The Dream Marriage
The Dream Marriage Podcast is hosted by Brian and Allison Dalke. They have helped hundreds of couples create stronger marriages through our Dream Retreats, 2 on 2 strategy sessions, and marriage coaching. Their goal is to help empower married couples to have the Dream Marriage they have always wanted. They want that for your marriage as well! In this podcast they will show you that with the right vision, unified dreams, and putting your spouses needs before your own… you can have the Dream Marriage you have always wanted!
Episodes
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
E13: Porn and Your Marriage
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
In this episode of the dream marriage podcast, the Dalkes have an important and honest conversation about porn and your marriage.
Here are a few links to the MANY videos/articles we watched while researching the effects of porn for this episode. There are MANY more out there. Just go look and do your research. This should get you started, though.
(Video) A doctor's take on the negative effects of porn on men https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTVyjLPLkfk
(Article) 5 Ex-Porn Performers Who are Now Anti-Porn: https://fightthenewdrug.org/5-popular-ex-porn-stars-who-are-now-anti-porn/
Education about the effects of porn: (so many incredible articles here!)https://fightthenewdrug.org/blog/
Life Changing Resources for those Addicted to Porn:
https://bravehearts.org/
www.thefreedomfight.org
www.covenanteyes.com
Email us anytime at thedreammarriagepodcast@gmail.com Or check out our free resources for helping you create the marriage of your dreams at www.thedreammarriage.com
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
E12: The Power of Praying Over Your Spouse
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
In this episode of the Dream Marriage, the Dalkes discuss the importance of not only praying for your spouse but also praying over your spouse.
They talk about their personal experience with this practice and share practical ways to get started.
Email us anytime at thedreammarriagepodcast@gmail.com
Or checkout out our free resources for helping you create the marriage of your dreams at www.thedreammarriage.com
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
E11: A Dream Chasing Update from the Dalkes
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
In this episode of the Dream Marriage, Brian and Allison Dalke update listeners on the dreams they're chasing as a couple and a family.
They believe that it's essential for all couples to dream together, and they practice what they preach.
Hear their story of selling their dream home, moving to 50 acres in the country, and their decision to become flower farmers.
They discuss how dream chasing is hard, and how dreams usually change over time.
In this episode, they encourage listeners to not limit God.
To hear why dreaming is essential for couples and how you can start to dream with your spouse, check out this previous episode of the podcast https://thedreammarriagepodcast.podbean.com/e/dreaming-with-your-spouse/
Soul Shepherding Institute link https://www.soulshepherding.org/institute/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA_5WvBhBAEiwAZtCU7-5YlxnKjdlVEY7zEkpp997YU2ui5jOdXZMlha9rEtVdsiRU9JG-9RoCX00QAvD_BwE
Download our Couples’ Guide to Dream Chasing at www.thedreammarriage.com
Email us anytime at thedreammarriagepodcast@gmail.com
Or checkout out our free resources for helping you create the marriage of your dreams at www.thedreammarriage.com
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
E10: How We Fought for (and Won Back) Quality Family Time
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
In this episode of the Dream Marriage podcast, Brian and Allison Dalke discuss how their family settles into a rhythm of Sabbath rest. It's not about religion; it's about how we were made for work and rest.
This one practice has drastically changed the Dalkes' marriage, work, life, and family time.
Links:
Annie Downs: That sounds fun podcast with John Mark Comer https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/january-2018-rhythms-sabbath-john-mark-comer/id944925529?i=1000399594293
John Mark Comer’s book Garden City https://a.co/d/5tIvg85
Email us anytime at thedreammarriagepodcast@gmail.com
Or checkout out our free resources for helping you create the marriage of your dreams at www.thedreammarriage.com
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
E9: Facebook, Fantasy Football, and your Marriage
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
In this episode of the Dream Marriage podcast, Brian and Allison Dalke discuss the benefit of having clear boundaries around the way you spend your time.
What would your family say is most important to you based on how you spend your time? Are you spending your time on things that are the best things for you and your future?
Brian and Allison discuss the things that take up our mental and physical time as well as emotional margin. They talk about everything from fantasy football to social media and even work and why boundaries around how we spend our time can ultimately give us more freedom.
How we spend our time cultivates who we become. Everything you spend your time on is a deposit towards who you’re ultimately becoming.
If you’re lacking margin and extra time, why? What is it that you’re spending your time doing?
Are you intentionally or unintentionally spending your time being busy doing things so you don’t have to think/process?
Anything that we can do too much can be bad for us.
As you assess the way you’re spending your time, ask yourself these questions:
Is it healthy?
Does it honor God?
Is it necessary?
Sometimes we need boundaries around a certain area of our lives for just a season.
One of the ways you can gauge where you might need some boundaries is where there is a tension spot in your day, in your soul, or with your partner.
Remember, as you honestly assess how you’re spending your time, give yourself grace.
What do you want to be known for? How we spend our time is how we build our legacy.
Email us anytime at thedreammarriagepodcast@gmail.com
Or checkout out our free resources for helping you create the marriage of your dreams at www.thedreammarriage.com
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
E8: What are you saying about your spouse to others?
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
In this episode of the Dream Marriage podcast, Brian and Allison Dalke discuss the power of your words. Your words have the power of life and death in your marriage.
Is it okay to “vent” about your spouse to others? Can you trust that your spouse only speaks positively about you when you’re not around?
They outline the things they never say about each other to other people and the only exceptions to this rule.
What habits do you have around the words you speak about your spouse?
One person in the relationship can make a change that positively impacts your relationship just by awakening to the words being spoken.
Plus, how do make a shift if you are in the habit of speaking about your spouse without honor? It’s simpler than you might think. And the results are marriage changing.
Email us anytime at thedreammarriagepodcast@gmail.com Or checkout out our free resources for helping you create the marriage of your dreams at www.thedreammarriage.com
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
E7: Opposite sex relationships: How close is too close?
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Boundaries 1: Opposite Sex Relationships
Could you cheat on your spouse?
In this episode of the Dream Marriage Podcast, Brian and Allison Dalke discuss appropriate boundaries between the opposite sex for married couples.
This conversation starts with the question, “Could you cheat on your spouse?” When they ask each other, Allison and Brian both answer, “YES!” And the reality is ANYONE could cheat on their spouse. Unfortunately, the lack of boundaries with the opposite sex is often how affairs start.
It’s unavoidable these days for men and women to co-mingle. They work together, go to their kids school events together, and so many other things. However, because men and women often see the precursor to sexual intimacy very differently, the lines get blurry on what is/isn’t appropriate between them. While this is tricky, it is possible to navigate it well.
They discuss what it looks like to have boundaries around relationships with the opposite sex and why those clear boundaries are necessary.
“As a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: What you create and what you allow.”- Dr. Henry Cloud
Psalm 16:6 The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; Yes, I have a good inheritance.
The Dalkes share the boundaries they have within their marriage and how those boundaries have created so much freedom, trust and peace.
Email us anytime at thedreammarriagepodcast@gmail.com
Or checkout out our free resources for helping you create the marriage of your dreams at www.thedreammarriage.com
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
E6: The Concept that Changed Everything in our Marriage
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
In this episode of the Dream Marriage podcast, Brian and Allison Dalke share the one concept that changed everything in their marriage. They discuss why “giving to get” doesn’t work, and how there’s a better way to love.
Hear the story of how they took their marriage from average to great with one simple idea, and how you can use the same idea today to have the marriage of your dreams. Get off the crazy cycle and discover what a marriage full of adoration and appreciation can truly look like.
Love and Respect by Dr. Eggerichs
https://a.co/d/h0FSRAi
Ephesians 5:22-33 https://www.bible.com/bible/114/EPH.5.NKJV
Genesis 2:24-25 https://www.bible.com/bible/114/GEN.2.NKJV
Email us anytime at thedreammarriagepodcast@gmail.com
Or checkout out our free resources for helping you create the marriage of your dreams at www.thedreammarriage.com
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
E5: How Your Spouse Experiences Love
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
In this episode of the Dream Marriage Podcast, Brian and Allison Dalke walk listeners through Gary Chapman’s 5 love languages and discuss how knowing and understanding your spouse’s love languages can help you love your spouse better. Love languages are about how we each individually express and experience love and typically, couples have different ways of expressing love to each other.
Listen and discover the power of knowing your spouse’s love language.
Gary Chapman’s The 5 Love Languages book
https://a.co/d/21nSqJv
Take the 5 Love Languages Test Here https://5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/love-language
Checkout our free resources to help you create your dream marriage at www.thedreammarriage.com or email us anytime at thedreammarriagepodcast@gmail.com
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
E4: Is Marriage a Covenant or a Contract?
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
In this episode of the Dream Marriage podcast, Brian and Allison Dalke discuss the vital differences between a covenant and a contract. Listen to find out how you view your marriage.
Is it a contract based on what one person does? Or is it a covenant based on unconditional love? And why does it even matter?
Genesis 2:21-24https://www.bible.com/bible/1/GEN.2.21-24.KJV
Matthew 19:3-9 https://www.bible.com/bible/1/MAT.19.KJV
Ephesians 5:22-32
https://www.bible.com/bible/114/EPH.5.NKJV
Why it’s essential for couples to dream together
Check out our free resources for creating your dream marriage at www.thedreammarriage.com or reach out via email anytime at thedreammarriagepodcast@gmail.com