The Mustard Seed Marriage Podcast

How does spiritual warfare affect your Christian marriage? In this episode of The Mustard Seed Marriage Podcast, Brittanie Mills, LMFT, explores how Satan can use conflict, resentment, pride, and unforgiveness to create division between husbands and wives. Discover how to recognize spiritual attacks on your marriage, pray for your spouse, put on the full armor of God, and strengthen your relationship through biblical principles, forgiveness, and Christ-centered communication. Learn practical ways to protect your Christian marriage, resist the enemy’s schemes, and keep Christ at the center of your relationship. Remember, your spouse is not your enemy—you are on the same team!
Listen to Episode #94 today to discover how prayer, faith, and God’s Word can help you stand firm against spiritual warfare and build a stronger, Christ-centered marriage. If this episode encourages you, share it with another Christian couple who needs this reminder!
To learn more about Brittanie, or to schedule a free 15 minute consultation, please visit her website at www.mustardseedchristiancounseling.com.
And for more mental health & marriage tips, please check out The Mustard Seed Counseling Blog.
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What happens when the marriage you imagined before saying “I do” doesn't look like the marriage you're actually living?
In this episode of The Mustard Seed Marriage Podcast, Brittanie Mills, LMFT, talks about the expectations many couples bring into marriage—and why those expectations sometimes need to change. From expecting your spouse to make you happy or always understand you to believing healthy couples never fight, these assumptions can create disappointment, resentment, and unnecessary conflict.
We’ll explore the difference between unrealistic marriage expectations and healthy expectations, including expectations around communication, romance, conflict, personal growth, forgiveness, and emotional connection. We’ll also look at marriage through a Christian perspective and consider what Scripture teaches us about love, humility, grace, forgiveness, and becoming one.
If your marriage doesn't look exactly like you expected, that doesn't necessarily mean something is wrong. Sometimes marriage requires us to exchange unrealistic expectations for a deeper understanding of love, commitment, grace, and growth.
Listen for practical ways to rethink your expectations and build a healthier, more Christ-centered marriage.
Scripture discussed: Genesis 2:24, Psalm 16:11, Matthew 7:3-5, Romans 12:10, 1 Corinthians 13, Ephesians 4:15, Colossians 2:10, Colossians 3:13, James 1:19-20, Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, Philippians 1:6, and Ephesians 5:2.
To learn more about Brittanie or to schedule a free 15 minute consultation, please visit her website at www.mustardseedchristiancounseling.com
For more mental health & marriage tips, please check out the Mustard Seed Counseling Blog.

What do you do when your husband’s faith is struggling? If your husband has become spiritually distant, stopped attending church, is questioning his beliefs, or seems to be struggling with his relationship with God, you may feel confused, worried, or unsure of how to respond.
In this episode of The Mustard Seed Marriage Podcast, Brittanie Mills, LMFT, talks with Christian wives about how to support a husband who is struggling spiritually without trying to control or manage his faith. Learn how to listen with curiosity, pray for your husband, maintain your own relationship with Christ, avoid shame and pressure, establish healthy boundaries, and continue nurturing your marriage during a season of spiritual struggle.
We’ll also explore the difference between supporting your husband’s faith journey and taking responsibility for it, as well as why spiritual leadership should never become spiritual control. If you’re wondering how to handle a husband who is struggling with faith, questioning God, or no longer participating in church, this episode offers practical encouragement and biblical perspective for navigating this challenging season in a Christian marriage.
Remember: you don’t have to fix your husband. You can pray, listen, love, set healthy boundaries, keep following Christ, and trust God with what you cannot control.
To learn more about Brittanie, or to schedule a free 15 minute consultation, please visit her website at www.mustardseedchristiancounseling.com.
For more mental health & marriage tips, please check out the Mustard Seed Counseling Blog.

What happens when your spouse doesn’t respect your faith?
In this episode of The Mustard Seed Marriage Podcast, Brittanie Mills, LMFT, explores the difference between spiritual disagreement and controlling or disrespectful behavior in a Christian marriage. Learn how to maintain your faith without trying to control your spouse, establish healthy boundaries, navigate disagreements about church and children, and respond with both truth and love. Brittanie also discusses when spiritual conflict becomes unhealthy or unsafe—and when Christian marriage counseling may be helpful. Most importantly, discover how you can remain faithful to God while loving your spouse well, even when you aren’t on the same page spiritually.
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To learn more about Brittanie Mills or to schedule a free 15 minute consultation, please visit her website at www.mustardseedchristiancounseling.com.
And for more mental health & marriage tips, please check out the Mustard Seed Counseling Blog.

What happens when your spouse walks away from God? Can a Christian marriage survive when husband and wife no longer share the same beliefs?
In this episode of The Mustard Seed Marriage Podcast, Brittanie Mills, LMFT, explores spiritual differences in marriage, what the Bible says about a believer married to an unbeliever, and how to navigate a spouse questioning or rejecting their Christian faith. Learn why you don’t have to win the theological argument, why Scripture should never be used as a weapon, and how to love your spouse without trying to control their spiritual journey.
Brittanie also addresses the challenges of raising children when parents have different beliefs, maintaining healthy boundaries, praying for your spouse, and knowing when Christian marriage counseling may be helpful.
If you’re struggling with faith differences in marriage, an unequally yoked marriage, or a spouse who no longer believes in God, this episode offers compassionate, practical, Christ-centered guidance for navigating this difficult season.
To learn more about Brittanie Mills, LMFT, or to schedule a free 15 minute consultation, please visit her website at www.mustardseedchristiancounseling.com.
And for more mental health & marriage tips, please check out the Mustard Seed Counseling Blog.

What should you do when your spouse stops going to church? Does it mean they’re walking away from God, or could something deeper be happening?
In this episode of The Mustard Seed Marriage Podcast, Brittanie Mills, LMFT, explores how to navigate spiritual differences in marriage when one spouse no longer wants to attend church. Your spouse may be experiencing church hurt, spiritual exhaustion, doubt, frustration with church, or a crisis of faith—and those situations require understanding rather than assumptions or pressure.
Learn how to communicate with your spouse about faith, listen with curiosity, avoid turning church attendance into a source of conflict, and maintain your own Christian faith without trying to control your spouse’s spiritual journey.
If you’re struggling with faith differences in marriage or wondering how to support a spouse who is pulling away from church, this episode offers practical, Christ-centered guidance for navigating this difficult season together.
This conversation continues in the next episode as we explore what happens when a spouse goes beyond simply leaving church and begins questioning or rejecting their Christian faith.
To learn more about Brittanie Mills or to schedule a free 15 minute consultation, please visit her website at www.mustardseedchristiancounseling.com.
And for more mental health & marriage tips, please check out the Mustard Seed Counseling Blog.

What do you do when you and your spouse disagree because you believe their decision, activity, or lifestyle choice goes against the Bible or doesn’t honor God? How should Christian couples handle spiritual disagreements in marriage without turning faith into a weapon?
In this episode of The Mustard Seed Marriage Podcast, Brittanie Mills, LMFT, explores how to navigate marriage disagreements and conflict from a Biblical perspective. You’ll learn how to distinguish between clear Biblical commands, personal convictions, preferences, and fears—and how to respond when you believe your spouse is making a spiritually unhealthy choice.
We’ll discuss Biblical marriage, Christian communication, healthy boundaries, submission, spiritual convictions, and what to do when you believe your spouse is actually sinning. Brittanie also shares 11 practical steps for handling spiritual disagreements, including how to examine your own heart, listen to your spouse, study Scripture together, pray for wisdom, avoid using God or the Bible as a weapon, seek wise Christian counsel, and recognize the difference between loving sacrifice and controlling behavior.
Most importantly, this episode challenges Christian couples to stop asking, “How do I get my spouse to agree with me?” and start asking, “How do we seek God together?”
Because a healthy Christian marriage isn't about winning every disagreement. It's about pursuing truth, love, humility, wisdom, and faithfulness to God together.
If you’re struggling with Christian marriage conflict, spiritual differences, Biblical boundaries, or disagreements about what honors God in your marriage, this episode is for you.
 
To learn more about Brittanie Mills or to schedule a free 15 minute consultation, please visit her website at www.mustardseedchristiancounseling.com.
And for more mental health & marriage tips, please check out the Mustard Seed Counseling Blog.

Disagreements are inevitable in marriage—but damaging each other doesn't have to be.
In this episode of The Mustard Seed Marriage Podcast, Brittanie Mills, LMFT, talks about how couples can learn to fight fair in marriage and handle conflict without damaging their connection. You'll learn how to disagree with your spouse respectfully, communicate your feelings without attacking, listen to understand rather than defend, take a healthy timeout, avoid bringing up the past as ammunition, and recognize when conflict has crossed the line into unhealthy or unsafe behavior.
For Christian couples, we'll also look at what Scripture teaches about anger, our words, listening, and treating our spouse with love and respect—even when we strongly disagree.
Because a healthy marriage isn't one where you never argue. It's one where you learn how to navigate conflict without becoming enemies.
You can disagree with your spouse and still choose each other.
For more information about Brittanie Mills, or to schedule a free 15 minute consultation, please visit her website at www.mustardseedchristiancounseling.com.
For more mental health & marriage tips, please check out the Mustard Seed Counseling Blog.

Suffering doesn't always bring a marriage closer. Sometimes, prolonged stress and hardship can erode boundaries, create unhealthy coping patterns, fuel resentment, and even threaten emotional and physical safety. In this episode of The Mustard Seed Marriage Podcast, Brittanie explores how suffering can become harmful in a marriage and why compassion does not mean tolerating unhealthy or unsafe behavior. With biblical wisdom and practical guidance, you'll learn how to balance grace with boundaries, love with truth, and support with accountability—and when seeking outside help is the wise and godly choice.
To learn more about Brittanie, or to schedule a free 15 minute consultation, please visit her website at www.mustardseedchristiancounseling.com.
For more mental health & marriage tips, please check out the Mustard Seed Counseling Blog.

Every marriage will face seasons of suffering—but those difficult seasons don't have to pull you apart. In this episode of The Mustard Seed Marriage Podcast, Brittanie explores how illness, grief, financial struggles, family challenges, and other hardships can actually create opportunities for deeper intimacy, compassion, spiritual connection, and sacrificial love. Discover how to stop fighting each other and start facing the struggle together, lean on God when you don't have the answers, and remember that you're on the same team. Even in the midst of the storm, your marriage doesn't have to stand alone.
To learn more about Brittanie, or to schedule a free 15 minute consultation, please visit her website at www.mustardseedchristiancounseling.com.
For more mental health & marriage tips, please check out the Mustard Seed Counseling Blog.