Best of 2024: How to Experience Great Intimacy and Love in Your Marriage (Part 1 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Dave and Ashley Willis help husbands and wives rediscover God's design for a "naked marriage" - where they can be emotionally, spiritually and physically vulnerable and transparent with each other. They share their own love story and describe how “love is not enough” to sustain a lifelong marriage; couples need to commit to serving and sacrificing for each other. They also talk about dealing with the past, balancing marriage and motherhood, financial struggles, and being faithful "in sickness and in health."

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0:00.0	When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child, Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective.
0:09.6	He said, the first thing you need to realize is kids are a blessing, or all of the blessings, that they're gifts from God.
0:16.3	And the second thing you said was kids value relationships, not stuff.
0:20.5	Greg and his wife found the encouragement they needed, and today they have a happy,
0:24.6	thriving family of seven children.
0:27.6	We have been really influenced by the culture and by just kind of overall negativity about
0:34.1	kids, and to hear from someone, you know, just godly truth that kids are special,
0:42.0	that they're wanted and that they're a blessing was huge to us.
0:45.0	I'm Jim Daly, and we love kids. Let's work together to give more families hope, like Greg's.
0:51.4	When you donate today, your gift will be doubled at focus on
0:55.0	the family.com slash gift.
1:01.6	I think vulnerability in marriage is saying the things to your spouse that you don't even
1:06.8	really want to admit maybe to yourself, but sharing that anyway, sharing fears and stuff
1:10.6	about yourself that maybe is uncomfortable.
1:13.1	I think vulnerability and transparency means just being honest about everything.
1:18.8	I think it means you just don't keep secrets.
1:21.6	Regarding vulnerability, it's easier for me than him.
1:25.2	Well, I wonder if those comments describe your marriage.
1:28.3	I wonder if you feel like you can be open and transparent.
1:31.3	No secrets with your spouse.
1:33.2	Welcome to another Best of 2024 episode of Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.
1:38.1	Today we'll review how husbands and wives can experience greater vulnerability and intimacy and greater love in marriage. John, I can
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