Hi, I'm Jimmy Evans. This is my wife, Karen, and we welcome you to the Marriage Today podcast.

We exist, help every couple thrive in their marriage relationships.

Now, this podcast today will be the most important podcast on marriage you've ever listened to, promise.

We're talking about the most important

issue in marriage. And we're talking about my book, Marriage on the Rock, that really is our book

together. But we lived this. This is something that healed our marriage. But I want to talk to you

about, if you could just hear one message on marriage, this is the message you would need to listen to,

the one we're talking about today. But before we go into the teaching that we're going to go

into in just a second, we've got some questions from you guys. And let me read you the first question,

Karen. My wife says that I am not affectionate and I don't meet her emotional needs.

Can you help me understand how I can close that gap?

I grew up in an affectionless environment.

Well, this is the way you and I were.

Sure.

The only thing that, you know, I can say is communication is huge.

Yeah.

And even though you weren't that affectionate, you communicated well.

And that is just as important to me.

You know, just talk to me, you know, share your feelings.

Tell me what's going on, you know, your world.

And so I would say, you know, just stop with just that and just start communicating.

Yeah.

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