Hello and thanks for joining us here on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Today we bring our series

called Awesome Relationships to a Close. This time around Pastor Rick Warren wraps up his

look at how to take your relationships with family, friends, co-workers and even God from

average to awesome. You don't want to miss a second of today's broadcast. Now in just

a little while, we're going to tell you how you can get the brand new set of 52 Bible

Verse memorization cards with verses that will help you strengthen your relationships. You

can find out more by going to PastorRick.com while you listen to today's message. That's

PastorRick.com, or you can connect with us by texting the word daily to 800-600-5,000-4.

This is the word daily to 800-600-5,000-4. Right now, here's Pastor Rick with a final

part of a message called, What destroys relationships and what builds them.

Now the Bible tells us, and even history and personal experience tells us, that opposites

attract. Opposites attract. And then when they get married, opposites attack. What

fascinates you now irritates you. This happens all the time. You see, when you are single and

you look out there and you see somebody that's not like you, that is fascinating. You know,

like a person who's kind of quiet, says, Look at that person, how boisterous, how loud,

how full of life and vivacious they are. And you find it attractive because it's not

like you. And so then you get in a relationship or you get married. And then after about a year,

you go, Do you have to be loud all the time? And it starts getting on your nerves, it starts

irritating you. And as I said, you attract and then you attack. I mean, if you have been

married at any point in your life, how many of you had unrealistic expectations in your

marriage? Can I see your hands? Yeah, the rest of your liars. Okay. It's true. It's a set

up for resentment. Now often, it's not the big things in life that make us resentful.

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