After The Aisle Podcast

What's considered healthy space in your relationship? Is space more important than sex? How much hanging with the girls is too much and can giving one another space enhance your marriage? Alfred and Christy talk about all this and more while sprinkling in some facts. Wanna chat? Join their after-the-aisle podcast group on Facebook and get in the conversation!

In blended families, part two, Alfred and Christy bring in both their son Michael and Dre and Zandra's daughter Zharia. They sit down with them to discuss how they felt as the child and the products of a blended family. Sharing experiences, and feelings on how both the parent and child can do things differently. Click, like, and subscribe to @aftertheaislepodcast on Instagram and all social media platforms. Email: ask@aftertheaislepodcast.com

In this episode, Christy and Alfred talk about the pandemic and all that it took from us and the positive things we got out of it too! Did you spend more time with your kids? Realize you didn't really like your spouse, have fewer fights? They cover all these things and more..... home improvements, job loss, life loss, and let's not forget all the amazon deliveries! Hit them on IG with questions or comments @christyrecord @alreclife @aftertheaislepodcast

On this episode of After the Aisle, Alfred and Christy are joined by Andre and Zandra Bailey, parents of a blended family. The couples discuss the different dynamics of starting a family when one partner has no children and the other does. Differences in co-parenting styles when the stepchild is a son vs. a daughter are shared and the challenges faced from the step-parent and biological parent perspectives.    For questions or comments, you can email ask@aftertheaislepodcast.com Instagram handles @christyrecord @alreclife @aftertheaislepodcast.com

In this episode, Christy and Alfred are back from their BaeCation and ready for season 2 of After The Aisle Podcast!  Taking you along for the ride as they relive their kid-free, stress-free summer vacation where they celebrated 11 years of marriage and introduce some of this season's topics.    The book Christy mentions is linked below: Marriage Ain't for Punks For questions or comments, you can email ask@aftertheaislepodcast.com Christy @christyrecord Alferd @alreclife

As we bring season one to a close we wanted to Thank ALL our listeners and prep you for season 2!

Alfred and Christy take you with them as they relive the decisions about when and how to have kids and how those kids impact your marriage, if you had them early how to nurture the marriage and not allow the kids to slow the romance down. The talk about not striving for perfection but looking at the reality of it all.

Can husbands and wives juggle being married and business partners? When is it time to shut down business talk and pick up bedroom life? Alfred and Christy sit down with fellow married entrepreneurs, Anthony and Riceyta Starks to discuss the benefits and dangers of being married in business together, and being married with separate businesses.

We are back with Sex In Marriage part 2! The Smith's have joined us again to further explore sex in marriage and talk all about the naughty and not so naughty things that husbands and wives want... or don't! Put away the kids because it gets EXTRA SAUCY and no one holds back as we talk oral sex, lingerie, toys, role play, and foreplay.

In this episode, we talk all about what expectations you have in marriage. What roles did you expect your spouse to play, did you think because he was the man he needed to be the breadwinner, and did you think because she was your wife she should have a hot dinner on the table as soon as you got home from work? Listen as we explore this and more. 11 years of marriage will teach you some things and one of them is everything isn't always going to work out according to your perfect plan.

Does your mother-in-law pop up at your house? Do they tell you how to parent your children? Alfred and Christy discuss this and more as it relates to in-laws, your parents, and setting healthy boundaries.

Let's talk about self-care vs spouse care. Can they co-exist, so you allow your spouse room to breathe and have a life outside of their responsibilities to you and the kids? Come along with Alfred and Christy and they discuss this and walk through some of what their differences of opinions have been.

With the winter storm rolling through Texas, Christy and Alfred found themselves seeking shelter at the Omni Dallas Hotel. Power outages forced families out of their homes which led to this impromptu podcast episode with three other couples also seeking a warm place to sleep. Together they discuss random topics but focus on weathering the storm with your spouse.

In this episode, Alfred and Christy do an impromptu recording after Christy discovers Alfred ate Christy's brownie! They discuss how small things use to be HUGE in years past and how they learned over the years to discuss and move past them. They talk about "community property" and laugh at how each of them has their different preferences of how they like certain things done.

Alfred and Christy sit down to seriously discuss what it looks like to have healthy arguments in marriage. They discuss some of the techniques they have learned over the years, some that worked and some that didn't. Giving insight into what arguments in marriage can look like and what they shouldn't.

We spent time with Jermont and Mitchiko Jackosn talking all about balancing your marriage with successful careers. We talk about gender roles in the house, managing the kids, and being supportive of one another's career and education goals. In this candid conversation, we laugh about loving ourselves and does it really matter if one outearns the other.

Continuing on from part 1, Christy and Alfred discuss more about their friendships and how they change after marriage. You're married, you have kids and now have someone to "answer" to about where you are going and when you plan to come back. 

Discussing relationship differences and how men and women connect with each other on different levels. Do women share more, do men not share enough? Are all lady talks gossip or the tea? Do men only share surface-level or do they go deep about their marriage?

Alfred and Christy sit down with their friends and neighbors Royce and Chere Smith who have been married for over 20 years to discuss the changes in sex in marriage. The four of them talk about new sex, sex after kids, tired sex, and how much sex couples are having. The goal of this episode is to dispel the myths of what you think sex should look like in your bedroom.

In this episode of After The Aisle, Husband and Wife Alfred and Christy break down for you the purpose of the podcast, why they started a marriage podcast, who they are, and struggles they have faced in their own marriage.