130: How To Communicate When You Don't Feel Financially Secure As A Wife
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- Vocation originally meant a person's calling from God upon their life. The new culturally embraced Webster's dictionary definition of vocation is "a strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation."
This distortion is commonplace amidst our culture as we run further and further away from what God would have for us and just embrace our feelings. We need to resist this and run to His word as the grounding for our life and family. Only then can we see the true calling upon our lives correctly as husbands, wives, and children.
Join Katie & Kyla as they discuss their callings as wives in regards to finances and communication in the episode of the Now That We're A Family Podcast!
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I went shopping with my husband after listening and he picked out a $10 item which I thought should be researched first. I thought of this conversation and realized it wasn’t worth my fighting over it. It was a much more pleasant way to go! Thanks for the encouragement to love and respect our husbands in this way.
Yay! Glad this idea helped you like it helped us.
I totally relate- to scrimping and stressing for no reason. Then seeing husband buy something and feeling upset and resentful! Communication is key!!
Awe! I love when you and Kyla collaborate! I wish you guys lived closer together! I can really attest to this as well. My husband and I got married as very young and completely broke college students. I didn’t mind so much at first, but once we had our first child, I felt the need to become really controlling over our finances, and it caused to much tension and I think I really stunted my husband’s confidence and growth. When I came into the faith a few years ago, I decided to fully give my trust to The Lord and to trust my husband as the provider. I can’t believe what an incredible change it made in him! Now he is incredible and so responsible and motivated to provide for our family. While he isn’t a believer (yet! He and God are working it out) but even me stepping into my biblical role as his helper and his biggest cheerleader changed everything!
What a great testimony Skyla, thanks for sharing!
Thanks that really encouraged me.
Loved and appreciated this conversation ! The wisdom shared is priceless 🙌🏼 would love to hear more encouraging talks about being a biblical wife from the pair of you together thanks for sharing!
Thanks! We enjoyed doing it. Hope we can do it again.
im a sahm, my issue is the opposite - my husband will complain about me spending an extra $5, mind you i dont even own makeup or buy anything costly, i stopped being high maintenance to feel like less of a burden to my husband and he still continues to cut our grocery bill even tho im pregnant LMAO. He controls all the money, he wont let me see how much he has, and we are NOT broke yall, he buys things on amazon every single week
Yes many women might have very high demands on what a provision looks like
I really enjoyed this conversation. I have definitely struggled in this area, but never thought about it in this way before. Thank you ladies so much for sharing ❤️
Glad it was helpful!
Stewarding vs controlling
So good. Thank you
Where did you buy that cute blue dress or romper?
I wish I came upon this podcast a few months ago....now it's too late.
Thank you, this is a truly great message. I completely agree with this approach, although it is definitely easier said than done! My husband and I sometimes have different approaches to spending, and when I speak up, it can create a wall of hostility and tension. I realized it's not even worth it. Better to let him spend the money, to trust him, and to have peace at the end of the day. Have you heard of the author Laura Doyle and read either of her books "The Surrendered Wife" or "The Empowered Wife"? I'm just asking because what you're saying here is very in line with how she recommends dealing with finances as the wife. Although her works are not explicitly Christian, I would highly recommend reading them because she has some great suggestions for wives (called The 6 Intimacy Skills) that are counterintuitive for maintaining peace and harmony in marriage, and they are mostly in line with Biblical principles. She also has a weekly podcast called "The Empowered Wife." She uses the word "empowered" in her titles basically to describe how the wife really does have a lot of influence on the culture of the relationship, and just by cleaning up her side of the street she can greatly improve things in her marriage. At first I was hesitant to follow suggestions from a book that was not specifically Christian, however, her stuff really works to bring about a better marriage! I've tried it and it's made me a much better wife, I'm happier, and so is my whole family.