In this exclusive Valentine's Day episode of the "No Grey Areas" podcast, listeners are treated to the timeless love story of Patrick and Sharmin McCalla, who have known each other since the age of 12. Their son-in-law and host, Brandon Lopez, guides the conversation through the layers of their enduring relationship.

The episode touches on intentional acts of love, debunking the romanticized notions of "fuzzy feelings" and "sparks." Pat and Sharmin delve into the concept of love languages, secrets to their lasting marriage, and highlighting that love is not just a feeling but an action.

As the episode concludes, the McCallas share valuable insights on incorporating the spirit of Valentine's Day throughout the year. Don’t miss this episode, on how through humor and wisdom, Pat and Sharmin McCalla offer a timeless perspective on love with a comedic twist.

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You asked and we answered. Today we are bringing back my amazing wife, Shaman McCullough, for a part two exclusive Valentine's Day episode. Her and I are being interviewed by our son in law, Brandon Lopez. So you can guess there's a lot of surprises. Tune in to hear us dive into the five love languages. Marriage advice and tangible ways to incorporate Valentine's Day all year round.

Brandon Lopez

well, what's happening, everybody? I am brand and bringing you a special episode of No Great Areas because it is Valentine's Day. That is right.

Brandon Lopez

The day of romance being a more. And today we're gonna be talking about love, romance and marriage with our special guest, Patrick McCollough. And Charming McCollough. His better

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

half wife.

Brandon Lopez

So snuggle up close to your special somebody, because we can dive right in. Here we

Brandon Lopez

go.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

How

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Good. Good.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Well, I was with that. Here we go. Part of that. Maybe we should be coming out of the blue corner. In the red corner. Yeah. Yeah. So

Brandon Lopez

for we're not going to talk about, like, you

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

fighting? Yeah. Yeah.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Okay. All right. Fighting can be part of romance, but we can talk about that later. It can be? Yeah. Yeah, actually.

Brandon Lopez

Yeah. So today is a special day. You know, the theme of what we're talking about is Valentine's Day or just in other words, it's romance.

Brandon Lopez

But we want to dive in a little bit more into, of course, love and marriage. And so let's go right into it. Yeah.

Brandon Lopez

what's described to the audience. Pretty much like your history. Just really quick, this quick little timeline of your history together, because you've been married for

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

well,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

we talked about this before, but we can go really quickly.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

We were on the podcast before, as you know, because

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

you watch the podcast, don't you? Yes, go ahead. Good, good. But we have one of those crazy stories. We met in sixth grade. We started dating our sophomore year in high school. We dated through high school and you're out of high school. I asked her to marry me. Totally surprise her.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Surprise myself. She said yes. 32 years later, three kids and a seventh grandkid on the way

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

April from your lovely wife. And I think you had a part in that. So.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah. So it's it's been it's been quite an adventure. But we've known each other since we were 12.

Brandon Lopez

Awesome. So let's get right into it. Straight to the to the marriage part chart. Why did you say yes to this guy?

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I loved him. And I thought, why not?

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

You know the adventure

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

For years. For years? Yeah.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah, definitely.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

four years. I don't know that we would do everything together. It was more like the last year, a little bit that way. But in high school, we had, you know, we had our she we were in different sports.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Although I would come and cross-train with the track team so that I could. I was racing bikes at the time, so I needed to cross trains. I'd go to the track and

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

she was in track. She happened to be in track, so. But yeah, I don't think we did everything together,

Brandon Lopez

romance, right?

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Stalking is a form of romance.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah.

Brandon Lopez

So same question to you, Pat,

Brandon Lopez

because of course, you're the one pursuing her. So we'll see how romantic your answer is.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Well, I have a good idea.

Brandon Lopez

So you pursued Shar. You met her when you're 12, you pursued her, you dated her, and then, of course, you wanted to marry her.

Brandon Lopez

So as was described, kind of going through your head

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

There would be a lot of things, but certainly it was the way she treated people.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I don't know. There was, like, a connection. I know people say that sometimes and it can get kind of weird, but there was like we started out as friends, so we had one of those because we were young.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Neither one of us had driver's license. So it started off with us just talking on the phone. So it really did. Like something would be like what we were just friends. We really were. We were just friends. And and and then I think over that time, I you know, you just start going like and there's a connection here and there's the person I would spend the rest of my life with.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Wow. My answer was pretty superficial. Well, then, so is it one zero? I mean, not that this is a competition. No.

Brandon Lopez

Well, you know, it's kind of expected just because typically

Brandon Lopez

the man is the one that's pursuing. And so usually

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I'm okay

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yes.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Well, number one, it was 2:00 in the morning. I wasn't expecting it. He was. We just went out for. I was supposed to drive to go home because I was at his apartment with friends and we had gone out ice skating and spent time outside at night while it was snowing.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

And it was really beautiful. And I was like, I really need to get home. It's like 2:00 in the morning. He goes, Well, just go for a little drive first. And I'm like, Okay, but I really need to get home. So it's got to be quick short. So we went and he pulled into a gas station and said he was looking for something.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

This is another level of romance, but came out here and then eventually we ended up in the Albertson's grocery store parking lot. And like I said, another level of romance, knowing and whatever he was doing, like donuts in the parking lot, like spinning the car in the parking lot, it was as manual and it's not way to set up a proposal like spinning a car in circles.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

And he just like, whipped around a couple of times and then he pulled this artificial rose that he had purchased at the gas station that, let me tell the audience there were no real roses available at two in the morning at a gas station. That's why he had to go to the artificial, pulled it out of

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

coat, and he looked over at me and he goes, They say, If you buy a woman a rose, they'll love you forever.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Will you marry me? And I laughed. I thought he was kidding. I didn't think she did. I didn't think he was serious. And then he was serious. And he said, yes, I don't think you.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I told you that I needed to talk to your parents because, yeah, the crazy thing about us getting engaged is we had never talked about marriage, so we'd been dating for four years, but we were always trying to be very careful with each other.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

We didn't want the other person choose where they're going to go to school, so we never talked about it. I didn't even think it was possible. You know, we were too young all the things that people would tell you. And actually earlier that night I was talking to a mentor of mine and I'm just going I don't know where Sean, his relationship is going to go.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

We're 19, you're too young. You what? We are 18 at that. When you're 18. At that time, you were too young. You're too young, you're too young. And and he gave me all the reasons why that was kind of silly. So I just got the courage up that night. That's why there wasn't a lot of planning into this super, super romantic proposal.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

And I asked her that night, and that's why she was shocked. I mean, that's why she laughed at me because she had no idea it was called kidding. Now he goes, No, I'm really serious, but yeah. okay. Yeah. So then I told her because I always vowed I would, you know, ask the parents for permission. So then I'm like, You can't say anything.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I got to go talk to your parents tomorrow because I did this kind of backwards and that was one of the scariest moments of my life. But

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

because, again, I just everybody assumed we were too young. But she said yes. Her parents said yes the next day after a lot of questions. And here we are.

Brandon Lopez

that's a great story.

Brandon Lopez

So what was your first date like

Brandon Lopez

When you were started?

Brandon Lopez

You know, started dating. And I want to know how that compares to your most recent date.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

well, other first date, I this is our first date again. So we our first six, seven, eight months of dating, if you want to call it dating, I put it I have the little air quotes here because we've neither one of us had driver's license, so we were just calling each other.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

You got your driver's license first. So remember, this is. It's not our first date is I take the school bus home with her because she lived 20 miles out of town. And my brother and sister. Yeah. And her brother and sister there. And then we get off the bus and we walk to her house and she makes dinner for us because mom was still working.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Mom and dad was still working there. Her younger brother was bugging the heck out of me. He make dinner for us and then since she had a driver's license, she drove. I didn't drive it couldn't drive yet. And we went to a movie that I That was the first time I got home. Yeah. Yeah. After your mom got home.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

So, yeah, our first date was we took a school bus home together, and then she drove me to college, and then I dropped him off. Yeah, And then drove home. Yeah. Yeah.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

think you answered the second, but I would say a huge difference between those dates and dates now is you're just, you're like, nervous.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

You're there. I don't know. How would you describe it? You're there's but are you I mean you talk about like is there do you have butterflies? Well, there's butter there. It was different. The butterflies are. Is he like me? Am I dressed okay? You know, does my breath sting? Like, you know, like things that you're like, no.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

And now you're just like, that's my resting, you know, like, she's from, you know, you're just pretty. Yeah. You're like this. I'm wearing it anyway,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

you know, the way it usually goes for us is you come out, you say, Should I wear this or that? And then I'll pick one. And then you've already made a decision in your mind.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

So yeah. So that's how it usually goes. Yeah. But you know what though. Sure. I think you bring up a great point. That part of the big difference between a date then and now

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

is the comfort level. You know, we just, we know each other well. So like you're, you're, you're not joking like now it's, it's if you had bad breath in, you know, like you're going to tell the other person now you're like you need to get a piece of gum.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Right. You know, or like, serious. Are you going to wear that? Yes, I am going to wear that. Okay. Okay. That's how it goes now. Yeah. And that just shows. And I think that's that's a good thing. So it should be you know, if you've been together for 32 years of marriage, you should be comfortable with each other.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

And we have plenty of like date nights in or, you know, go out to dinner or something. But our last like our last probably real date was if you want to compare the two was we went to Sedona for a couple of days. So yeah, we didn't do that the sophomore year. No, no. And not only that, I mean, you know, instead of going to a movie or going to McDonald's, we went to McDonald's all the time, you know, back then and

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

now it's like, you know, go have a nice dinner and,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

get out of town.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

And there's there's also a little bit of a cash difference there, too. So, yeah. So not that we don't mind just something simple either. So

Brandon Lopez

perfect. So one thing is that you guys have mentioned, and I feel like this is a common theme to recent days, of course, throughout your marriage and your relationship.

Brandon Lopez

It's something that you said it was. You were really good friends in your dating relationship even before you get dating, but in your dating relationship, you're really good friends. And that was one of the greatest motivations and also one of the greatest foundations in why you guys got married. And it sounds like throughout the years, of course, and knowing you guys to really good friends and why I feel like kind of one of the reasons why most people feel more comfortable with one another, of course, is they're with each other all the time.

Brandon Lopez

And of course, the more honest you are with each other because of your friendship. So like, Hey, this is my breadstick,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah, right.

Brandon Lopez

And so for Valentine's Day is the it's the day of romance. And you get you know, you get some people that are like, you know, it's dumb. You should not celebrate just one day. You should be romantic year round and

Brandon Lopez

not going to listen to those, you know, smokes because

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

days specifically to

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

celebrate

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

well, you've made it.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I mean, you definitely make it special for the kids. Like we had kids for a while. And so you like you did a big thing for them,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

right? I think it I think I think that if the focus changed a little a little bit when we had kids.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I think because especially when the kids are little and they're not off doing their own things like you're if you want to plan a date night or if you're having, you know, with Horizon, it's like, well, but we have kids and you don't always have a babysitter.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

You can't always just, you know, go out. So you figure out how to incorporate them in making them feel special as well, or whether that's we did, you know, we'd gross them out and kiss in front of them and, you know, all the answers that there's. Back to mom, Dad, stop, You know, making them feel loved and special on this special day as well.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

It's not I don't think maybe just for couples, but

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

He's actually more romantic than I am.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Well, you can tell from the way he proposed to her, I mean. Yes. yes. Now, you're definitely more intentional about that. I like your question. I like his question. Or don't you? Sure. Because I think we've talked about this many times, especially early in our marriage.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

We would always say to people, and friendship's one of the most important things, So our most important things and I still believe that. I really do believe that. I think that's what can really carry like a common interest. You just like to hang around with each other. I mean, still to this day, if I'm traveling or I'm doing something and I do something, it's really cool and she's not with me.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I'm like, I wish I was here. I wish she could be part of this. But time has also taught me that some of those, like romance, you know, are the three letter word that goes with that right? The word that goes with that sex. Yes. Yes. But that's such a that timewise, you know, when you talk to the about the totality of hours in a year and then how much of that is going to be it's a small percentage, but I've counseled enough couples.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

We've walked through some journeys with some some couples, some tough journeys. You find out that that plays into the friendship part, too, like we as Westerners like to compartmentalize things so much. So we got your friendship, part of your marriage and your sex part of your marriage and your your, you know, whatever else. Those are the only two parts of marriage I can think of right now.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Typical guy. But

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Remember when we should talk about that we'd have these come we'd be like, well, maybe they just I guess they just do things differently. But sure enough, eventually you'd find out they were not in a good place. So that the romance, the sex, that's it. That has a huge part with the friendship part as well.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah. Yeah. Yes.

Brandon Lopez

like this will even go into another topic of discussion is that I think that,

Brandon Lopez

would I be wrong to assume that especially in our culture is that we kind of glorify romance

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

the fuzzy feeling, the.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

This. Yeah. Yeah, the music. That's true.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Right, Right.

Brandon Lopez

pretty much anything that's thrown in our face.

Brandon Lopez

this time of the year, of course, you go to Walmart, you see everything that's in, you know, hearts and chocolates and everything like that.

Brandon Lopez

when we bring up intimacy, when we bring up sex in in a relationship, do you think that's

Brandon Lopez

because I find a lot of people when they when they, quote unquote, fall out of love or when a relationship fails, typically my observation is, is that they don't usually they usually all have something in common.

Brandon Lopez

They usually start their relationship and they're out of intimacy and sex and not out of friendship.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Brandon Lopez

And usually when I make this observation, when I see a relationship that starts from a foundation of just just like friendship, like good actual friendship in that can involve usually I see this a trend in which the not that, you know, people don't have their struggles and their, you know, low points or anything like that.

Brandon Lopez

But usually there's a trend and there's a high probability based off my observation, that there's higher levels of success and happiness associated with the relationships in their marriage. And then I find that people that kind of go into the more of the status quo of how we approach relationships, they usually

Brandon Lopez

you know, we definitely nowadays have more of a hookup culture in the sense of,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

you know, you,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

relationship.

Brandon Lopez

And so we elevate to different things

Brandon Lopez

when we see your journey, of course, there's the friendship as a base. When we see a lot of other people, their base is usually more sexual, that's more sexual partners. Then they become friends through

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Time after time.

Brandon Lopez

Do you think there is a do you think there's a correlation with that as far as the percentage of people falling out of love filled relationships, failed marriages?

Brandon Lopez

You know, we of course,

Brandon Lopez

statistically we are at, what, 75% of marriages ending in divorce, I think, or something like

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah, I did not write that. But yeah, it sounds about right. I think it's more like 50 or 60.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

But

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Really?

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Well, I just said you're pretty. Pretty sure that is 75%. By the way, if you going to use my math skills. Are

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

You point people to that often. Yes. And in this. Yes.

Brandon Lopez

But do you find that there's a correlation with that. Do you think that when we talk about romance oftentimes we got to be a little bit more tentative and a little bit more careful just because usually the the lens that we look through as far as relationships go is more sexual than it is friendship

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

what we've talked about right there, that kind of goes back to what I said before, where early on we would often say it's all it's friendship is so important,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

which it is. This is where I think it's dangerous. Dangerous to compartmentalize. Then we met a lot of couples that just the romance had left there.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

And we and we go we got to quit downplaying that part of it, too. They're they're both important. They play into each other. But I think what you're saying, where did you go? And if you start with one and you think that's going to sustain it, like if if it starts as the romance, the sexualize that and then you think that's going to sustain, it probably is not going to.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I was I'm not going to say it's not because you could grow into being good friends and but that I see there could be a danger that either either one of us, either one, I would see that there are pitfalls if you don't grow.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I mean, the fluttery feelings you don't you're not married for 32 years and you go like, Yeah, we finished.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Like every morning we wake up, we look at each other and go, Wow, you get your heart's just beating like Christmas. Yeah, Yeah, It's. You keep bringing that up. Yeah, exactly.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah, that would be silly to say that. And if you thought if someone thought that was going to sustain it. And then when you don't feel that if all of a sudden, you know, you're you're getting, you're so.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

But I would also say, though, I would flip the script a little bit and say, yeah, but after 32 years of marriage, if you're not feeling that sometimes for your spouse, there's something wrong with that, too. You know, but so that's all tied together. I think it's again, the friendship part is,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

that's a big part. I write this.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

It is. And I think when you're new in a relationship, I mean, it's been a while since we were at new in a relationship. But when you're new in a relationship,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

there's definitely more intention. I feel like there's more you more maybe more often that you go on a date or that you do, you know, as far as romance is like, they really like this book, or I'm going to buy them a coffee and bring it to them, or I'm going to, you know what?

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Whatever, whatever it could be, whatever it could be. Because romance isn't necessarily just sex. Romance is just you're thinking about the other person, right? Like you're what do they like? What do they enjoy? Listen closely, Brandon. Thank you. You know, but I mean, that's the way to someone's heart, too, is not just

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

physical. There's the emotional part of it.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

There's, you know, just all of it.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

So you have to even though you might be more intentional at the beginning and because you just you can't wait wait to see them, you know, if you're not, you know, together all the time. And

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

but or even if you are and you're like, I can't wait till they come home for dinner and, you know, everything.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

And now it's like, I forgot about dinner. Okay, what are we going to do for dinner? But, he really likes that. Okay. Yeah. Okay, I'll make that. Or, you know, whatever it could be. I think it's just going to take intention, especially. I think the longer that you've been together and then then you put kids in the mix and family and drama and all of that stuff that just keeps adding on and adding more people into your relationship circle, then you can get pulled in many different ways.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

So

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I tend to take intention, whether it's like going on a date or planning a special evening or meal or spending a day together, or

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

just being together can be romantic. I love that word that you use because I think intentionality, I think that is something that when you talk about couples that fall out of love, whatever that term means

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

guarantee you a lot of times somewhere along the line, they started losing that intentionality

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

and that does look different than when you're first in a relationship and you've been together for a long time.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

But if you stop being intentional about trying to find that space, one thing that started for me years ago that was still one of my favorite things is I was working a job where we just didn't get a lot of time together. We had I think at that time we had one kid in high school still, so we were doing the high school sports stuff, but Mondays were my day off.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Remember, this now is is awesome. She started what she called mystery Monday. I would look forward to this. And a mystery Monday was where she would like set the whole day up. And so this is the intentionality. I mean, by that time we've been married for 25 years or something, but I would wake up in the morning and she'd be like, all right, go get in the car.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

And I had no idea what we're going to do. But she had some little adventure planned. And it wasn't every Monday. It was no, it lasted about a fall. Like, you know, I think it last fall. And then we did it five or six times. I mean, one of them was big. We drove clear to the Grand Canyon in high part of the Grand Canyon on a mystery Monday.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

It was just a day trip on a date. We got up before that that when it was the night before, she said, we're waking up at four in the morning.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Like, I don't know if I like this mystery Monday, but some of them. And then another one, we went to a coffee shop that she found that was opening and she just brought some games.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

We played games together. But I think that goes back to what you were describing. I love that word. You used intentionality that it's just always and, you know, I might add another word, priority, intentionality and priority, because again, it's you got to show your spouse that they're the priority in your life.

Brandon Lopez

good. You brought up a lot and you

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Okay, I know this is actually

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Good luck with that host.

Brandon Lopez

I think what's really cool is, is because

Brandon Lopez

you guys just displayed and brought up that there are key things within a relationship that makes it work. Well, not that intentionality and priority is

Brandon Lopez

like the only

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

very true.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

absolutely.

Brandon Lopez

But I think we can absolutely argue that they're

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah. Yeah. You know, they do.

Brandon Lopez

But being intentional and being intentional and making somebody a priority, those are all choices. You know, we're talking about no gray areas, talking about choices, you know, choosing to make somebody a priority and being and choosing to be intentional with them. How important that is in that romance, I think we could also argue isn't just some emotional fleeting thing.

Brandon Lopez

It's actually also a choice.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah, right. That's true.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

you

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

you know?

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

that we see in that voice, yeah, it's just like,

Brandon Lopez

But the reason why they say that is just because they realize that that person was made a priority

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah, there's a lot of intentionality

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah. So this

Brandon Lopez

perfectly brings into something I want to talk about, which is

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Okay, let's jump back in to this episode.

Brandon Lopez

So this

Brandon Lopez

perfectly brings into something I want to talk about, which is

Brandon Lopez

the five love languages

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Well,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Well, I haven't written down right here. Yeah, you should do my

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Words of affirmation, acts of service, receiving gifts, quality time and physical touch to the five love languages.

Brandon Lopez

and if you're in Arizona, AC

Brandon Lopez

yes, so there's five love languages and it's inscribed with the five love languages that

Brandon Lopez

everybody has their way of receiving

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

love.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

love.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

it might be a foreign language to us. Yeah, right.

Brandon Lopez

words of affirmation might be mine, but for my wife, if I give her words of affirmation, she might just be like, I don't need you to talk me up or say I'm cute or this or that.

Brandon Lopez

Just give me gifts.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

was

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

know, I think you just described our daughter very well.

Brandon Lopez

But with languages there's different dialects. There's different, you know, there's a lot of different things. But when you want to adequately speak love to somebody and speak their love language, you need to learn how to be fluent in that. Right.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah. So

Brandon Lopez

the audience what is something that you guys like If you guys know what your love languages

Brandon Lopez

and I guess you guys can talk about too a little bit like how well you guys speak each other's loving which is or like in cases when you have learned that speaking directly to each other in that

Brandon Lopez

language was a lot better than speaking to them in a different

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah. Yeah.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Well, first of all, we'll put this in the description of the podcast. There's a place where someone can go take a test. It's a little quiz, really easy quiz, and we'll tell them what

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

their love language is. And I

Brandon Lopez

the link of No various book by

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Joe Gabriel. Nice, Nice. This is masterful how you're weaving this together.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

The power and complexity of choice. And yeah, I love it. It's but it's I highly, highly, highly recommend it. We would highly recommend because that was a book we read early in our marriage, the five love languages back then. So you and the younger generation won't know about this, but you could order, but you'd get it in like a magazine and you get five books for a penny and then you'd pay for the six book or something else.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

And we were poor, newly married. So and we both love to read. So that's how we got our book collection growing. But one of the books that came was the Five Love Languages. And we read it. It I mean, I don't think it's short of saying in some ways it revolutionized our marriage, but it just made us recognize, especially me, because I break on shore here.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

My love language is words of affirmation. She's incredibly good at giving me words of affirmation, her love languages, acts of service. I'm still trying to get better at that. Okay. Well, I'm going to differ with that because

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I have to be very intentional because words of affirmation are very low for me. So that's like for my love language, acts of service is my top one.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

So I have to go. I have to be really intentional because it doesn't mean as much like it doesn't mean nothing, but it doesn't mean as much to me. So I definitely have to be more intentional. And I struggle. I struggle, I have to admit, like I struggle with going, yeah, okay, he doesn't care that I'm I've clean the kitchen today so that when he comes into the kitchen, it's clean like that.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Doesn't you know, that doesn't, that doesn't matter to him. What matters is, hey, you know, how is your podcast today? How did it go? I bet you did a great job or, you know, there's

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

just different things like that. You think I did what exactly? Exactly, exactly, Exactly. Like, No, But that's your point, though, isn't it, Brandon? Because both of us said the same thing is

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

both of us said, I'm still trying to get better at acts of service because that's probably one of the lowest on mine.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

So it's like a foreign language that's in to your point, it's like a foreign language for me and for Shar to give words of affirmation. It's like a foreign language for her. But I do think that since we read that early in our marriage, we have been trying to be intentional about it. And I would differ on what you said.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

She's been really good at that. Like I was a speaker for years and I could come off the stage and if there was a line of people, you know, 50 long that were like one amazing message, great message, right? I loved it because I'm a words of affirmation guy. But there's only one person I really wanted to hear that from.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

And she was always really good about, you know, and not just doing the blanket like, good job today. She'd usually find something like, I really liked when you said something. So recognizing that that's a foreign language to her, that even meant more to me to know that she was she was going out of way. Fact, I didn't always she got so natural and still I didn't go, she's giving me words of affirmation.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

That's my love language just felt like she's naturally.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

But it is. That's your point. Is we both have to work at it. Active services. You know her dad is that's his gift of he is incredible in active service. You know, her dad that's his love language probably because that's what he's so good at doing. And then she married a guy that that's from the bottom of my list.

Brandon Lopez

Well, you noticed too, I imagine when you guys were dating and, you know, everything's like, feels all fuzzy butterflies, but you're trying to be romantic and woo her. Did you inherently kind of learn

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

not

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Well, I might rewind. Let me try that again. I mean, let's rewind that. Let me try that again.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

We'll edit that part out. Here's my answer to you now. Like

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Absolutely. Absolutely. I you know, I was about a month into our marriage and I knew no, that's not at all the case. That's why that book was so good is I think I was really good at affirming her, like giving a words because that's my love language.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I assumed everybody needs that or wants that. So I was probably better at that,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

telling her, you know, like, hey, great job. You got another eight on that test, I guess what I got. But

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

now I think that book really helped me realize that, that people have different love languages. So I didn't I didn't I don't think I inherently came on that.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

How about, you know,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

what's interesting is after finding that out, you know, you do something like that and you figure that out, then you start thinking back through, you know, the history of like your relationship. And you go, I okay, yeah, I see it. I can see it where what I said made a difference or, or that's she's really good at that with me and with others.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

You know the words of affirmation. He's very good at that. And I'm like, like, you just go. It's just a little light bulb moment where you go, Okay, yeah. If you wanted to know what kind of what you're saying is, if you want to know what someone else's love languages probably watch what they do. Well, like if they're doing if they're serving and doing out this, probably that.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Now, if the listeners are paying attention, they probably be wondering why did Mystery Monday mean so much to you of words of affirmation and interesting acts of service were at the bottom because my second which is also her second is quality time.

Brandon Lopez

bilingual

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

So yeah well I'm bilingual in the love language. Yeah everybody is by the way. You have a primary and secondary and our secondary is quality time.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

So the mystery Mondays. Yeah, I mean the access service was huge. All the planning that she would have to do and put that together. But what connected with me on it is like it's just me and her hanging out quality time. So, so that was the second one, which is that that's what's nice is it's also her second one.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

So our, our secondary love language,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

we speak pretty well to each other because we're natural and

Brandon Lopez

And I think you brought up a great point too.

Brandon Lopez

If you want to know what the love language is of your significant other, look at what they do well,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

all right.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

somebody for sure.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

yeah,

Brandon Lopez

maybe I should do

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

maybe like, clean up my sound. And it really

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

you know, can, can we move on from this? Because I'm thinking of the list of things that she hey, these are things that I want done around the house.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Those lists are still going. So let's move on with some of the same.

Brandon Lopez

No,

Brandon Lopez

I think that's very critical for most relationships.

Brandon Lopez

And whenever we see something as far as you want to do a romantic gesture you found that is only been amplified when you've done something that spoke to her more and vice versa.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Right.

Brandon Lopez

instance, like the mystery Mondays,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

even if you

Brandon Lopez

weren't making that consistent thing, like if you wanted to be like earlier or romantic gesture,

Brandon Lopez

speaking to Pat would be like, Hey, I know he loves us.

Brandon Lopez

This will mean something really deeply to him.

Brandon Lopez

So very cool. And I think of of course, all that too has to come down to choosing like and this is going to lead into in. The next question is, I think that

Brandon Lopez

there's always something special and something there. And I think it's very hard for somebody to really pinpoint, say, like, I love so-and-so, like we love each other.

Brandon Lopez

And you ask them why. And I think there's just always something there. You just can't explain.

Brandon Lopez

How much of it is a choice, though, like to love somebody and also just the action, the act of loving somebody.

Brandon Lopez

How much do you think is you know, of course, we just based off of all we talked about, we talked about being intentional, we talked about prioritizing, We talked about treating each other well through like learning each other's love languages.

Brandon Lopez

Those are all choices. But is there room in loving somebody? Just be in love? I guess being in love with somebody that is a choice, not just a, I guess a feeling or

Brandon Lopez

just some mystery thing.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Absolutely. I think at the very beginning

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

of relationships, I think you see that act. You see the act of

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

love. It's definitely a choice because the person is choosing to say things, do things for the other person or with the other person. They're definitely

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

choosing to. Yet they may think, but I really I just really wanted to know.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

But you still have to make the choice to do that over time. Maybe other things kind of other. There could be other priorities, other things that maybe get in the way or that are more priority. Sometimes it is tyranny of the urgent, but I absolutely think that there's definitely choice because I could say I love my dog, but if I'm not caring for my dog, then

Brandon Lopez

which is really funny because

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

okay, we have to go there.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

You for the audience, I she's not a big animal lover.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

love animals. How many ask you to be in trouble? How many animals do you. I just don't want to own. And I love animals.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I do. I love that she grew up on a farm. You do? But I don't. I just don't need to own an animal.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I'm glad you pointed that out. Okay, So. So if I say that I love my children and then I don't care for them, right? You're like,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Do you love them? Like love is definitely, I would say a verb, an action. Yeah. Well, even from a biblical perspective, it is an action verb. Absolutely. It's like God loved us.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

So what did he do? You know, that should always, if. If I love Shar should be followed with. Okay, then what am I doing? So it is,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

absolutely an action. But I think that this is why I would again encourage the audience to take that test

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

because what you need to learn and this is the that is what does she need, though not what I think she needs or vice versa?

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Like, what do I need to feel valued and respected for her to feel cherished, which really are the two big love languages of men and women. Men want to feel respected and women want to be cherished. We know that because God told us that. But what does she need to feel cherished? And the love language test kind of tells you that for her, it's acts of service and quality time.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I can give her a lot of words of affirmation, which I do, because it's natural, but it's has a 10% impact compared to an act of service,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

which I so wish wasn't true, because that's so much work for me. It's almost it's just natural for me. I mean, every week I'm sending my kids like, I sent you one recently and you're like, It's part of I said, Brennan, when I never heard back from him.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

But no, I sent him one. And he's like, Is Pat okay?

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

If you assume, like, something really bad was happening, I'm like, Hey, I just want to tell you, have a great day. I'm proud of you and your diagnosis. Yeah, she died of. No, but that's just natural for me.

Brandon Lopez

that. I don't respond.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

well, you ever. None of our kids seem, though.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

We text all of them. It's like nothing. In fact, I get jealous because she hears back more. I'll be like, What? You. He responded to you. He didn't respond to me.

Brandon Lopez

I prefer nothing than just like a thumbs up.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

you know,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Okay. Good job. Even though words of affirmation or is your love language

Brandon Lopez

my. It used to. And that's another thing I want to bring up. I think some people kind of evolve and change

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

okay.

Brandon Lopez

be satisfied in other ways.

Brandon Lopez

And so for me, I definitely do like quality time. That's always been one of mine.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

did you take the test or do you figure out this on your own? Figured this out on, you know, just

Brandon Lopez

by reading the book. Like,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

that's, that's cool with me because I'll bet I'll bet words of affirmation and quality time ranked really close together.

Brandon Lopez

take tests on anything like my top two are usually always neck and neck.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah,

Brandon Lopez

I think for me to like and this is something that might be noteworthy for our audience, I think for me with words of affirmation, I think that also came from a place of, at least at the time of my life, where I was struggling a lot with like self-respect and insecurity.

Brandon Lopez

And so I was trying to leverage words of affirmation to counteract

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

those feelings.

Brandon Lopez

when I didn't feel the need out of that one way. I feel like when I became more emotionally mature, it wasn't something that I actually wanted, let alone needed.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

So let me see if I'm hearing you right. You're saying anybody has words of affirmation is emotionally insecure. doesn't know about.

Brandon Lopez

no, that's not what I'm saying at all. It's just at the time, I think

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah, I get it. And some people,

Brandon Lopez

they might be

Brandon Lopez

one of the things that they might struggle with is just being alone. And so they might think that I need quality time and they might just be growing through something and becoming more mature through something.

Brandon Lopez

So I think that

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

yeah,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

great sort of

Brandon Lopez

like a book, like the love languages a lot of times too, is are you reading it and are you going through it in a time of

Brandon Lopez

immaturity or are you going through it in a headspace

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

or I would say immaturity or deep pain, right. Like you saw that

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

with.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

She often will say when people be like, well, you know, there was one argument for getting married young, like don't get married too young because you're going to change. Well, we always say you may people may still have good arguments. And why not? You married young. I'm not arguing that right now. But you're going to change no matter what age you are.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

That is true. What? She saw me go through big changes in my forties, but it was because of the difficult times I was going through in that time. So I think you're right. If you took the love language quiz when you're going through a really difficult time or

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

what did you call me again? Immature. What was the worst year?

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Do you? Yeah, it can skew it can skew it some. You're right. They would say something about personality test. So to be aware of that, it's a great point. And how in the that could maybe change

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

so what you're saying is Ashley if you're listening Ashley, our daughter who's married to you, that that words of affirmation is still important to you, but you're saying quality time was almost moved up because as you've matured, you're going, I don't need words of affirmation like I used to.

Brandon Lopez

And she's a lot like you. Two words of affirmation is in

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

strong, Right? Right.

Brandon Lopez

so it might just be like quality time. It was like I'll take

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

it's number two, but I'll take that one

Brandon Lopez

We can leave that part out

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

You know, knowing that part in Bloom's back. Yes, Please leave that part of

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

next, next family talk.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Even

Brandon Lopez

in love, the action of love is a choice, and we have to be intentional and prioritize one another for it. And then we have this day of Valentine's Day, which can easily be, Are you just waiting

Brandon Lopez

spike revenue for most stores right. But it is a day to celebrate romance, a day to celebrate

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

for sure. So

Brandon Lopez

now I do think that a day to celebrate one another and just being just loving and romance is a good thing. I'm not harping

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah,

Brandon Lopez

but I do think that there's definitely room for the conversation of how can we incorporate Valentine's Day throughout the year? You know, that doesn't happen. There had to be every day, but throughout the year.

Brandon Lopez

So it's not just say, okay, there's only one day of the year that I'm going to be super intentional about, you know, flowers, chocolates, dinners, dinner reservations or special things, you know, the grand gestures.

Brandon Lopez

What would be your advice to anybody really young? Couples, older couples, anybody? How would you incorporate Valentine's Day throughout the year to honor one another and your in the within your relationship?

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I think that it goes back to what we had talked about before and just making a chop, making a conscious choice to say, okay, I'm not going to do this.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Just time of year. Like for those of the audience that are maybe words of affirmation. And so you maybe you're like, I can't come up with something. So I bought a card that perfectly explains how I feel. Okay, maybe do that more than once a year, or sending a text or, you know, doing writing a letter, or he would write me tons of letters, even in high school and after high school, even even though we lived in the same house, he would write me letters and

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

also other things because acts of service, you know, okay, you

Brandon Lopez

And I'm going to I'm going to talk up your husband, your hubby, right now,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

okay.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I think I am.

Brandon Lopez

I would make the assumption

Brandon Lopez

that you have a husband that is upholding his part of the deal and treating you and loving you the way that

Brandon Lopez

you want to be treated and loved and the way that he wants to treat you and love you.

Brandon Lopez

And if you guys want to zoom in on his eyes

Brandon Lopez

No, I think that's good.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah, I do. I was going to make

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Brandon Lopez

I would make the argument I would take this responsibility and I would call all the men within a relationship to take this responsibility to take up the mantle, to be the one that is,

Brandon Lopez

being the one to to take on this challenge within the related being in the relationship and having the responsibility over this.

Brandon Lopez

Like I think it's actually good that you are actually struggling a

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

little bit

Brandon Lopez

it all comes down to it, it's down to his responsibility to make sure that this relationship is is well and is good. And I think that that's very political. That's not just like a now you just squeeze like some schmuck kind of thing

Brandon Lopez

bad wife.

Brandon Lopez

That's not what I'm saying at all. But I think the reason truly, I think the reason why it's kind of difficult for you to answer that question is because I think that

Brandon Lopez

Pat is doing a good job,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

here, and

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

he does

Brandon Lopez

applauding and celebrating

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yes. Well, thanks, Brendon.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

You know what popped into my mind?

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I clear my throat.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

What popped into my mind was it's a word we've used numerous times. And I guess that's the theme of this episode. It's prioritizing and being intentional. That's how you make light you. Carrie. Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is a good idea. Like take it, take a time to to step outside of the business of everything and make your significant other your spouse know that you're a priority to me, but it's got to be more than once a year.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Now there is something special about you can't do that every day. And like it's not special if it's every single day. But I think there's something really, really valuable. And, you know, that's what we were still figuring out, working through and we try to do for each other is she has to know that she comes before our kids, she comes before our grandkids, she comes before my job, she comes before anything else.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Now, how we how I display that to her is going to change all the time. And then I'm not going to do it well at all. Sometimes they're not to go and say, I'm really sorry. You should have been a priority and. You weren't. But I think that's that word is such a key one. I mean, I guarantee you, you look at a couple who is married for a year or ten years or 50 years, and if they're always making each other priority or working to make each other a priority, you're going to find a fairly healthy relationship,

Brandon Lopez

And I think to tie this one last point, I think to make this a beautiful analogy here

Brandon Lopez

is that I think that is like absolutely depicted in the way that the Bible compares Jesus to the church, saying that he is the line in the lamb, in the church is his bride.

Brandon Lopez

So, for instance, when we look at the story of the garden with the Serpent and Adam and Eve, Adam displayed more of a lamb. The serpent

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

was more of a lion. Yeah. And that's not what

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

right? Yeah,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah. Life

Brandon Lopez

in the world, but a lamb with his

Brandon Lopez

wife and his kids, his family.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

now, the

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah. So, yeah, well put. So

Brandon Lopez

thank you so much for this conversation,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yeah. Thank you.

Brandon Lopez

very special one, a very fun one. And

Brandon Lopez

in the I guess, the bliss of romance Shaman asked you to lead us.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

yes, I had to write it down.

Brandon Lopez

goes to no gray areas has a tradition. At the end of each podcast, we play a game of two truths and a lie.

Brandon Lopez

Pat, you've done yours.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Yes,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

But

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Not with you. So you have to guess her likeness. Yeah. Okay. Can we can we set the record straight, though, that I actually stumped you? You did not get off, but. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just wanted to let the audience know that.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

Okay, go ahead. I know you are. Okay, Here it is.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I've ridden a horse through a barbed wire fence, so my childhood dream was to be a professional barrel racer. And my first limo ride was in Hawaii.

Brandon Lopez

So you're from Montana. So anything to do with horses makes sense. But I can understand why you put two of those in there to try to stop me.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

on those two.

Brandon Lopez

So I'm going to go on a whim and say, Because you've gone to Hawaii a bunch, I don't ever recall you ever talking about being in one of them.

Brandon Lopez

I'm going to say the limo is true.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

the limo is true.

Brandon Lopez

All right, here we go.

Brandon Lopez

I'm going to say

Brandon Lopez

the first one's true barb wire to happen.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

It did.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

it did. Sorry, guys. Yes, now it did. Okay, so see if I can. The reason your lie,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

is you wanted to be a professional figure skater. I did? Yes. Yeah, I did.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

The Barrel Racer, though that was a good one,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

then.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

All you love like I love animals. Not I don't want them to live in my house.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

that. No, no.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

The other way. You could have known that number one was true is most kids that grew up in Montana rode a horse through barbed wire fence. It's annoying. Now, that's not true at all. That's not that's not true.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

That's true. Now, this was a just a very wily who grew up on a farm, very wily horse. You rode your farm, your little bike thing through a hornet's nest. You've rode a horseshoe, barbed wire. You lived a

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

adventurous childhood. Yeah. Yeah.

Brandon Lopez

And I actually chose that one. And I'm saying this out of just love and nothing judgmental, but since I've known you, you've had some clumsy

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

moments.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

yeah. that mountain.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I saved your life that time. I had a live audience. I literally had to tackle her and keep her from going off a cliff. Yeah,

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

because it started with her just stumbling and then the stumbling turned in faster and faster and your fire started just laughing. Go. What are you doing, Mom? I go.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

I realized she's going to go off that cliff. I literally had a tackler.

Pat and Sharmin McCalla

good point.

Brandon Lopez

well, thank you so very

Unknown

Yeah.

Unknown

Thank you. Brandy. Yeah. Thanks to have a lot of fun. Yeah. Ballantine's day.

Brandon Lopez

Thank you. Happy Valentine's Day.

Host

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