Why Emotional Health Matters for Your Marriage: Dave & Ashley Willis

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🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Why's emotional health a big deal in marriage? Bestselling authors Dave & Ashley Willis share their story--and how vulnerability became their game changer.

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0:00.0	being mentally healthy, and what's happening in our mind is one of the easiest things to hide from our spouse.
0:07.0	But if we hide what's happening in our minds and hearts from one another, really it creates a wedge in the marriage where God wants instead there to be a bridge where we can share all of it and bear one another's burdens.
0:19.3	And so the depth of your honesty really determines the
0:22.5	depth of your intimacy.
0:30.2	Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.
0:35.5	I'm Ann Wilson. And I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at familylifet today.com.
0:40.9	This is Family Life Today.
0:46.6	So we don't often talk about 1999 in our marriage.
0:55.7	Oh, 1999.
0:57.5	Oh, 1999.
0:58.2	Ooh.
0:58.9	Yeah.
0:59.1	It was one of the tougher years.
1:01.7	Mm-hmm.
1:01.9	Why?
1:03.4	I lost my very best friend to cancer.
1:06.9	And it was my sister.
1:08.4	She's my best friend.
1:09.4	She led me to Jesus.
1:11.3	She died of, gosh, I get teary talking about it.
1:14.6	She died of lung cancer.
1:16.2	My parents had never smoked and she never did.
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