After pasturing for over 35 years, I've heard the same thing over and over.

Why is married so hard?

I want you to know there are normal barriers that make it difficult and it's by the power

of Christ and understanding them that you can overcome them. Stay with

this

Chipp Ingram. Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

Living on the Edge is an international teaching and discipleship ministry focused on helping

Christians live like Christians.

Well in just a minute he'll pick up where he left off in our series experiencing God's

dream for your marriage with a

remainder of his message about the barriers that disrupt the intimacy in our

relationships. Last time, Chip unpacked the first one, spiritual issues.

Today he'll identify the remaining barricades

and how you and your spouse can break through them together. A lot of content to

get to so let's get started. Go to Genesis chapter 3 in your Bibles as we join Chip for part 2 of his talk.

The second barrier is psychological barrier and as you listen to that these are our personality differences and but as you as you listen to this I just want you to remember

the spiritual barrier so colors everything that boy I'll tell you

it makes all these others that just taints them.

Psychological barrier is our personality differences. I mean men, women, they're different but just people are different aren't't they? I mean, example, there's introverts and extroverts.

I mean, some people go to a party and want to meet everybody and someone goes to a party, finds a corner with one or two other people,

and they spend four hours there and they come

oh that was an awesome party and if you're an extrovert you going how could

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