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I think my core need as an introvert is to get some alone time with a book and a nice cup of coffee.

I need every day to do some kind of physical activity and get some exercise in.

The greatest need in my life is sleep. I would say one of my core needs in addition to coffee is just medication.

I mean having an autoimmune disease, I would literally be dead if this technology didn't exist.

One of my greatest core needs in my marriages to be liked.

Well, how about you? Do any of those comments resonate with you or are you looking for something different?

On today's focus on the family will explore this concept of needs and how we try to meet them, sometimes in healthy or unhealthy ways.

Your host is focus president and author Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller.

I suppose if we asked our listeners to make a list of their needs, the options would be endless because, boy, my need for a donut is guy high.

You know, we're generally needy people. That's the way we come into this world. That's the way we go out.

And there are things we'd like to have or would like to change in our lives throughout our lives.

I mean, how many times I, if I could just lose a few more pounds, right?

On the other hand, I'm sure we'd find a lot of similarities on these lists, the a lot of commonality, things like happiness, success, maybe most importantly being loved.

Who doesn't want those things? We all do at our core. And these needs are common to the human experience.

And as we're going to learn today from our great guest, being needy is part of God's design.

He wants us and has built us for a relationship where we can do something to meet one another's needs in that way.

And sometimes we forget that in a very solitary culture like ours has become.

I'm excited to talk about this. So man, pull up a chair, get a tea or coffee or donut to dip in.

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