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I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith.

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Today, in continuation of our mini series on three ways to make time for your spouse, we're going to be talking about way number two, which is

praying together routinely. So Dr. Kim, when we say routinely, how often are we talking here?

I would love to see couples to do it at least once a day. I mean, just for that becomes,

and I think the routine is a really good word, and not to become just something you check off as a box,

but I think the thing, you know, you brush your teeth every day. I mean, and there's benefits from

that. When you go to the dentist, you know, it doesn't take them forever, you get the plaque and

dirt out of your teeth because you've been brushing every day and flossing every day. I mean, I think it's a, that's probably not a great comparison. But

praying every day, build something in your marriage and doing that every day. Six months,

you're going to think, wow, look what's happened in our marriage since then and continue to do that

over and over. But I think it's something we, the consistency of it is very, very, very important.

Yeah, I agree. I think I think daily is important at least once a day because it really,

it has to be daily for it to be a regular part of your routine. And I think when it's a part of

your daily routine, it's harder to forget about it and to not do it. Whereas, you know,

if you only did it once a week or every other day,

it would be really easy to miss that every other day that you're supposed to do because it's not

part of your daily routine, but things that are part of your daily routine are going to get

actually done. It's like, yeah, like I try to work out three times a week, but I can't tell you

how many times it only happens once. But if I did it every day, it would happen a lot more often, you know,

and it would be harder to break that routine if it was a daily routine.

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