Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com, and you're listening to the

Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for Women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

emotional and spiritual abuse.

Welcome to episode 8 of the Flying Free Podcast. Today it's just you and me and I am

really looking forward to being with you today. We are going to be talking about the key to a healthy marriage.

And this episode is actually based off of an article that I wrote for another blog and that article will not be published for

another month here and when it is published I'll actually put a link

underneath this podcast to that post so you can actually read it.

This podcast is going to be a little more involved because it's going to be me talking.

I am going to be going through the points that I wrote in that particular article, but I'll probably be saying a few more things too.

So yeah, I think this is a really important subject because many times women who have been in dysfunctional relationships for so long,

they don't really know what's healthy and what isn't.

And they've been told that, you know, well do that and all marriages have problems and you know and and

some of that's true you know there are some things that just you know marriages are not all easy. I'm remarried. My new marriage is

healthy but I can't say that it hasn't had its challenges. It has it has normal challenges though. There's a big difference between the

challenges that I'm having in a normal healthy relationship and the

challenges I wouldn't even call them challenges but the difficulties and the walls that I kept running

into in my prior marriage, which was very dysfunctional.

So here's the thing.

The key to a healthy marriage, this is really, what this is is it's the bedrock of a truly Christ-centered marriage, all right?

And it's one word, and that word is mutuality.

John 1722 and 23 says this, I gave them the glory you gave to me that they may be

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