Hi, I'm Jimmy Evans, co-host of the Marriage Today podcast.

Today we have a great teaching for you that I pray grows your marriage and blesses you

as you seek to center your marriage on Christ.

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God bless you.

I want to begin with a premise in this message and this is a very important premise in this

message.

We seek marriage for many reasons but one of the most important is that we are all

incomplete and unhealed and we're looking for a spouse to fix that.

Why do we choose the spouse that we choose?

It's because we're incomplete and unhealed and we're looking for a spouse to change that.

Karen and I dated and I think like most people date.

We fell in love.

I met Karen when we were sophomores at Tascos in high school and we were in sophomore biology

class together and I thought that she was very beautiful and I asked her out in May of

that year I asked her out to a three dog night concert.

How many of you remember three dog night?

Raise your hands and encourage me.

It's not the younger people that raise their hand.

It's the mature people like me.

But we went to a three dog night concert and we loved each other and so we dated for

a while but as soon as I secured the relationship with Karen I began to take her for granted and

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