Timeless Wisdom: Thoughts on Marriage (Part 2)
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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On Today's Show: Dennis concludes his thoughts on marriage and relationships. He discusses the importance of not taking one's spouse's love for granted, and how giving each other freedom is essential in a healthy marriage. Dennis also talks about the concept of unconditional love, stating that it's not desirable for adults, but rather for little children.
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| 0:30.8 | Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. |
| 0:34.3 | Hear thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs, and to purchase Dennis Prager's Rational Bibles, go to Dennis Prager.com. |
| 0:49.3 | Number seven, and this is the most controversial one that I think that that I offer don't take your |
| 0:59.0 | spouse's love or even your spouse's fidelity for granted let me tell you a little about my |
| 1:06.9 | outlook on life on a subject that is very big in America, unconditional love. |
| 1:11.6 | I think unconditional love is for little children, period. |
| 1:15.6 | I don't think it's for adults. |
| 1:17.6 | I am not a fan of the concept, just like I'm not a fan of the concept of soulmate. |
| 1:24.6 | I think unconditional love is wildly exaggerated in its desirability and in its good. |
| 1:32.3 | I don't expect unconditional love for my wife. I would hope that she would have the self-respect, |
| 1:38.3 | in fact, that if I truly treated her in cruel ways, that that love would ultimately diminish. Of course. I can't, I don't |
| 1:47.7 | want to wake up every day anything. No matter how I act, she is just going to love me or that |
| 1:53.0 | she should feel that way. No matter how I act, he will love me. You didn't think that when |
| 1:57.5 | you were dating, why should it be true when you're married? You should never, ever, ever take your spouse for granted. |
| 2:04.6 | I see that. I believe I see that with many couples who let themselves go, who don't try to be the best spouse, the most attractive, |
| 2:12.7 | and by attractive, I mean it in hundreds of ways that they could be for their spouse. |
| 2:17.3 | Well, why not? |
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