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When we get married, especially if we're kind of a younger adult, we have a lot of

expectations of what our spouse should be and what being married is going to do for

us, but then there's kind of a reality check as time

goes on. And Greg, you've talked about your marriage and how that kind of surprised you and

Aaron. Share that again because I think it's really helpful

as we enter into this episode.

Well I think one of the funniest nutiest examples of this was when we got back from our honeymoon now we're living in our little

apartment Denver seminary in Colorado and I kept waking up ready for Aaron to cook breakfast like my mom did all those years.

And I never realized that honestly, John, because it was something that I thought that's what

what a wife would do to show her love. I never thought

about it or how it might come across and Aaron even said you seem kind of

strange your five days into our marriage and I just said well yeah I just I feel like

you're mad at me and she went what what why would you think I'm mad at you and I said

because you haven't been cooking breakfast so I just had put the two together you're

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