And marriage is brutal on selfish people.

Marriage is not about independence.

Marriage is about inner dependence.

If you want to be independent, stay single.

But even if you're single, you're not independent,

you need God.

We're dependent upon God.

Independence and selfishness destroys a marriage.

I'm Jimmy Evans, co-host of the Marriage Today podcast.

Today we have a great teaching for you that I pray

grows your marriage and blesses you

as you seek to center your marriage on Christ.

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God says to the church at Ephesus, there's fallen out of love with him. Remember where you fell

from, repent and do the deeds you did at first. When Karen and I fell out of love, the way we fell

back in love was very simple. We didn't have any emotions. We didn't like each other. We thought

that we had made a mistake and we were both very scarred in our marriage. But we began to do

what we did when we first fell in love. We began to pursue each other. First of all, I was sorry.

I hung up my golf clubs. We made each other first. We began to be together and work at the

relationship. Let me say this. Within several weeks, we were more in love than we'd ever been before.

They didn't take forever. Some people say they're out of love. I understand. We had no emotion in

our relationship except for negative emotions. Several weeks later, we were passionate about each other.

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