The word that I have then for every believer is your marriage may not be what you want it to be and it may never be what you had hoped it to be.

But that doesn't mean that what you're doing in that marriage is a waste. In fact, you, because of the difficulties,

can do marriage even better than you would have done it had you been in a perfect marriage.

You can be this loving person because you're loving Christ, you can be this

respectful person because you're reverencing Christ, and there will come a day

when the Lord Jesus will say well done good and faithful servant.

Welcome to the Experience Jesus Calling Podcast.

Dr Emerson Eggrich is an internationally known public speaker on the topic of male-female relationships.

Dr Eggrich and his wife Sarah topic of male-female relationships.

Dr. Eggrich and his wife Sarah developed the Love and Respect Conference,

which they present to live audiences around the country.

My name is Emerson Eggrich, and my wife Sarah and I have been doing the love and respect marriage conferences since 1999.

I also wrote a book called Love and Respect for the Married and we have been on a wonderful journey serving couples across the country

and around the world and very grateful for the privilege of doing this. I was born in Pure Illinois, grew up there until age 13,

which time my mom felt that I needed to be sent to a military school.

So from age 13 to 18, I attended Missouri Military Academy.

And the backstory on that is that my mom and dad divorced each other when I was one.

They remarried each other a year or two later,

realizing that divorce was not the remedy.

But then they separated for five or six years and then

came back together when I was in the third grade. The issues that they had obviously spilled over and affected me,

and I think that was one of the reasons that mom felt I needed to go to military school

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