, trust and forgiveness, and discuss how differing faith backgrounds affect a marriage.

Takeaways

• Before marrying, talk through money, family expectations, faith, intimacy, trust and forgiveness instead of assuming your partner shares your vision.
• Money is one of the most common reasons couples divorce, so agree on a compromise before problems start.
• Real intimacy includes supporting your partner's deeper needs, such as their faith, without being asked.

Chapters

• 0:00 Story time: reading from the book on trust
• 1:36 Introducing the new book and the Polish edition
• 3:42 Companion book on tax problems
• 4:46 Turning spoken episodes into a written book
• 8:29 What the book covers: household, past, faith, money, family
• 12:12 Where to find the book and audiobook
• 14:15 First book signing and how the book came about
• 16:52 Platforms, countries and a Poland campaign
• 17:56 Faith, divorce and the communion question
• 22:08 Intimacy as quiet support
• 25:54 Wrap-up and mailbag

Conversation and opinion, not medical, legal, tax or financial advice.