Sheldon and Valerie Dean married in Osler, SK in 2001. Being high school sweethearts they thought this whole marriage thing was going to be easy — and forgot to listen in their pre-marriage counselling classes. Before joining FamilyLife Canada Valerie was a Registered Nurse and Sheldon worked in the business world while also refereeing in the Western Hockey League.
Recently they have started canoeing together and it has been great to be able to work on communication as they navigate rapids. Well... the rapid part is more like riffles and they’re working up to actually getting in the same canoe together. They’ll keep you posted on how that works out. They have three children and host the Marriage Talk podcast from FamilyLife Canada.