How to Love and Cherish Your Spouse

The Naked Marriage with Dave & Ashley Willis

XO Marriage

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Relationships

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to the Naked Marriage Podcast. We want to take it back to the basics and just go over some of the vows we all spoke to each other on our wedding day. We want to give you some practical tools and conversations to get back to the basics of our marriages truly. Join us as we explore "to love and to cherish," sharing personal insights and heartwarming stories. Tune in for practical tips and our top recommendations. ------------------ Order your copy of Married Into The Family Today: https://store.xomarriage.com/products/married-into-the-family For all links mentioned in the episode & more XO content, visit https://linktr.ee/nakedmarriage --------------------- Takeaways Renewing the vow to love and cherish is important in marriage. Love is not just a feeling, but an action that needs to be consistently shown. Cherishing involves valuing and investing in the marriage. Understanding and speaking each other's love languages is crucial in cherishing. ----------------------- Chapters 00:00 Introduction to the Vow Renewal Series 01:01 Exploring the First Line of Traditional Vows: To Love and to Cherish 02:26 Showing Love through Words and Actions 03:55 The Biblical Template for Love 05:20 Cherishing and Investing in the Marriage 06:41 The Importance of Intentionality in Cherishing 08:03 Story of Harold and Louise: Cherishing Lived Out 10:31 Consistency in Cherishing 13:44 Understanding and Speaking Each Other's Love Languages 19:45 The Importance of Learning and Fascination in Cherishing 20:15 Conclusion and Invitation to Continue Exploring the Vows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey friends, welcome to the Naked Marriage Podcast.
0:05.6	Dave and Ashley Willis here.
0:06.6	We're starting a new series today
0:08.8	where we're kind of going back to the basics
0:11.2	and looking at some of the wedding vows, kind of taking the vow one
0:14.4	of time and just really reminding ourselves what that means and so over the next few
0:18.5	weeks we hope that this is sort of a chance for a vow renewal of sorts for you and your spouse without having to spend the money
0:24.9	on doing a big ceremony. Just reminding each other of what these vows mean and kind of
0:29.3	find it a new way to make this promise to each other all over again. I remember back to our wedding day and our vows.
0:36.5	We wrote vows for each other, but before we got to those vows, we wrote for each other.
0:41.2	The pastor who was a friend of ours, you know, he asked this if we said I do to those
0:45.3	more traditional vows. Do you take one another to love and to cherish sickness and
0:49.8	and health for better or for worse, forsaking all others, tell death do his part, and we said, I do.
0:57.5	And that wasn't just a one-time vow, but in marriage it's one that needs to be renewed
1:01.8	often, both formally and informally, I believe.
1:04.7	And so coming back to those basics,
1:07.2	we're going to look at what's the very first line
1:09.9	of those traditional vows to love and to cherish.
1:14.6	What does that mean?
1:16.6	And how do we do it?
1:17.4	And I'll just say first, you are so easy to love and cherish.
1:19.8	Oh, you're easy to love and cherish.
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