Hi this is Jimmy Evans with Marriage Today. This podcast is dedicated to equipping

families with the teaching and tools they need to succeed. We hope you enjoy

this episode and subscribe for more Marriage Building content. Now we are the only animals

not created for dominance. We took a trip to Africa. We spent three weeks in the bush

in Africa about 12 or 14 years ago and every animal group in Africa.

Every animal group, one of them dominates the other.

They're just simply the way they're made. But when God

created mankind in Genesis 2 there's never a reference to one being over the

other. That's the way God created them. And in Ephesians 5, when the roles of marriage are explained in Ephesians 5,

it begins in verse 21 by saying,

submit to one another in the fear of Christ.

And then it tells women how to submit,

and then it tells men how to submit.

Karen and I never discuss who the boss of our marriage is

because the boss of our marriage is Jesus Christ. But when we began in

marriage I dominated Karen. I had a very dominant personality and because of

that we had no intimacy and we had a horrible marriage.

We had everything I'm going to describe here was

Karen and me early in our marriage.

But we learned to overcome it, we learned to disarm it, and now we have a wonderful marriage

where we share everything together.

Let me give you a definition of dominance when I talk about this.

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