We're taking some time to talk about relationships and we're in a series of messages that's really dedicated and given over to that subject

because we cannot improve our relationships if we don't take time to work on them, take time to study them, take time to talk on them.

We'll take them for granted and eventually intrepule set in.

And kind of the big idea is this, something going wrong in a relationship does not necessarily mean something's wrong with the relationship.

That's a big idea that's kind of at the heart of why we would take time to work on our relationships.

Because something going wrong in a relationship

does not automatically mean that something's wrong with the relationship.

It just means that we need to work on it. It just means that that should be

evidence to you when one of the

relationships in your life has a problem. That should be evidence to you that

there's some assembly that's required here and you might not have realized that

work needed to be done. So something goes wrong with it.

Don't automatically throw the relationship out

or give up on it.

That's what so many people do.

But that's like taking back an unassembled piece of furniture

that's still in the box, taking it back to the store and

complaining that it didn't do what they advertised it would do for you.

It didn't work so I'm going to trade it out for a new one.

Listen, the new one's going to have the same problems as the old one if you're

not willing to work on it.

If you just give it up at the first time of difficult, something must be wrong with

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