Hi, this is Jimmy Evans with Marriage Today. This podcast is dedicated to equipping families with the

teaching and tools they need to succeed. We hope you enjoy this episode and subscribe for more

marriage building content. Now, we are the only animals not created for dominance. We took a trip to

Africa. We spent three weeks in the bush in Africa about

12 or 14 years ago. And every animal group in Africa, every animal group, one of them dominates the

other. That's just simply the way they're made. But when God created mankind in Genesis 2,

there's never a reference to one being over the other.

That's the way God created them.

And in Ephesians 5, when the roles of marriage are explained in Ephesians 5, it begins in verse 21

by saying, submit to one another in the fear of Christ.

And then it tells women how to submit,

and then it tells men how to submit.

Karen and I never discuss who the boss of our marriage is,

because the boss of our marriage is Jesus Christ.

But when we began in marriage, I dominated Karen.

I had a very dominant personality,

and because of that, we had no intimacy.

We had a horrible marriage.

We had everything I'm gonna describe here

was Karen and me early in our marriage.

But we learned to overcome it, we learned to disarm it,

and now we have a wonderful marriage

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