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. And you can't thrive in marriage. We're talking

on this podcast today about indestructible love. How do you have a love? Because a lot

of people say they're in love with each other. And then not too long after that, they're

not in love with each other, you know. But how can you have a love that endures? And that's

what this program is about. And we're going to go to a teaching here in just a minute where

I'm teaching on this subject. But Karen, we're going to start with some questions from some

of our listeners. And let me read this to you. It says, my husband and I have been married

a bit over a year now. And I want to bring up the scary topic of kids. We have a very good

open communication type of relationship. But this one is so hard for me to bring up. I

think I'm worried he's not ready because life isn't perfect. Any suggestions on how to

breach this topic in a casual way without it being such a major moment.

Oh, it's so funny because she says I have open communication, but she can't talk about

it. It might be a problem. But no, seriously, I can understand, though, anything that's

difficult, you know, we feel that in that this is one of the reasons, I think, pre-married

counseling is so important. You know, for people out there that are still thinking about

getting married, you need to figure out these things before you even, you know, come to

the altar and have those discussions of how many children, you know, where are we going

to live? What's our religion? All the different stuff. And so with this, it's just children.

I mean, the Lord says they're a blessing. And so, you know, look at it from the perspective

of, you know, I'm going to trust God that, you know, he wants me to have children. If

he wants me to have children, then when it's time for us to have children, my husband and

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