I think vulnerability in marriage is saying things to your spouse that you don't even really want to admit maybe to yourself

But sharing that anyway sharing fears and stuff about yourself that maybe is uncomfortable.

I think vulnerability and transparency means just being honest about everything.

I think it means you just don't keep secrets.

Regarding vulnerability, it's easier for me than him. I wonder if those comments describe your marriage. Do you feel like it can be open and transparent? No secrets with your spouse?

Today on focus on the family

we'll explore how husbands and wives

can experience greater vulnerability

and intimacy and love in marriage.

Thanks for joining us, your host is focused president and author Jim Daly and I'm John

Fuller. John I can already hear people going feelings. Oh no and they're like

let's go listen to some music right now but it's true and this is an area for me that's really difficult you know I think when Jean and I talk about this

You know being an orphan kid I learned to kind of just put it in a suitcase and deal with it right so there's those moments where she's going I need your heart in this discussion and I got to go find it sometimes that's hard do. It's just life can be easier if you just like lock it away and just get up and do the day and be done with it. I think men tend to lean in that direction. We compartmentalize so many things. That's why we're good at battle. We come back like the guys did from World War II and never talked about it.

We can do that. Women, no, they want to talk about it. They're you know fully integrated, they're two halves of their brains,

and we end up, you know, being a little isolated. So today we're gonna we're gonna

get into it because it'll make your relationship better. This is as much for me as it is for you.

And we're going to be covering unconditional love, which is something, I don't know, Jim, I struggle

with this.

I want to love my wife unconditionally, but I put stipulations and causes and I'm just a human,

a selfish guy and I'm trying, but it's hard.

Sounds like rules and regulations.

You are going to bring up the first point. No, I'm not.

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