REAL-Lationship Toolbox: Recent Episodes
Cliff and Andrea Riley
Everybody deals with issues that can impact their key relationships. Each month, Marriage Service Technicians, Cliff and Andrea Riley, help you fine-tune your relationship skills for optimal health and maximum benefits. If you’re married, engaged, dating, or in a blended family and you want to improve the quality of your relationships, this podcast is for you.
In this episode of the REAL-Lationship Toolbox, the Marriage Service Technicians dive into the mind of Cliff Riley, as he preaches in his sleep – LITERALLY! The man eats, breathes, and sleeps marriage—as evidenced by this episode—and it’s always in his thoughts. Come along for the ride as the Rileys unpack his “sermon” on love, marriage, and strengthening relationships!
Show Highlights:
8:25 Pray with your spouse to know their thoughts, desires, and ways.
13:20 Everyone changes; we are not the same people we were in years past. You should allow your spouse the room to grow and evolve.
19:44 Seek to understand your spouse to truly see things from their perspective and feelings.
21:00 Let your partner thrive in their environment.
Links and Resources:
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The REAL-Lationship Toolbox has launched a new series entitled, Ask the Rileys, to address your most puzzling relationship issues. In today’s discussion, the Marriage Service Technicians respond to a couple facing problems with extended family members. The Rileys share their best advice for handling conflict when relatives overstep boundaries.
Ask the Rileys Your Questions
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Marriage Service Technicians 30-Day Prayer Challenge
In this episode, the Marriage Service Technicians share a powerful tool from their REAL-Lationship Toolbox and show couples how to use it to communicate their love on a deeper level. The Rileys reveal ways to speak your partner's language and create a more meaningful connection with your loved one. Cliff & Andrea invite you to join the #MST30DayChallenge to discover the secret to a fine-tuned relationship. Show Highlights:
- Master Key: Praying together is the “secret sauce” for a successful marriage.
- What is your love language? How do you prefer to give and receive love?
- Words of Affirmation: Saying supportive things
- Quality Time: Spending meaningful time together
- Acts of Service: Doing helpful things
- Physical Touch: Intimate or non-intimate touches, such as a hug or holding hands
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Receiving Gifts: Feeling loved because others are thinking about you
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How Praying Together can speak to any of The 5 Love Languages?
- Perfect Gift: Make a commitment to praying together.
Links and Resources:
The Marriage Service Technicians
The Marriage Service Technicians 30-Day Challenge
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The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
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On this episode of the REAL-Lationship Toolbox, Marriage Service Technicians, Cliff & Andrea Riley, share two steps on the Road to Recovery: Releasing and Reconnecting. Join the #MST30DayChallenge to discover the secret to a fine-tuned relationship and get your engines running!
Today’s special guests are James and Eugenia Coleman, who open up about their journey from hurting to healing. This intimate conversation provides hope for couples facing difficult challenges to believe that their relationships can be restored, and even thrive—despite the setbacks.
Show Highlights:
- On a mission: The Rileys are equipping relationships with tools to go the distance
- Discover the secret: How to develop a fine-tuned relationship that runs like a well-oiled machine
- Adultery to Unrealistic Expectations: The Colemans share examples of release, recovery
- Prepare, Pray, Obey: What the Colemans know now about marriage and role models
- New Level of Humility: Praying together opens up communication and creates intimacy for couples
Links and Resources:
The Marriage Service Technicians
The Marriage Service Technicians 30-Day Challenge
The Marriage ServiceTechnicians on Facebook
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The Marriage Service Technicians on YouTube
The Marriage Service Technicians Email
Our nation is grieving the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and others. Recent events have called attention to injustice, inequality, and systemic racism in our nation – all in the midst of a global pandemic that has inflicted its share of trauma. And African Americans have come face-to-face with 400-year-old wounds of generational trauma.
This episode is an in-depth discussion on what lamenting is, and how we can use it to pour out our pain to God and begin the process of healing.