Hi this is Jimmy and Karen Evans with marriage today. This podcast is dedicated to equipping families with the teaching and tools they need to succeed. We hope you enjoyed this episode and subscribe for more marriage building content and today we're talking about

demystifying marriage this is from the Four Laws of Marriage book and series that

do and also this teaching is coming up here in just a minute but Karen welcome

Welcome to the podcast.

Good to be here.

Good to add you here and we're going to talk for just a minute about the

demystifying marriage specifically about the law of priority.

Now the four laws of love come from Genesis chapter 2, verses 24 and 25, and it it begins this is when God created Adam and Eve and he said

for this cause a man will leave his father and his mother and so the leaving

means reprioritizing.

Marriage has to be number one, period, in real terms.

And if it's not number one,

then what happens is we begin to be jealous and resentful.

And a lot of the fights that we had early in our marriage,

golf was the biggest problem that I had.

But a lot of the fights people have a lot of times

is just simply because we're jealous of what has taken our place.

We fall in love because we prioritize each other.

But then we get married, we get lazy,

we begin to take each other for granted,

and we just begin a slow drift into bad habits and really taking each other for granted.

And then you begin to fight the husband many times resents the kids or you know his wife's parents or something,

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