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When I start to look to David, to bring me all my joy or to be the one who sees me first, he's amazing.

And he does see me really well so much of the time when I let him see

what's there. But he isn't Jesus. And he wasn't made to meet those places in me the way that

the Lord can. Welcome to Family Life today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Dave Wilson.

And I'm Ann Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLife Today.com.

This is Family Life Today.

I'm excited that David and Meg Robbins are back with us today.

We got into some heavy stuff yesterday. We got into some deep stuff that we're going to get into even more today.

Yeah, so let's go.

Yeah, this was, you know, just five or six years ago where we were experiencing a significant wedge in our marriage while, and we feel like we were getting further and further apart while we were leading family life.

I mean, this is, you know, a real-time thing.

And it was just all these little things that just kept adding up.

You know, we had molding our home, pushing us out.

We had things happening with our parents.

But I said, you know, because we were feeling emotionally distant, you know, and I said,

I just feel like that I keep handing you this rose of here's how I'm really doing.

This is like a reflection of my heart.

I'm trying to let you in. Which is fragile. Which is fragile, yes. And I'm giving it to you. And in the moment, you are so attuned to me. You're listening. You're asking me questions. And I feel like we are connecting. And I feel so seen and, you know, it's reciprocal. And then it's like you look at it and you set it over here and it just kind of drop it over on the side of the bed. And then, you know, later I hand you a new one and same thing. It's like they just are followed. There's a whole pile of dead roses over there on the side. You're not picking them back up or putting them in any water, revisiting the rose.

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