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Forever and Always: Navigating the Challenges and Celebrating the Triumphs of a 24-Year Marriage Part 2
Welcome to another enriching episode of "Everyday I Grow." Today, we're delving deep into the journey of a remarkable couple—Dione and Nolan—as they share the secrets behind their 24 years of a thriving marriage. Join us as Nolan underscores the significance of two people becoming one, while managing personal and work-related stresses separately. We'll explore their strategies for safeguarding privacy, setting boundaries, and prioritizing precious time together.
Our conversation then takes a reflective turn with Dionne, discussing the manifestation of their wedding vows and how their goals have evolved over two decades, expressing immense gratitude for their journey. We'll also unpack the importance of sex in marriage, likened to the vital role of blood in our bodies, and delve into the shifting dynamics of intimacy as we age.
For young listeners considering marriage, Dionne and Nolan offer invaluable advice on self-discovery, building solid friendships, and setting and achieving goals as a couple. They emphasize the power of communication, intention, and trust in God as foundational pillars. Tune in as we navigate the importance of commitment, maintaining an emotional connection, and adapting to life's changes together. Get ready for an inspiring conversation that promises to enrich your views on love, intimacy, and partnership.
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Every day I know every day I grow and every day I see each I'm who I'm meant to be every day every day hello, hello, hello and welcome to everyday I grow. I told you I really, really love that song. And if you can go over to Spotify, search for Flowey Flow E and listen to her album. This is the best song on the album. But please don't tell her I said that today. Again, friend. This is part two with Dione and Nolan Ridgard. There is so much to unpack for 24 years of marriage and what is the secret that makes them grow.
So far we've heard about early communication, finding out what's in the person's heart when you're courting. And I don't know if people really think about courting. I should say they just date. But find out what's in the person's heart and see if you can live with what's in the person's heart if you can live with where the person is going. Nolan stated that regardless of what they went through, they knew that this is forever. He also talked about forgiving each other, that they need to forgive each other when inevitable conflict comes. And we left off when he talked about identifying the intrusive force is important, and I'm going to let him go on a little about that. But welcome back, Dion and Nolan.
Thank you, Nolan. We left off where you said, identifying the intrusive force in whatever conflict, whatever situation is happening, is important. Why do you think that's important?
Because in order for a marriage to work, it has to be about two people becoming one. It cannot be about three people becoming one or ten people becoming one is two people becoming one. And even though you have children and we have three, and I have relatives, siblings, who have twelve children with their spouse, no matter how much work it takes to raise twelve children, it's still about two people becoming one and making sure that that oneness is effective enough to extend to the multitudes. You know, many times we find ourselves spending so much time solving the world's problem, whether it is in a religious space or in business or in commerce or in counseling or whatever it is. We can do so much for so many. I yet when we come home, we don't have anywhere to lay our head. We may have been able to make enough money to afford a lovely bed, but when we lie down, we are not at peace with each other because there are other stuff in the bed with us, as it were. And this does not necessarily mean that it is a result of a person being in the bed, just kind of a thing, speaking about infidelity or anything like that.
But there are so many things that can come between us. You know, there's a story of a man, and I learned so much from this story. A man was coming home from work one evening, and long story short, he was looking forward to get home, but his truck broke down and he had to get help from somebody to bring him home. And when he got to the house, the gentleman that brought him home saw him go over to a tree, spent a minute and threw his hands over on the tree and then walked away. And the man said, what was that? And the guy said, that's my trouble tree. And that is me leaving today's trouble on the tree because I don't want to take today's troubles with me inside the house.
Wow.
And he said, when I'm leaving tomorrow, I'll take it up again. I will take it from there. So all that stuff with the vehicle breaking down and all the other challenges that I had for the day, that's not from my wife, that's not from my family. I leave that on the tree. And, you know, if I were to get biblical, the Bible says, cast the cares on him, cast it on the Lord, give it to him, I'll leave it there. Also, I've learned that sometimes I go out, and as the answer, sometimes the conflicts arise because we go out helping people, whether it be in a religious spiritual setting, or sometimes we out counseling, and especially the counseling ones. I have realized that when you go out there to do good, then whatever it is that constitutes evil in the minds of persons, there is something. There is a real force called evil, whatever name we want to put on it.
But the evil comes because we are so vulnerable because of the situations that we have interacted with throughout the day. And so my family knows that when I go out there to try, and we had. I had one of them really rigorous sessions where it was done, it was over, and we managed to spend some time and we leave with some glimmer of hope that something positive is going to take place. We have seen quite a bit of that, have to give God thanks for that. That when I come home, I can't talk. I may not even want to eat. And I just need to be alone for a little bit. And I've had to do the trouble tree thing.
So when I get home, I stay in the car. And I don't necessarily put anything on a tree, but I put. I put it where, you know, we're supposed to put it, I leave, mister, and misses whoever problem on you, you solve it, you deal with it. It's not my business. It's not my wife's business, not my children's business. I'm going home. And sometimes I just need a little time to just recover from that and recoup and get a tall drink and watch something, you know, and recover. And they know that they should give me a little time to start that out.
Sometimes we allow intrusions by not making time. It's kind of funny. The other day we said, you know what? There's a particular place that we are not going to go dating anymore because it's too public. And our children realize that anytime we go to certain spaces, everybody knows us. So we sat in this cafe. Won't call the name of the cafe, but it's a public cafe. All right, we're gonna get a sandwich, we're gonna get some juice, and just sit and, you know, spend some time with each other. We said, we need to talk.
And, you know, we sat there and we just managed to finish the food before. We just said hi to somebody who we had not seen for a long time. And the children lived overseas, so the children really had not seen for many years. We know the guy, the guy lives in Jamaica, but we said, you know, we just need to see the children that we had not seen them since they were yehi. And so they came over and we talked and then said, yeah, let me take a picture with you. I'm gonna show off on our friends. These were church babies saying she wanted.
To, you know, bizarre.
And immediately from that to a conversation with the parents, and it went on and on and on and on. And before we know it, we were there for over an hour, just. Just chit chatting. And I said, wow, that was. That was interesting. But that was not our date, so. Okay, I guess we need to hide. And sometimes, too, you have situations where you have to be very purposeful about what you're doing.
So a friend of mine came up with a phrase. He's also a minister. And he said he realized that whenever he goes out with his wife and he gets a phone call and he said, I'm out on date night with my wife, the people said, oh, okay. All right. And they continue the conversation. Nobody says, oh, I'm sorry. And the idea came to him. He said, whenever they call, he says, I'm at an executive appointment.
When he says that, everybody's like, oh, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry to disturb you. Etc. Etc. And like, wow. In other words, people don't think your time is important until you put some kind of importance on it. You have to make people realize that your time, your space, especially if you can establish pattern. Sometimes it's not easy, but after a while, people get to understand that, listen, don't call them on that time, don't call them at that day.
If you ring the phone, you're not going to get anybody there. I'm not going to answer. It's going to go straight to the answering machine because they are not available. And so after a while, you set the boundaries, you set the pace, and you make people aware of what it is that you are about. And that is something that will eventually help. Everybody has an emergency, and if you follow every emergency, you won't get anything done for yourself. And so, you know, sometimes everything has to be done right now. Right now, right now.
But what you also need to be done, you also need to be taken care of. So you have to make each other a priority. You know, we operate in a world where people believe that what you do for them is your priority, when the truth is that you have to find a way to preserve yourself in order to be able to help them even better. So, you know, when you tell somebody, I'm not available tomorrow, or I won't be available in the morning, can you see me in the evening? They have to learn to respect that. You can't control how people will feel in every case, but after a while, people will respect what you have set up around yourself.
This is something that I have been focusing on, and that's be intentional. And, you know, Nolan, I like that you say date night. You have to be intentional when you're doing date night. So you can't go to the place that you know that everybody know you. But this is Mobi, so I don't know how many people.
We go to Kinston and book up people same way, just other places.
We need to go to Clarendon, actually.
Because we don't have any young ones at the house except for the two dogs, but they don't count. I have had to institute no technology night.
Yeah. So that's critical.
So we probably don't go out for the date, but we put away all technology. We play Ludo or we play Scrabble or we paint or whatever it is that we can come up with. And that is being intentional. Deciding that, okay, this is what we're going to do. We've also been intentional in going walking with each other because this allows us to spend time and to talk to each other because you're at home and you're doing this and doing that. So, yes, Nolan, I like that. And I love that you said not making time is one of those intrusive forces, because in today's world, we are so busy. Even as a pastor, Dionne is so busy, caught up with this and that, and then she comes home, and then there's the kids, and you have to deal with the animals and the fruits and the pear and all of that kind of stuff.
So, listeners, what I hear them saying is, you have to be intentional in making time for each other. This is one of their secrets as well, for being married for 24 years. And date night is important. So you guys have answered a lot of my questions. So how do you continue to support each other's individual goals and dreams within the context of your marriage?
Well, what we do is look back at some of the dreams and the goals we have, the vision board, and what we want to achieve over a particular period, probably for the year. We write a lot, but sometimes we do lose the information, but we try to look back at some of the goals that we set, some of the targets that we want to achieve over a period of time. And then we'll sit and say, all right, were we able to accomplish this? One of our biggest target was to complete the rules for our children. And so we made a lot of sacrifices. We sat and we said, okay, how are we going to achieve this goal? And so we had to make sacrifices, like taking trips overseas or certain things. I said, all right, we were focusing on completing this project. And, you know, the good thing, too, is getting the children involved. We have a very long driveway, and we are night people.
So a lot of times we will come home very late at night and we'd have to come out of the car, open the gate and that kind of thing. And we said, no, we always have been confessing it. We want automatic gates. And, you know, I think it was 2019. We said, by December 2019, we are going to get our gate. And we kept on saying it. I would say to the children, and we started building our face and believing, God, we don't know how it happened, you know, and I remember the Lord work it out for us to get the gate to just work it out. And I remember Jubilee saying to us, this is our last child.
And she went, we didn't tell them, you know, what we were doing. We never said anything to them. Rita said, we're going to surprise them. They're going, come home and see the gate. And when she came home and she said, she said, we have been saying to the Lord that this is what we wanted, and the Lord came true for us. That was her expression. And so we get them involved in our goals and what we want to do. So there are things that they may want and we may have to say, not know, because this is what we are working towards and that kind of thing.
And so it is important to write down the goals, put strategies in place as to how you think you can achieve it, but most importantly, trust God to help you to achieve them. I think that is one of the things that I've kept our trust in the Lord. We place these things before the Lord. We say, this is what we want to achieve, and we just leave them in his hands and trust him to work it out.
And there are times when there are some things that we set out to do 24 years ago that we have accomplished, and there are some things that have evolved into other things.
Yeah.
Technology has changed.
Yeah.
So when we talk about touching the world and reaching the nations, there is still the physical aspect of it that we aspire to do and want to do and are working on doing. And we did some of that in the first couple years where our church setting, you know, missions, trips, and that type of thing. Then there was Covid, and we started to realize that there are other ways now to reach the world, to touch people. And so some of these things have been accomplished through those means. And then there is that part of us that wants to actually touch some places physically while we're still here.
Houston.
Yeah. After retouching, know that you are there. Yes. It's been too long. Our love for children, especially Dionne's love for children, has evolved into her job in education in the early childhood system. Before we got together, there was no organization like the one that she worked in. It was created afterwards, and so it opened an opportunity for her to be in a position and a place where she can actually be a part of policy making in early child education, which is not something that we ever dreamed know possible.
Right.
When we thought about working with children, it was just like Sunday school and things like that. Now we're actually in a place where she's influencing policy, influencing change. And although it may not be forever, from the beginning of that thing to know, she has made a tremendous mark on something that will affect the nation forever and also affect other nations, because other countries look to Jamaica for the guidance on these things. We ran a children's department in our church for 15 years, that's not something that we had planned for, but somehow they asked us and we did it. You say you want to do something, and then opportunities and avenues open. I have to be flexible as to who they are going to be fulfilled. You know, it's just like getting married and getting into relationships. It's okay to have a template, but it is also okay to veer from that template a little bit, because sometimes the template is just the skeleton of what is to be what.
You haven't seen it all yet, so you have to be open to how it all pans out.
Well, people. Carol, remember when Donald and I started dating and he took me up here and told me, we are going to farm?
Who's cracking up? Because I see you as a farm, and I'm like, nope, not happening.
And, you know, just recently we were able to establish two greenhouses. Still working on it. But the fact is, 24 years ago, when he took me up here and this space was so bushy. So we can farm, we're going to farm. And I keep laughing at the baboon, but it is coming to manifestation. But, you know, there is something that I found. He sent it to me the other day and just reading it, it was our purpose and mission statement. And this was at the back of our wedding program.
And, you know, when I saw it, I said, but, God, you know, you're good, because we wrote this 20, well, probably 24, 25 years ago. And now we can see the manifestation of that's what we wrote. So it says, to complement and complete each other, giving to each other 100% of ourselves, thus making us a force to reckon with by casting each other's weaknesses and making them strengths. Through our union. Through this union, we will raise up righteous seeds, and all our children are saved. Praise God. They have water filled baptize everything serving the Lord and fulfill the purpose and the call of God our lives. Raise a standard of holiness by being one ourselves, maximizing our potential through the work of the kingdom, by provoking each other to love and to good work.
And we had n and d incorporation. Luke 418 to 19. Healing the hurting, delivering the oppressed, raising a holy standard, ministering newness and deliverance to the hurting and the lust of our generation. And our motto was, God our source. And that was it. And I'm just an. I was like, my God, we have seen your hands. I remember Pastor Menci Oban, sailor to our wedding that we had brought so many persons here, and our wedding would be like a testimony, and influence to advance.
And just seeing it, the manifestation of it. You were at our weddings. You were. You were part of our bridal party. And, you know, just seeing how the Lord, you know, there are things that, yes, we wanted to have accomplished already, but just seeing the Lord at work, we know that he's going to come true for us with the other goals and things that we want to achieve.
Wow. I mean, you're reading that a while ago. I have goosebumps all over. Yeah. That is awesome. Okay. We live in a fallen world, and we live in a world where now, more than ever, a lot of things are sexualized. Back in the day, things were swept under the carpet.
It's not something that people would openly talk about or, you know, things like that. But how important is sex? And I'm going to say in a marriage, I'm not going to say in a relationship. I'm saying, how important is sex in a marriage? Let's go with that. How important is sex in a marriage?
It is like blood in a body. The body cannot do without the blood. If there's no blood, then there's no life. Before I get frivolous, let me get deep. The whole purpose of two people coming together is for purposes to be intertwined to the extent that they did. The ultimate is to reproduce that which has been intertwined out of each other so that that which came together can reproduce itself. And that can only happen through sexual relationship, ideally in marriage. And why ideally in marriage? It is because marriage is what God sanctioned as the vehicle through which a perfect sexual relationship can and should take place.
Right. It is of vital importance because even though the body is designed for it and can desire it long before there is ever any thought of a marriage. Best. Exactly. Oppression is in the context of marriage simply because that is where the security another human being requires. Not just the encounter, but it requires a security after the encounter. We live in the countryside, and we have some dogs here, and two of them are female. Praise the Lord.
And, you know, there's just a time when we see dogs turn up in the yard. That is when I know where the holes in the fence are, because up to then, I thought the place was secure. Then I see different dogs turn up in the yard, and I see my dogs doing things that I don't allow the children to do. And I'm saying, all right, okay. But then, you know, there's something interesting that takes place a few weeks later. I see the dogs digging up the place, digging, digging, digging, digging. And then in another few weeks, I wake up one morning and I hear some sounds, and I realized puppies are born. And that is when we discover that the purpose behind the digging was to create a safe space for the puppies when they are born.
And so the bottom line is that we liken careless, sexual beaver to dogs in many cases. But these dogs aren't very purposeful about what they do, because birds go and make a nest. Dogs want big, awkward. You know, the beavers cut down trees and do all kind of different things to prepare for their young ones. It's the same thing with human beings, a male and a female coming together and creating a safe space where you can nurture a relationship and then nurture the outgrowth of the relationship with the highest and best expression of it is through this. This encounter with each other and. And with the possibility that it can reproduce. Right.
If it is not reproducing, there is also the aspect of the unionizing that takes place with each other. There is something that two people who are committed to each other can do, that nobody else can do with anybody else. Anybody can have a feeling and find a way to have those emotions released. But not everybody can have the same feeling of security and safety and feeling of, wow, you know, even if this thing that just happened produces a baby, it will be just another opportunity for us to grow as a family, to grow as a couple, and to nurture this responsibility and see how this beautiful thing turns out in another 18, 2025 years. So it's very, very, very important. Now, the other thing, too, is when two people get married, you unlock something between each other that, no, having committed yourself, you are now looking to each other to sustain that which was unlocked between both of you. Now, if it was the first time that both of you had unlocked that emotion, being that you were two people who had never had that encounter before, once you have committed to each other, you have said to each other that, I'm not going to be thinking of going anywhere else to get what I'm looking for from you. And so now you're gonna have to find a way to make it work.
And this is why, you know, the Bible talks about the sex act in the old language as knowing each other, that you have found a way to pleasure each other and to make each other happy. You don't have to take out the headphones, Carol. I know it's kind of hard stuff for you to listen to, but.
No, my dog is barking, so I'm listening for my garage door to see if Chris is home.
Just messing with you, but um, the whole thing of knowing each other is, how can I help you? How can I please you? You know, there was a time when some persons would have been in a situation or a space where the act of sex was a casual thing. It could have been with a significant other that didn't last very long, and then it ended. Or you just didn't have a full commitment with somebody. But you know how to get that done. Some people call friends with benefits all kind of different things, but every time you get with that person, you know that it is not gonna be. It is. It is the need to get some kind of a fulfillment, and it needs to be done almost perfectly, because we don't know when we're gonna do this again. Right.
And there is also the gentleman trying to do what. You know, in Jamaica, we talk about drinking whatever we need to drink and all of these different things. Because you have to be. You have to be up for the task, right? Because if you feel all them girls going to laugh at you and say you're no good, et cetera, et cetera. But when you get married now, guess what? You can't be good 100% of the time. And that is a part of the beauty of it, that what didn't happen tonight can happen another night, you know?
Right.
And. Right. Or twice a day.
Yeah.
And so you realize that this becomes more than just a one time thing. It is a need now that you have to be fulfilling in each other. And this is something that a lot of couples don't understand, especially women to men.
And a thing that a lot of people don't understand also is that the intimacy that leads to the sexual aspect of it, if it comes to attention, when they're no longer able, for whatever reasons, to have that physical, sexual act happen, that the intimacy will still be there, that they've developed over the time.
And again after 24 years. There are changes that take place in each body that tests that intimacy and test that. What you're all about is just the act of sex. As important as it is, when you start getting into the latter fours and the early fives, you know, the bodies start to go through various changes.
Right?
Women's bodies go through changes. There is dryness and all these different things taking place, you know? And the gentlemen sometimes go through a temporary season when we get up and then we fall down, or we fall down and get up.
You.
You know, some men don't want to talk about it, but the truth is that it happens to just about everybody at some point. The scariest thing ever. But there is a season when you kind of wonder, you know, that is when men who don't want to go to the doctor run to the doctor because they want to know what's going on here, right? And sometimes it's not a lot. Sometimes it's nothing. And sometimes it's a big signal that there's something going on in your body that needs to be addressed right away. It can be various things, but if it is a cool relationship, then everybody just works it through together and knows that, okay? That's another part of our history. We got through it, and now we are back in the sad legging kind of thing.
And shop, open.
Shop is restocked and open. Self serve.
Oh, my goodness. Yes. Nolan. All right, so this is the part of the podcast where I ask you to give me a word of advice, each of you, that you would give to young people out there who see marriages as something that's not for them or see so many broken marriages. What advice would you give to these young people today?
I say first, get to know yourself. Deal with you. Deal with the issues that you have had in your life, things in your past. You may have had family issues, you may have had other relationship issues. It's you first. Because hurting people hurt others. If you don't love yourself, learn to love yourself. You can't love others unless you love yourself.
And we all go through our time of low self esteem and different things, but you have to deal with these things before you get into our marriage and find out about marriages. There are good christian literature out there that can help to prepare yourself for marriage and be accountable. So find somebody that you can talk to that you can get advice from, that you can see counseling from. Just prepare yourself. You may have had some preconceived ideas in your head. The type of guy that you want, the tall, dark, and handsome young man, and maybe that is not the person that turn up. And you have to get rid of those mindsets, those things that you had in your head and trust God in the process. Trust God leading and direction and communicate with the person who you're planning to get married to.
Make sure you talk about just about anything from the offset. Talk about the things that you don't like, the things that you like. Deal with issues. Just talk, talk. Be honest with each other from the offset. Because most of the time, the thing that you hide or the thing that you didn't discuss, they will come up to haunt you. And a lot of times, those are the things that destroy marriages because you're coming with a lot of hidden things that you didn't deal with. It create problems.
So I would say be honest with each other. Communicate, communicate, communicate.
All right.
I always use this term with young people. There are some things that you need to do before you start licking each other's ice cream. There are some things you need to know first, because once you start licking each other's ice cream is become solid friends before you become intimate with anybody. You know, sometimes it just seems like all old fashioned stuff, but we have proven that it is very important for you to get to know the person first before you start to get too tied up emotionally and intimately with that person as the answer. Ask the tough questions. And also in building friendships, especially before you get to the place of asking for hand in marriage and all these things. Just get to know people. Watch people in their natural environment, listen to what they are saying, watch how they operate.
And by just doing that, you can make decisions that can inform you that, you know what, we're going to be friends for life, but I don't think we can be married partners. That is one of the things that we were discussing that today, that, you know, we have seen how some persons that we have interacted with in the past, some of us are still great friends today. And so I've moved on to have married and had. Have their children and everything, and we can still look at each other. We can look and say, well, yeah, you know, we're still good friends, and that is where we left it, you know, and they were good for somebody else, but apparently it wasn't for us.
Right.
So that is something that we have to settle because, you know, God brings people into your life, but you can only have one wife or one husband, so. Right. You're happy and comfortable with the choice that you make.
Right? Oh, man, there's so much to unpack. And, boy, I wish we had more time because we still didn't touch on a lot of other things. But overall, I hear communication, communication, communication. I hear friendship. Make sure you have a friendship first before you start getting into the whole intimacy part of it. I heard about having goals, creating vision boards, writing your goals down, and put strategies in place, make being intentional for making time for each other. There's so much more that you guys have said, and like I said, listeners, they both do counseling. I will put the information in the description in case you want to reach out to them.
If you're in Jamaica, even if you're not in Jamaica, as they said, technology has made it where we can now zoom and talk. Or if you want to talk to them further or if you want to partner with them in their ministry in Jamaica, feel free to reach out to them, and I know that they will respond to you again. Thank you, Dion and Nolan. Thank you guys for your friendship. Thank you for pouring into me. And listeners, this is everyday I grow. See you next time. Every day, every day.
Bye.
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Everyday I grow