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It\u2019s been three years since Christian artist Meredith Andrews has put out new music but her latest album Deeper<\/em> may just be her most personal yet.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the two-time Dove Award winning singer was writing the record while in the trenches of one of the most difficult seasons of her eight-year marriage to husband Jacob Sooter. The pair, who have three children and teamed up to write songs for Deeper, found themselves at a crossroads in their relationship just one year ago.<\/p>\n

Stress from adding two babies to their family, moving from their home base of Chicago to Nashville and the demands of Andrews\u2019 music career had the couple questioning whether they would actually be able to make \u201chappily ever after\u201d work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were days when I was like \u2018I don\u2019t even know who you are\u2019 and he would say the same thing about me,\u201d Andrews shares with Guideposts.org. \u201cThere was some brokenness and hurt in our past that we never really dealt with.\u201d<\/p>\n

They reached their breaking point just a few days before Valentine\u2019s Day last year. Contemplating spending time apart and fresh from a fight that morning, Andrews received a call from her husband, asking her to meet him for a lunch date at Whole Foods. She was greeted with flowers and a proposition \u2013 a weekend getaway to reconnect as a family. Sooter had planned everything, booking a cabin in Tennessee and canceling her scheduled worship talk at a church in Chicago.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, \u2018I\u2019m not going to lose my family,\u2019\u201d Andrews recalls. \u201cHe was like, \u2018let\u2019s just go away and remember why we are family and why we love each other.\u2019 That was the turning point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Old wounds didn\u2019t miraculously heal over night. Andrews says the couple had to unlearn how they treated each other in the past.<\/p>\n

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They leaned on friends and family for support, speaking with leaders in their church and eventually making the decision to go to counseling, something the singer admits they should\u2019ve done much earlier.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing to counseling was just like hitting the reset button for us,\u201d Andrews says.<\/p>\n

She thinks it\u2019s something every married couple should do, whether you\u2019re going through a rough patch or not.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing is, we waited until we were on life support to go to counseling. We should have gone to counseling when everything was fine,\u201d she says. \u201cGranted, the Lord used everything that we walked through but for anybody else, save yourself some heartache and just go to counseling as a preventative measure.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also wants couples to know that the idea of a \u201cperfect marriage\u201d is just another harmful image fed to us by the media.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe picture we get from our culture is not a picture of real love,\u2019 Andrews says. \u201cIt\u2019s \u2018infatuation\u2019 or it\u2019s \u2018you make me happy\u2019 when in reality, relationships are meant to make us holy. They pull out the best and the worst in us.\u201d<\/p>\n

She\u2019s also learned that saying \u201cno\u201d is sometimes the best thing she can do for her family.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was wrestling with something inside of me that felt the need to say yes to everything,\u201d Andrews says. \u201cWhatever I\u2019m giving my \u2018yes\u2019 to, I\u2019m giving my \u2018no\u2019 to my family. The last three years especially the Lord has been showing me what it means to be healthy and be able to say \u2018no\u2019 when I need to say no so I that I can give my best yes, my sacred yes [to my family].\u201d<\/p>\n

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Now happily on the other side, Andrews hopes Deeper<\/em> can help other couples struggling with some of the same issues that once plagued her own marriage.<\/p>\n

Every valley made me lift my eyes up\/Every burden only made me stronger\/Every sorrow only made Your joy go\/Deeper and deeper, deeper, and deeper<\/em>, are the lyrics to the title track she wrote with her husband, and a testament to the couple\u2019s newfound strength.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe these songs are gifts to us just to carry us through,\u201d the singer says. \u201cJust to get us a step further down the road and give us hope in the midst of those hard seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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