Hi, I'm Jimmy Evans. This is my wife Karen. We welcome you today to the Marriage Today podcast.

We're talking about marriage and we exist to help every couple thrive in their marriage relationship.

We're talking now in this series of programs on Marriage on the Rock. This was the first book that I ever

wrote, the first marriage conference I ever did was Marriage on the Rock. We're talking about the

four foundational laws of marriage. Critical, this is what saved our marriage. This is today.

This is the foundation of our marriage relationship. And specifically, in this program,

we're talking about the first law of marriage, which is the law of priority.

Marriage has to be first.

And we're going to go to that teaching in just a minute.

But we're going to begin, Karen, with some questions from our viewers.

This one asks, my husband is always on social media or reading news articles.

I even have to ask him to put the phone down when we talk.

I've told him this bothers me, but nothing changes. Yeah, you need to go to counseling.

You really do. I mean, I think that she's, technology is a wonderful servant. It's a terrible

master. And people get addicted to it. Her husband's addicted to it.

And so when you're always, when something's always in front of you, it violates the law of priority.

The law of priority, God said for this cause, a man will leave his father and mother and cleave it to his wife.

You leave, you have to, there has to be a reprioritizing.

Leaving your parents doesn't mean you abuse them or forsake them. It just means they're not first any longer. And so when your spouse sits

down with you and they're trying to connect, connection is essential. And research finds the harder it

is for couples to connect, the higher their divorce rate goes up. So she's sitting there trying to connect to him. He won't connect. He's, I mean, first of all, is there, is he mad at you? You know, is there an anger issue there? Is he being passive-aggressive? And so I think that, that I would say to your husband, let's go get marriage counseling, because there's something wrong. There is something wrong.

And I had a couple that came to me, a really good couple, really nice Christian couple, and they came to me for counseling. And her, this was years ago when the blackberries were big. And she says

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