As a newer bride, Kim Wagner longed to know that her husband loved her.

I remember in our early years of marriage riding in the car for trips and sitting there thinking,

why doesn't he hold my hand? Why won't he hold? He is so unaffectionate. He is so cold. He is so to himself.

If he loved me, wouldn't he want to reach out and hold my hand?

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014.

All this month, we're helping you get to know authors in the True Woman line of books.

This week, we're hearing Kim Wagner's story. She and her husband Leroy were working hard,

serving in the church where he was pastor. Yet their marriage was barely surviving.

Yesterday, Kim told us about the conviction God brought for the way she criticized her husband.

We'll pick up the story as Kim describes

meeting the host of Revive Our Hearts, Nancy Lee DeMoss.

So within that year, with my heart changing and attempting to change my treatment of him,

I became very frustrated, though, because it seemed like he was going even further into his cave.

And I thought, this is not, nothing's changing, nothing's improving.

And you and I had a conversation.

And I'm thankful that we had time that we spent together and you asked me some very tough questions. And our conversation,

Nancy, to me, it so validates the truth of Titus II that although you're not that much

older than me, although you've never been married.

The role of women that are further along spiritually in the spiritual growth process in sanctification is to come alongside younger women and women that need to have truth poured into their lives.

And we had a conversation one day where you asked me some very difficult questions and gave me

truth.

I remember the first question you asked me.

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