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When you get married as newlyweds, you have goals, right, that you want to accomplish, whether they be advancing in your career or buying a home, traveling or even starting a family. In this episode, we're going to talk to a newlywed couple who has seen the benefits of putting God first in their marriage.
Welcome to Happy Life, a podcast brought to you by INC Media that aims to help newlyweds navigate through the first years of marriage. I'm Myrtle Alegado and I've been married to my husband Paul since 1999.
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Inspiration to make your marriage thrive, you're listening to Happy Life.
Myrtle Alegado: According to verywellmind.com, a top priority for newlyweds should be keeping the romance alive as mentioned in Dr. Houston’s study. Other than that, during the first year of marriage, couples need to settle many things, including how to allocate and handle money.
On lifehack.org, they said that goals will help your marriage to thrive, and a couple of things to prioritize our financial goals, goals for your relationship as well as family health goals.
The newlyweds I'd like to introduce you all to are Christine and Marc, all the way from Sydney, Australia. Christine is a friend of mine and my colleague at INC Media. Good day, Marc and Christine, how are things in the Land of Oz?
Christine Afenir: Hi, Myrtle.
Marc Afenir: Good day, Myrtle. I'm loving the Aussie accent there. Well done.
Myrtle Alegado: I'm so glad I thought you were going to cringe and say how horrible because, you know, I'm really bad at accents. But I thought I'd give it a shot.
Marc Afenir: Let’s just say that it's good that you’re not recording video right now.
Myrtle Alegado: I cry, I cry. Well, how are you both doing? You know, down there, I think the weather is opposite from here in North America. Right?
Marc Afenir: It is actually. It's winter here right now. So you know everything in Australia being upside down compared to the northern hemisphere. So whatever you have, we have in reverse so yeah, but we're doing well. And we're keeping warm during lockdown so.
Myrtle Alegado: Oh, still in lockdown. Wow. Okay. Well, glad to hear you're doing well. For those who don't know you, would you mind sharing a little bit about how you two met?
Christine Avenir: So, funny story. We actually met at the KADIWA formal, a Church event that was happening in London in 2008. We actually didn't interact with each other. We were there with kind of our own friends. And yeah, Marc traveled all the way from Australia to be there as well.
Marc Afenir: Yeah, that was also a very last minute trip for me. So I was working full time at an ad agency and kind of asked my boss who was also from the UK. And I think that kind of helped me get over the line to get my leave approved. But I told her I was going to London for about a week.
And we met there, but we didn't really talk. So that was like she said back in 2008. So, it was close to a decade later that we started talking to each other. Like we've heard of each other, because we've worked in media. So Christine's been in INC Media since I think 2011 and I started around that time helping the bureau here in Sydney. She was in San Francisco. I've heard her name thrown around, be it she was a producer for some shows. But it wasn't until, like,
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