It's not the Instagram caption of the anniversary trip in Rome that makes marriage beautiful.

It's all of the hardship and hard work and faithfulness and attentiveness and sacrifice that allowed that moment to happen that makes marriage beautiful. Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson.

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All right, so today we get to talk about modern romance.

When you hear that term, what do you think?

Happiness.

Happiness, I think work.

It is actually work. I don't think we go into marriage thinking that it will be work because when we're dating romance is just such a key component in a relationship and so when you think of

working at it it feels counterintuitive like what what do you mean we have to work at

romance yeah well romance is where we're going to find out today.

We got Colin Outerbridge with us.

And Colin, I don't know if I want to call you Mr. Romance,

but you are passed who did a series on romance, right?

Yes, I wonder if my wife would call me Mr romance.

That's my goal.

My goal in life is just for her to call me Mr romance.

So, we're gonna ask her.

Yeah, sounds great. If you're Mr. Robins. Now you're a pastor of Nona Church here in Orlando area.

Tell us a little bit about your church. Yeah, Nona Church is a beautiful community, a multi-site church here in the city of Orlando.

We love serving our community and we've seen God do some really special things and helping people

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