Tony & Lymari Navarro

Are You Renovating or Demolishing With Your Words?

Every day, spouses use roughly 16,000 words and without realizing it, many of those words are quietly demolishing the very home they're trying to build. In the middle of conflict, couples find themselves asking:

• Why do we keep hurting each other with the same old words?
• Is it too late to undo the damage our language has caused?
• How do we actually talk to each other differently - not just want to?

This session gets honest about the wrecking-ball power of careless words — the name-calling, the threats, the casual use of "divorce" as a weapon - and what it costs a marriage over time. We share our own story of pulling the "For Sale" sign off our marriage: trading a contract mentality ("I'll do this if you do that") for a covenant mentality ("I'm here for the long haul, no matter what"). Using practical, easy-to-remember language swaps, we teach couples how to replace criticism with encouragement and complaints with solutions - turning words that wound into words that heal.

Attendees leave with a toolbox of phrases they can use that same night, and a renewed understanding that the tongue can either tear down a home or help rebuild it.