Welcome to Marriage Day podcast. I'm Jimmy Evans. This is my wife, Karen. And this podcast

exists to help every couple thrive in marriage. We're glad that you've joined us. We're

talking today, Karen, about I changed my mind. This is a series of messages talking

about changing our thinking. Okay. And this program today is about our attitude, the importance

of our attitude. Now this is, and this is the truth now, and I've been preaching for

40 years. If I could only bring three messages, this would be one of them. Your attitude

determines your success in life more than any other issue, any other issue. And so we're

talking about attitudes and marriage, your attitude dramatically affects whether you're

going to succeed or fail. Okay. So we're going to talk about that. I think we have some

questions. Let me read one to you first. This is from our listeners. My wife and I have

been married for 16 years. And sometimes we don't feel like I'm married a couple anymore,

but just feel like we're roommates. How can we break this cycle and feeling? Well, I think

every couple goes through this. I mean, you get in a rut, same thing, routine, working,

coming home, eating, sleeping. And I think for you and I, what helps is we get out of the routine.

We get step out like, you know, we started going to the gun range or we go to movies. And you

know, like you always say, date night is so important. And you know, you just find little things.

I mean, little things mean a lot. You know, like sometimes I'll just say, hey, let's go see

on the back porch tonight. And you know, just if you get out of those ruts, you know, it's a simple

simple fix, you know, just be creative and just find new ways. Yeah. And it's just how can we

break the cycle and feeling? Because when you just keep the same cycle going, it's going to

produce the same feeling. And so the other thing is caring that what we did for many years is

when I was super busy and when our kids were teenagers, every six weeks to two months, we

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