Expedition Marriage with Chris & Jamie Bailey

By Expedition Marriage with Chris & Jamie Bailey

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Welcome to the Expedition Marriage Podcast! We're Chris and Jamie Bailey, Christian marriage coaches who each hold a master's degree in professional counseling, with over 20 years helping couples build Christ-centered marriages. We're here to help you put God at the center of your marriage by sharing solid biblical truth along with practical marriage tips. So no matter where you are in your marriage, start getting excited — because we're here to help you Enjoy the Journey!

Episode Date
Ep. 198: Marriage Myths- What Nobody Tells You About the First 10 Years of Marriage
Oct 01, 2026
Ep. 197: Relief Isn't Restoration: What Are You Settling for in Your Marriage?
Sep 17, 2026
Ep. 196: God Designed Sex for Connection—So Why Aren't Christians Talking About It?
Sep 10, 2026
Ep. 195: When Your Kids Make Choices You Don't Agree With
Aug 27, 2026
Ep. 194: Marriage Will Change You (And That's the Point)
Aug 20, 2026
Ep. 193: Before You Cut Off a Parent: Boundaries & Biblical Reconciliation
Aug 13, 2026
Ep. 192: The Family You Grew Up In Is Shaping Your Marriage (Whether You Realize It or Not)
Aug 06, 2026
Ep. 191: Your Health Is Worship: Why God Cares About Your Health as a Couple More Than You Think
Jul 30, 2026
Ep. 190: Can You Master Your Marriage? The Skills Every Couple Needs
Jul 23, 2026
Ep 189: How to Build a Marriage That Keeps Getting Better
Jul 16, 2026
Ep. 188: The Marriage Principle Most Couples Ignore
Jul 09, 2026
Ep. 187: The Window of Tolerance in Marriage: Why Couples Keep Having the Same Fight
Jul 02, 2026
Ep. 186: Why So Many Couples End Up Living Like Roommates (And How to Reconnect)
Jun 25, 2026
Ep. 185: Marriage 2.0? Why God's Design Doesn't Need an Upgrade
Jun 18, 2026
Ep. 184: Why Better Is Making You Miserable
Jun 11, 2026
Ep. 183: Why You Keep Seeing the Worst in Your Spouse
May 28, 2026
Episode 182: Your Communication Isn't the Real Problem in Marriage
May 21, 2026
Ep. 181
: We Love Each Other But Our Friendship is Gone
May 14, 2026
Ep. 180: Is Technology Rewiring Your Kids? 5 Habits Every Parent Needs Today with Chris McKenna
May 07, 2026
Ep 179: Is Technology Replacing Your Spouse? The Rise of False Intimacy in Marriage
Apr 23, 2026
Ep 178: Pivoting in Marriage: The One Skill That Changes Everything
Apr 16, 2026
Ep. 177: Why Blended Family Marriage Feels So Hard (And What Actually Helps) | Ron Deal
Apr 02, 2026
Ep. 176: When Wives Carry Too Much: Letting Go of Control and Trusting God in Marriage
Mar 26, 2026
Ep. 175: Not Fixing Things Too Fast: Why Emotional Validation Matters in Marriage
Mar 19, 2026
Ep 174: Perimenopause, Menopause & Marriage: How Hormones Affect Your Relationship (With Dr. Gretchen Reis)
Mar 12, 2026
Ep. 173: Communication in Marriage: 7 Mistakes Couples Don't Realize They're Making
Mar 05, 2026
Ep. 172: Marriage, Autism, and Faith: Raising a child with special needs together
Feb 26, 2026
Ep. 171: Our Trials. His Testimony: Finding Hope and Redemption Through the Hardest Seasons of Our Marriage
Feb 19, 2026
Ep. 170: Why Christian Couples Stop Talking and How to Fix It
Feb 12, 2026
Ep. 169: Do You Feel Special in Your Marriage?
Feb 05, 2026
Ep. 168: The War Inside Your Marriage - And How to Win It Together
Jan 29, 2026
Ep. 167: A Biblical Playbook for Marriage: Simple Strategies That Change Everything
Jan 22, 2026
Ep 166: When Your Heart Grieves Before Anything Happens: Understanding Anticipatory Grief in Marriage
Jan 15, 2026
Ep. 165: Why You Shouldn't Always Take Our Advice (And How to Let God Lead You in the Timing of Growth)
Jan 08, 2026
Ep. 164: Dry Seasons in Marriage - How to Navigate the Wilderness Together
Dec 11, 2025
Ep. 163: Becoming a PhD of Your Spouse: How to Recognize Stress Cues and Respond with Love
Dec 04, 2025
Ep. 162: Letting Go — Trusting God with Your Kids
Nov 20, 2025
Ep. 161: The Lost Art of Sacrifice
Nov 13, 2025
Ep. 160: Just a Little Bit Better: Small Shifts That Move the Needle in Marriage
Nov 06, 2025
Ep. 159: When Marriage Hurts: Why Joy Still Matters
Oct 30, 2025
Ep. 158: Breaking the Usual Error — How Assumptions Sabotage Your Marriage and What God Says About It
Oct 23, 2025
Ep. 157: When Your Husband Doesn't Share Your Faith — Hope for Spiritually Unequal Marriages
Oct 16, 2025
Ep. 156: Curiosity Over Offense — How Staying Spiritually Mature Can Transform Your Marriage
Oct 09, 2025
Ep. 155: Healing Your Marriage After Chronic Illness
Oct 02, 2025
Ep. 154: When Love Feels Like a Roller Coaster: Understanding the Vacillator in Marriage
Sep 25, 2025
Ep. 153: When One of You Can't Say No: Understanding the Pleaser in Marriage
Sep 18, 2025
Ep. 152: When One of You Shuts Down: Understanding the Avoider in Marriage
Sep 11, 2025
Ep. 151: Letting Go of Control: Trusting God with Your Marriage and Your Spouse
Sep 04, 2025
Ep. 150: Powerful Emotions Meant to Be Experienced in Your Marriage
Aug 28, 2025
Ep. 149: The Different Decades of Marriage — Every Season Has a Purpose
Aug 21, 2025
Ep. 148: How to Use Your Marriage as Your Best Parenting Tool
Aug 14, 2025
Ep. 147: Safe and Sound: How to Co-Regulate in Marriage and Become Each Other's Safe Place
Aug 07, 2025
Ep. 146:
Leaving and Cleaving: What It Really Means and Why It Still Matters in Marriage
Jul 31, 2025
Ep. 145: Storm Proofing Your Marriage
Jul 24, 2025
Ep. 144: Is Your Emotional Bucket Overflowing? How to Recognize and Release Emotional Flooding in Marriage
Jul 10, 2025
Ep. 143: Is Jesus Just a Guest in Your Marriage?
Jul 03, 2025
Ep. 142: When You're Fighting for Your Marriage Alone
Jun 26, 2025
Ep 141: Learning to Wait Well. Patience, Faith and God's Timing in Marriage
Jun 19, 2025
Ep. 140: When the Past Shows Up Uninvited: Understanding Implicit Memory in Marriage
Jun 11, 2025
Ep. 139: Out with the Old, In with the New: How to Renew Your Marriage God's Way
Jun 05, 2025
Ep. 138: When Fools Rush in: What Proverbs Teaches Us About Conflict
May 29, 2025
Ep. 137: Feeling Angry, Anxious, or Discouraged in Your Marriage? Let's Talk About It!
May 22, 2025
Ep. 136: Games People Play in Marriage: Breaking Free from Relational Patterns
May 15, 2025
Ep. 135: Is Your Phone Silencing What Matters Most?
May 08, 2025
Ep. 134: First Things First, How to protect your marriage in life's hard and busy seasons
May 01, 2025
Ep. 133: Midlife Marriage Check-In: 5 Questions to Strengthen Your Marriage
Sep 26, 2024
Ep. 132: Boundaries and the Nervous System
Sep 19, 2024
Ep. 131: Betrayal Trauma and the Nervous System
Sep 12, 2024
Ep. 130: Nervous System Regulation in Marriage with Dr. Christine Baker
Sep 05, 2024
Ep. 129: Freedom from a Mediocre Marriage
Jul 04, 2024
Ep. 128: Creating an Emotionally Healthy Home
Jun 27, 2024
Ep 127: Learning to Embrace Change as a Couple
Jun 20, 2024
Ep. 126: From Chaos to Commitment: Our Marriage Journey
Jun 13, 2024
Ep. 125: Handling Disappointment as a Couple
Apr 04, 2024
Ep. 124: Your Marriage Mindset Matters
Mar 28, 2024
Ep. 123: Hot Take on the Five Love Languages
Feb 15, 2024
Ep. 122: Reasons to Focus on Yourself in a Struggling Marriage
Feb 08, 2024
Ep. 121: Is Your Marriage Emotionally Exhausting You?
Feb 01, 2024
Ep. 120: Is Gaslighting in the Bible?
Jan 25, 2024
Ep. 119: Unscripted – Going Deeper on Our Most Popular Instagram Posts
Jan 18, 2024
Ep. 118: Don't Let These Deathbed Regrets Affect Your Marriage Part 2
Jan 11, 2024
Ep. 117: Don't Let the Death Bed Regrets Affect your Marriage (Part 1)
Jan 04, 2024
Ep. 116: Are you a Peace-Maker or Peace-Keeper
Dec 14, 2023
Ep. 115: How to Support Your Adult Children During the Holidays and Still Have Joy with Special Guest Pamela Hinkelman
Dec 07, 2023
Ep. 114: Weekend Fights and How to Stop Them
Nov 30, 2023
Ep. 113: Things That Undermine an Apology
Nov 16, 2023
Ep. 112: Can You Trust Your Spouse Again?
Nov 09, 2023
Ep. 111: Dangerous Assumptions that Kill Connection
Nov 02, 2023
Ep. 110: Get Out of That Marriage Funk
Oct 26, 2023
Ep. 109: Learning to Love Each Other Again
Oct 19, 2023
Ep. 108: Unexpected Scriptures for Your Marriage
Oct 12, 2023
Ep. 107: Creating Oneness in Marriage
Oct 05, 2023
Ep. 106 Building Resiliency in Your Marriage
Sep 28, 2023
Ep. 105: Supporting Personal Growth in Your Spouse
Sep 21, 2023
Ep. 104: Building a Strong Marriage
Sep 14, 2023
Ep. 103: When Busy is TOO Busy
Sep 07, 2023
Ep. 102: How to Fight Against the Enemy in Your Marriage
Jun 08, 2023
Ep. 101: The Benefits of Marriage
Jun 01, 2023
Ep. 100: Finding Grace in the Gray with special guest Mike Donehey
May 11, 2023
Ep. 99: How to Keep the Sparks Alive
May 04, 2023
Ep. 98: How to Have a Joy-Filled Marriage
Apr 27, 2023
Ep. 97: How to Deal with a Grumpy Spouse
Apr 20, 2023
Ep. 96: Is My Marriage Over? (Part 2)
Apr 06, 2023
Ep. 95: Is My Marriage Over? (Part 1 of 2)
Mar 30, 2023
Ep. 94: Bad Trades in Marriage
Mar 23, 2023
Ep. 93: Sins in Marriage: Does Your Marriage Have Them? (Part 2 of 2)
Mar 16, 2023
Ep. 92: Sins in Marriage: Does Your Marriage Have Them?
Mar 09, 2023
Ep. 91: Working Through Forgiveness and Finding Joy Again
Mar 02, 2023
Ep. 90: Marriage or Kids First?
Feb 23, 2023
Ep. 89: When Your Husband Won't Pray with You
Feb 16, 2023
Ep. 88: The Best Gift You Can Give Your Spouse
Feb 09, 2023
Ep. 87: Things to Share with Your Spouse (Part 2)
Feb 02, 2023
Ep. 86: Things to Share with Your Spouse (Part 1)
Jan 26, 2023
Ep. 85: What Exactly is a Help Mate?
Jan 19, 2023
Ep. 84: Are Negative Thoughts Affecting your Marriage?
Jan 12, 2023
Ep. 83: Navigating Holiday Finances without all the Stress with Julie Baumgardner
Nov 17, 2022
Ep. 82: Say it Like you Mean it- A Reminder Every Couple Needs
Nov 10, 2022
Ep.81: How to Deal with a Defensive Spouse
Nov 03, 2022
Ep. 80: How to Get Your Spouse to Open Up to You
Oct 20, 2022
Ep. 79: Sex in the Empty Nest
Oct 13, 2022
Ep. 78: Don't Let the Kids Kill Your Romance
Oct 06, 2022
Ep. 77: Bad Reasons to Divorce
Sep 22, 2022
EP. 76: Must Have Marriage Habits
Sep 15, 2022
Ep. 75: Spiritual Leadership
Sep 08, 2022
Ep. 74: What to do with Triggers
Sep 01, 2022
Ep. 73: Stop Creating a Life You Want to Escape
Aug 18, 2022
EP. 72: 20 Lies That Keep You With Your Abuser with Dr. David E Clarke
Aug 04, 2022
Ep. 71: Is My Marriage Healthy?
Jul 21, 2022
Ep. 70: Enough is Enough - Interview with Dr. David E Clarke PhD
Jul 07, 2022
Ep. 69: Living out Scripture in your Marriage
Jun 23, 2022
Ep. 68: How to Have a Marriage that Makes an Impact
Jun 09, 2022
Ep. 67: Why you Must Stop Hiding your Problems
May 26, 2022
Ep. 66: The Truth about Nagging and Complaining
May 19, 2022
Ep. 65: What We Didn't Know About Marriage
May 12, 2022
Ep. 64: Beware of These Relationship Killers
May 05, 2022
Ep. 63: Are You or Your Spouse Highly Sensitive?
Apr 28, 2022
Ep. 62: Is your Marriage Problem Focused or Purpose Focused?
Apr 21, 2022
Ep. 61: When your Spouse has Chronic Pain
Apr 14, 2022
Ep. 60: Are You Disconnected in Your Marriage
Apr 07, 2022
Ep. 59: The Problem with Right Fighting
Mar 31, 2022
Ep. 58: When your Husband won't go to Counseling
Mar 24, 2022
Ep. 57: Do you Need Marriage Counseling?
Mar 17, 2022
Ep. 56: How to Support your Spouse in Need
Mar 10, 2022
Ep. 55: Avoiders in Marriage
Mar 03, 2022
Ep. 54: What Adult Children Need from You
Feb 24, 2022
Ep. 53: Why Married Couples Need Friends
Feb 17, 2022
Ep. 52: How to Know if You are a People Pleaser in Your Marriage
Feb 10, 2022
Ep. 51: What Happened to Us? How to Become Best Friends Again
Feb 03, 2022
Ep. 50: Bad Marriage Advice, Part 2. Sex & Pornography Edition
Jan 27, 2022
Ep. 49: Don't Listen to This! Bad Marriage Advice, Part 1
Jan 20, 2022
Ep. 48: Do you Avoid Conflict? Find out Why!
Jan 13, 2022
Ep. 47: Special Episode - Jamie's Redemption Story
Jan 10, 2022
Ep. 46: The Essentials of an Emotionally Healthy Home
Jan 06, 2022
Ep. 45: How to Have the Best New Year as a Couple
Dec 16, 2021
Ep. 44: Setting Boundaries with In-Laws
Dec 09, 2021
Ep. 43: Holiday Stress - Tips to De-stress this Christmas
Dec 02, 2021
Ep. 42: Help! My Spouse's Flaws Drive Me Nuts!
Nov 18, 2021
Ep. 41: How to Help My Spouse with Anxiety - Part 2 of 2
Nov 11, 2021
Ep. 40: How to Help My Spouse with Anxiety - Part 1 of 2
Nov 04, 2021
Ep. 39: Sowing and Reaping in Marriage
Oct 28, 2021
Ep. 38: Dealing with Change as a Couple
Oct 21, 2021
Ep. 37: Exhausted Parents Still Need Date Nights
Jul 22, 2021
Ep. 36: BONUS! Affair Recovery
Jun 17, 2021
Ep. 35: Help! My Husband had an Affair!
Jun 17, 2021
Ep. 34: What Husbands Want From Their Wives
Jun 10, 2021
Ep. 33: What Wives Need to Know about Husbands and Failure
May 20, 2021
Ep 32: What's Up with this "Gray Divorce" Trend?
May 13, 2021
Ep. 31: What Wives Really Want
May 06, 2021
Bonus: Nice vs Kind
May 06, 2021
Ep. 30: Growing Old Together
Apr 29, 2021
Ep. 29: Why How You Grew Up Matters
Apr 22, 2021
Ep 28: Planting Seeds in your Children
Apr 15, 2021
Ep 27: Don't Just Go Through it, Grow Through it
Apr 08, 2021
Ep. 26: Growth for the Passive Husband
Apr 01, 2021
Ep: 25 The Best Marriage Advice
Mar 25, 2021
Ep 24: 5 Things You Can Learn about Marriage from Chip & Joanna
Mar 18, 2021
Ep 23 Spring Cleaning Your Marriage
Mar 11, 2021
Ep. 22: Marriage Under Stress
Mar 04, 2021
Ep. 21: Part 4 – How to L.O.V.E. your Way Through Conflict
Feb 25, 2021
Ep. 20: Part 3 - How to L.O.V.E. your Way Through Conflict
Feb 18, 2021
Ep. 19: How to L.O.V.E. your way through Conflict - Part 2
Feb 11, 2021
Ep. 18: How to L.O.V.E. your way through Conflict
Feb 04, 2021
Ep. 17: Let's Talk about Sex
Jan 28, 2021
Ep. 16 Expectations & Assumptions (part 3 of Communication Killers & their Kryptonite)
Jan 21, 2021
Ep. 15 : It's Not Just WHAT You Say (Part 2 of Communication Killers & Their Kryptonite series)
Jan 14, 2021
Ep. 14 : Communication Dead Ends (Part 1 of Communication Killers & Their Kryptonite Series)
Jan 07, 2021
Ep. 13: A Year to Remember
Dec 17, 2020
Ep 12: Boundaries During the Holidays
Dec 10, 2020
Ep. 11: Holiday Stress
Dec 03, 2020
Ep.10: Gratitude, God & Science
Nov 19, 2020
Ep. 9: Walking in an Attitude of Gratitude
Nov 12, 2020
Ep. 8: The 7 Year Itch. Is it a thing?
Nov 05, 2020
Ep. 7: Masks in Marriage. Are you wearing one?
Oct 29, 2020
Ep. 6: Keeping Love Alive
Oct 22, 2020
Ep. 5: Technology in Marriage
Oct 15, 2020
Ep. 4: What Not to Say to Your Spouse
Oct 07, 2020
Ep. 3: The Power of Praying for Your Spouse
Oct 07, 2020
Ep. 2: 3 Expectations in Marriage
Oct 07, 2020
Ep. 1: Our Why
Oct 07, 2020
Helping You Enjoy the Journey of Marriage
Sep 22, 2020